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Sunday 1 March 2015

APC, PDP Bicker Over Alleged Tinubu-Osinbajo Pact




The All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked claims by the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO) that its national leader and former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu plans to become Vice president through the back door.
The party in a statement issued in London on Saturday by its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made available to journalists, said the allegation of the Jonathan Campaign Organisation was designed to divert attention from the runaway success of the APC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, at the Chatham House in London last Thursday.
Recall that the director of media and publicity of the PDPPCO, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, on Friday while addressing journalists in Abuja, accused Tinubu of trying to seize presidency by subterfuge should the APC win the presidential election.
But the APC said the PDP and the Jonathan administration still do not have any answer to what has now become an epochal moment that has separated the wheat from the chaff, insisting that its presidential candidate’s globally-acclaimed outing has presented Nigerians and indeed the global community, with a choice between a bumbling, ineffective, incoherent, clueless, visionless and incompetent president and an assertive, knowledgeable, dignified, purposeful and principled president-in-waiting.

‘’Having failed to discredit that outing with a rented crowd, some of whom confessed to have been paid to carry placards they do not even understand, the PDP and the Jonathan administration have now resorted to making nauseating claims that are totally untrue, absolutely incomprehensible and nothing but sheer bunkum,” Mohammed said in the statement.
The APC further described the claim as the latest in a series of desperate moves by the PDP and the Jonathan administration since the emergence of Gen. Buhari as the APC presidential candidate, and the clearest indication yet that they have no answer to the unstoppable momentum of a man of history, noting that they have thrown everything imaginable at Gen. Buhari but he has continued to wax stronger and stronger.
“They said he was not qualified, that he was too old, and then they fabricated a medical report of an illness of their own choice, sponsored death wish adverts against him and instituted a myriad of court cases to stop him. After they failed to stop him, they went after the election itself, using the PVCs as a tool to launch a campaign for postponement and when they realised that would not work, came up with the bogey of insecurity in the North-east to force a postponement of the election, hoping they can buy enough time to revive their electoral misfortune. With everything working against them, they engaged in a show of shame at The Chatham House that backfired badly, on the heels of their bare-faced lies that Gen. Buhari was hospitalised in London. The preposterous claim of a secret oath – reminiscent of what they do in their own party – by the apparently ailing spokesman of the Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, is their latest desperate act,’’ the party said.
Via - Leadership

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