The Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, has asked the President, Muhammadu Buhari to heed the advice of the
leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, that Nigeria’s
ex-presidents should quit politics and join the ‘retirees’ club’.
The party in a statement by
its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on its official Twitter
handle on Wednesday said the former Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu has
”weighed Buhari and found him not fit to remain in office beyond 2019.”
The APC leader, reacting to
statements by two former leaders, Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, who
recently advised President Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019, said they
should join what he called the retirees’ club and collect pensions.
Mr. Tinubu said this on
Tuesday while addressing State House correspondents after he and a former
interim chairman of the party, Bisi Akande, met with the president at the
Presidential Villa, in Abuja.
The PDP’s statement reads
in part:
“Every discerning Nigerian
has discovered the fact that Tinubu is subtly passing a critical message to
President Buhari and his supporters that he should not contest the 2019
election and that Nigerians have already moved on even without them.
“Even Tinubu knows that
President Buhari, for obvious reasons, is the most qualified of all our elder
statesmen to join the retiree’s club and save the nation the agony of more
years of misrule characterised by untold economic hardship, heavy bloodletting
and general indignation.
“The supporters of
President Buhari should therefore accept the reality by reading the handwriting
on the wall and heed wise counsel from well-meaning Nigerians.
“In any case, the APC is
already on a death throe, having led the worst government in the history of our
nation and will end up as the first party in government at the centre that will
be rejected by Nigerians at a second attempt.”
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