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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