Bola Tinubu, chieftain of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), has taken a swipe at Atiku Abubakar, presidential
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), over his history of changing
political parties.
Since he joined politics, Atiku
has been a member of the APC, Social Democratic Party (SDP) and PDP.
Speaking on Tuesday at a national
consultative forum organised by the national committee of Buhari Support Groups
in Abuja, Tinubu said Atiku “has more party membership cards to build a house”.
The APC chieftain said: “I give
you one message for them and there will be many such messages. Their candidate
who is supposed to beat Buhari, has been in our party and many other parties.
He has more party membership cards to build a house.
“All you have to do is to go out
there and tell him that a house built on cards will be collapsed with a single
stroke of broom. He said they are reformed, but reformed what? Reformed PDP.
No. Tell them as you go out that we accept the admission of guilt that they
were vagabonds before and now being reformed.
“But they have not served enough
probation. You can only be reformed if you are an ex-convict, a drug addict or
a political prostitute. It is because Buhari has no temperament and no
tolerance for corruption, he is vigorously ridding the nation of blemish and
looting, bad reputation.
“They are busy changing parties
and that is why they are confused. Atiku is now PDP Aladdin. He is going to
create 14 million jobs and I say how? They will turn Atlantic into fuel to
crash the prices without the refineries working and the population is expanding
and people must move around. He just talked of crashing the prices of fuel.
They are lying again because a leopard cannot change its skin.
“They had 16 billion of
unprecedented resources and yet, they didn’t bring power to Nigeria. They
invested that money in their personal industries. They bought turbines from General
Electric and did not add one pipeline to bring gas to the plant.
“They can say anything now about
Buhari. I agree with Okonjo-Iweala that it is difficult to fight corruption.
The agents of destruction are there fighting us, but We will win with strong
determination.
“Don’t let them weep things under
the carpet – that when we came in as a government, before then they had too
much resources in their hands, but Buhari funded states to pay salaries. In
that period, 27 states were unable to pay salaries as at May 2015. The states
and local economy would have collapsed long time ago.
“If PDP members truly love this
country, they should humbly step aside and allow Buhari continue with the work
of addressing the ills of our nation. However, since they seem to obstruct and
remain focused as applicants, we say no job for them.”
Tinubu said Nigerians will
certainly re-elect Buhari in February 2019, noting that it is a task that must
be achieved.
The former Lagos governor also
criticised Senate President Bukola Saraki over his defection to the PDP,
describing him as a dishonest person.
He said Saraki “used our mandate
to negotiate and give lifeline to the opposition”.
Tinubu added: “How can he now ask
us to vote for PDP? He left the PDP, joined us, got elected, got our mandate,
our majority and sold it for a pot of pottage. God is honest; Saraki is not.”
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