PDP says Tinubu’s ‘retirees’ club’ dig at IBB and Obj was a clever indirect message to Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the advice by the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, to former president Olusegun Obasanjo and former head of state, Ibrahim Babangida ,to retire from politics and join the retirees’  club, was better directed at President Muhammadu Buhari.

The party argued that Tinubu’s position completely vindicates the take of Obasanjo and Babangida, the PDP as well as majority of Nigerians, “who hold that President Buhari  should not seek re-election in 2019, having failed in governance and nation-building.”

The PDP further stated that President Buhari ought to step aside due to his inability to connect with the social and economic realities and speed of the current generation.

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The PDP, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday, in Abuja, said Tinubu was indirectly passing a message to President Buhari and his supporters on the fact that their candidate no longer enjoyed mass support among Nigerians ahead of the 2019 general elections.

Ologbodiyan said, “Every discerning Nigerian has discovered the fact that Asiwaju 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 Asiwaju 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 characterized 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.”

 

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