Peoples Democratic Party leader in Lagos State, Chief Bode George, has said that national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will never be like the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo no matter how much he wears Awo’s caps and the round glasses.
George, while addressing journalists during a meeting with beneficiaries of a scheme by the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi, said “People like papa Lateef Jakande, General Mobolaji Johnson would be spinning wherever they are. Tinubu said he did a one-million-man march but that it is a joke.
“For 16 years they (APC) took us to a bridge that led us nowhere and now we are looking for the road to freedom because they have taken us to a point that future generations will not forgive them for.
“Papa Awolowo did so much for the Western region and the nation’s education and that is why every March 6, we remember him. The hood does not make a monk. He (Tinubu) started wearing round glasses, wearing papa’s caps and raising two fingers but he has forgotten the two fingers now.”
On the use of card readers during elections, Bode George said the elections are too strategic for any experimentation.
“It is brilliant to use the card reader but has it been tested? The trial was just done on March 7 and we were to hold election on February 14. So, if we did not cry out, we would have gone to election like that?
“We don’t want violence but violence begets violence. If you put in place all the apparatus and everything needed, there will be no violence but if people get there that day and they cannot vote, people will grab the INEC persons there and beat them up. This election is very strategic and will determine the future of this country.
“These elections are too strategic and we cannot afford any experimentation.”
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