The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has an “entitlement mentality” and is therefore not suited to lead the world’s most populous black nation.
According to the main opposition party, the Nigerian president should be a visionary leader with the requisite skill set and patriotic passion for people and not someone with selfish motives pursuing the top job with desperation.
Spokesperson of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organization, Kola Ologbondiyan, said this in a Tuesday statement.
Ologbondiyan asserted that from “Tinubu’s persistent self-centered assertions, haughty claims, annexation and brazen entitlement messaging, which he further displayed during his interaction with stakeholders in Kaduna on Monday, it is clear that the APC Presidential Candidate is being driven by the lust to appropriate the nation as his personal estate and not for the national interest.
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“Nigerians watched with utter dismay as Tinubu, as usual, avoided questions and discussions on critical and imperative national issues, which confirms that he is in the Presidential race for reasons other than the wellbeing of Nigerians.
“The APC Presidential Candidate has not been forthcoming on issues of transparency, accountability and answerability in government, devolution of power, state police, federal character and other key issues that will enhance democratic tenets for the benefit of Nigerians; a development that further confirms a selfish intention against the inclusive interest of our nation.
“Perhaps this explains why the APC Presidential Candidate has not composed a campaign organization; a foretaste of exclusionist agenda.
“Even his proposed economic policies were generalised without addressing the specific problems of galloping inflation and its attendant unbearable rising costs, unemployment, high interest rates and the abysmally low purchasing power of Nigerians.”
Ologbondiyan said Nigerians must therefore resist such tendencies as any government built on what the APC Presidential Candidate ostensibly represents would amount to creating a fiefdom for a self-conceited ruler over Nigeria.
He said never in the national history have Nigerians seen a politician with this level of self-entitlement.
“It is laughable that since he became the APC Presidential Candidate, Tinubu has sought for endorsement under every guise forgetting that 2023 election is a referendum against the mass failures of the APC in governance.
“Nigerians must note that it will be a disaster for our country, Nigeria, if we allow a Presidential Candidate that will ‘alphabetize’ our revenue generating agencies such as Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Plc among others to take over the reign of governance,” he said.