Bola Tinubu
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola
Tinubu, has described ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo as one of the
“expired leaders” that should have retired to his Ota Farm and
remain quiet.
He boasted that if the association of persons he described as
“angry old men” refuses to vote Buhari, he’ll still get 95% of
votes.
Speaking at Ramat Square Complex, Maiduguri, Borno State on
Monday during President Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential campaign,
Tinubu said, “It is unfortunate that expired leaders like Olusegun
Obasanjo is ranting and lying. Don’t trust him.
“We are sweeping all the cobwebs of corruption away with broom
out of Nigeria. Ota Farm should be enough a retirement place for
Obasanjo.”
Delving into the 16-year administration of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Tinubu said, “Who among Nigerians will recall how
the PDP government under Obasanjo had been notorious for rigging
elections.
“No government has upheld the tenets of democracy like the
government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“We asked for the recognition of June 12 from Obasanjo, he
refused; but President Muhammadu Buhari, as an honest man with
integrity, heard our cry and recognised June 12.
“Even if the Forum of Association of Angry Old Men refuses to
vote for Buhari, we will give him 95 percent votes.”
In his speech at the campaign, APC chairman, Comrade Adams
Oshiomhole, said Obasanjo’s “attack” was done “out of frustration”
when he said that the South-South which used to be the stronghold
of PDP had “caught the Buhari fever.”
He said Obasanjo was “unsettled” when he saw what happened in
Delta State during the APC campaign there, and “hurriedly went to
the toilet for five times due to running stomach.”
Oshiomhole asaid: “The people writing epistle now watched how
money meant for security was appropriated by not only the PDP but
Generals.
“Under their watch, over 20 local government areas of Borno
State was taken over by the Boko Haram terrorists before the coming
of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Today, no matter what they want to say, there is no local
government where Boko Haram is hoisting their flag. All the 27
local government areas of Borno have been liberated by APC
government.”
When the turn of the Director General of Buhari/Osinbajo
Campaign Organisation and the Minister of Transport, Rotimi
Amaechi, came, he said that under the PDP government, his security
details were withdrawn as a result of “impunity.”
He added that due to the PDP’s “rigging formula,” votes did not
count in South South during election, and that election results
were based on party’s wishes.
In his remarks, the Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima,
assured President Muhammadu Buhari of over two million votes from
Borno State.
“We in Borno don’t know any other party than the APC. Allah
brought President Muhammadu Buhari to deliver people of Borno from
the hands of our oppressors.
“By the grace of Allah, come February 16th, 2019, if we are not
the first highest voters for you, we will be the second.”
President Muhammadu Buhari who addressed the crowd in Hausa
thanked them for their support and restated the commitment of his
administration to the fight against corruption, insecurity, and
improvement of the economy if re-elected.