2023: Tinubu Hits Obi, Says Abdullahi Adamu will Deliver APC

2023: Tinubu Hits Obi, Says Abdullahi Adamu will Deliver APC

By Kabir Akintayo

In what looks like a subtle dig aimed at the Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Wednesday said he and his running mate will not reel out fake figures and statistics to deceive Nigerians the way some candidates do.

Obi is often criticised for his alleged obsession with figures, and he has been fact-checked a couple of times and found to have issued wrong statistics in television interviews and campaign outings.

Tinubu was in the secretariat in the company of his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima; Head of the Campaign Council, Simon Lalong; Secretary, James Faleke, and the Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, to attend the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) meeting and present the campaign structure to leaders.

He denied rumours that he was having problem with the national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, adding that the latter would deliver victory to the party at all levels.

He said: “To the rumour manufacturers, I read in some papers about disagreement between myself and the chairman and that was a very big lie. They didn’t know that we have come a long way. The big masquerade dances not in the cage but in the market square.

“And that is what Adamu used to be, full of wisdom, we were governors together, before God put us together on this project again. He is going to deliver as the Chairman of the party for me to become the President of Nigeria. And I am very confident of that.

“They can say whatever they want to say, throw all the jabs that they want, we are a party strongly determined to fulfil our dreams of turning Nigeria to a very progressive, highly developed, prosperous country.

“What we came here today to do is to discuss the campaign which is few days away. When INEC will lift the ban, how do we work out the details, work together, implement all we have been saying,  who are the members of the campaign council, who will not be members, and I beg you not to be angry if you are left out because we are going to give you another responsibility. Not every member here can be a member of the presidential campaign council.

“We are not threatened. We are committed and we are very proud of ourselves, we are orderly in our approach, we are committed to democratic principles and values; we are not bickering in any way and you know that. Can you say that of the other parties? We are not spewing fake statistics and wrong figures, can you say that of other parties? Well, we are what we are, a progressive party.”