Why Tinubu Is Far Better Than Atiku, Obi – Keyamo
By Kabir Akintayo
Minister of State, Labour and Employment, and the spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo (SAN) has said that Aiswaju Bola Ahmed remains candidate to beat come 2023.
Keyamo said, out of all the Presidential aspirants contesting for 2023 election, Tinubu is the only candidate that has not defect from one political party to another.
While commending the APC Presidential aspirant, Tinubu, during an interviwew with Vanguard Newspaper, he said, if not for Asiwaju, Nigeria would have become a one party state, adding that, as a former governor of Lagos state, he laid the foundation of Lagos progress and development.
“None of the candidates across the 14 political parties that are contesting for the office of the President can stand anywhere close to Tinubu in terms of performance and track record and this is verifiable. Asiwaju is the only reason why we don’t have one party State. If not for Asiwaju, perhaps Nigeria will be one-party State.
“By the time PDP wiped out all the States from the South of Nigeria almost parts of Nigeria and could not penetrate Lagos because of Tinubu’s resistance and the whole world stood up for Tinubu because he was the underdog. The world applauded Tinubu because he refused all federal forces and won. At that point, the PDP on a platform of gold wooed Tinubu to come over and for him not to go through any stress, it would have been easier and better for him to go over to PDP.
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“There was no need for him go through that stress because he was looking at 2007, don’t forget that was the 2003 tsunami that happened and for anybody, he would have been afraid that he will not be able to produce a successor in Lagos State because they were coming for him. That was when PDP went to bring Obanikoro against Tinubu and he was backed by all the forces available. He refused to back down and won Lagos with unknown Fashola against a political heavyweight like Obanikoro with Bode George and the rest. Tinubu began to fight back from Lagos, the rest is history.
“But that singular act by Tinubu is why we have a very healthy democracy today of two strong competing parties today. PDP is a strong party, APC is a strong party. It is that singular act of a man that refused to give in. Let us give it to Tinubu, that is track record. The other candidate, once they find it hot in one party, they jump to the other. I am not abusing them, it is a fact. Tinubu has never, all he did was to change nomenclature and start building and continue to accommodate others. He will do, he will merge and begin to build his base. He has never abandoned any platform, he continues to metamorphose and continue to build.
“The other candidates, you want to compare their character and democratic credentials to this man? Obi jumped from APGA to PDP. Instead of him to build the platform Ojukwu left behind for him. Atiku’s is the worst ever. From PDP to AC, ACN back to PDP, PDP to APC, from APC back to PDP, all his search for selfishness. That alone stands Tinubu out, nobody comes close to him in the entire country, in terms of his character and democratic credential,” Keyamo said.
