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Politics Updated: February 01, 2023

2023: APC Speaks Following Tinubu's Attack On Buhari's Administration

By Sydney Elike
February 01, 2023
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The All Progressives Congress Campaign Council has issued a statement following the verbal tirade on the federal government by its presidential candidate Bola Tinubu.

Tinubu had lashed out at President Muhammadu Buhari's administration while addressing supporters at the APC presidential campaign rally in Calabar, Cross River State on Tuesday, saying it is to blame for the nation's woes.

Speaking via an official statement on Wednesday, the party countered reports that Tinubu bashed the federal government.

The Presidential Campaign Council Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga, stated that Tinubu's words could not have been directed at the president.

“We find it important to correct the misrepresentation of the statement of our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the campaign rally in Calabar yesterday by a section of the media, especially ThisDay Newspaper and its broadcast arm, Arise News.

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“Anyone who followed the entire sequence and context of what Asiwaju said at the rally in Calabar will know he directed his missiles against the PDP and Atiku.

"Lest we forget, the PDP left the forex reserve at $28 billion by May 2015 when Buhari took over, despite unprecedented revenue from crude oil.

“Even with the massive oil theft and low price of crude, until recently, President Buhari had built up the reserve to about $38 billion. 

"The PDP in 1999 met the exchange rate at N85 to one US dollar in 1999 and left it at N230 in 2015.

“The futile attempt to misrepresent Asiwaju Tinubu by the mischievous PDP media did not detract from his central message.

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"Our candidate explicitly said the people should not follow the PDP and Atiku because they don’t know the road.

“Asiwaju Tinubu could not have meant President Buhari does not know the road, having celebrated, numerous times, the achievements of the Buhari administration.

"Tinubu had also said at the campaign fora he would build on the achievements, when elected on 25 February.

“It is simply illogical that the same Asiwaju would attack the Buhari administration of not knowing the road.

"In contrast, throughout this campaign up till now, Asiwaju Tinubu has consistently said the PDP and all the opposition parties put together do not know the road to prosperity for Nigeria.

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"He also said the competing candidates do not have the track record he amassed as governor of Lagos.

“As the frontrunner in the race, he has promised to implement his robust Action Plan that will bring socio-economic prosperity to our country.

"We are not unmindful of the antics of ThisDay and Arise News to deliberately misrepresent our candidate and accentuate anything they think will project Asiwaju Tinubu in a bad light since the beginning of this electioneering circle.

“We want to state categorically that all the machinations of the opposition elements to put a wedge between President Muhammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Tinubu will fail.

"The APC, its leadership and President Buhari are strongly united behind our presidential candidate.

“All the sponsored innuendos, invented and imaginary discord in APC which the failed PDP and their media organs hope to cash on to win the coming election will blow up in their faces”, the statement reads.

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