A statement by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesman, Olisa Metuh, on Sunday has labelled the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, as a lapdog of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a national leader of the APC.
The PDP in the statement branded Buhari as merely a front for Tinubu to “whom he had already surrendered his powers and first official assignment of choosing a running mate”.
“This development clearly confirms that Buhari is not in charge, may have been compromised and willing to be appropriated. In fact, patriotic Nigerians from across the six geo-political zones are now embarrassed that Buhari is playing a godson to Tinubu,” it said.
“In surrendering his prerogative of choosing his running mate, Buhari has confirmed that he is being appropriated and compromised to serve a personal and narrow group interest of a cabal on whose ticket he emerged as the presidential candidate.
“This APC cabal under the command of Tinubu tampered with all the rules of their party to achieve their selfish agenda of planting surrogates in all strategic positions to enable Tinubu expand his economic and political frontiers the way and manner he did in Lagos state.
“Therefore a vote for Buhari in the forthcoming presidential election is clearly a vote for Tinubu, his political and economic interests.
“Indeed, the possible calculation of this cabal, if they ever get to power, is to choke up Buhari and ultimately frustrate him out of office, thereby allowing Tinubu to have total control of the economic and political interests of the nation.
“Therefore, the question the citizens want answered remains, is Tinubu the face of the so-called change the APC wants to bequeath to Nigerians?
“The APC and its leadership have clearly shown that to them, national interest is secondary to Bola Tinubu’s business interests, little wonder many are now calling APC Asiwaju’s personal consortium.”