The war of words between the camps of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, appears to be far from over, as the latter has declared the former Lagos state governor unfit for the office of president.
The APC Presidential Campaign Council, through its media director, Bayo Onanuga, first urged Atiku to clarify his alleged ill health before calling on him to drop out of the presidential race due to alleged corrupt practices while serving as Vice President.
In a statement signed by its spokesman, Kola Ologbodiyan, the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation slammed Tinubu for “his failed attempt to impute illness on the healthy and energetic presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar.”
According to The Punch, the Tinubu campaign also failed “to impugn the impeccable character and integrity of the incoming peoples’ President, Atiku.”
The PDP clears the air on Atiku’s health status and confronts Tinubu about it.
In part, the statement read,
“It is imperative to observe that our campaign had focused on issues and refrained from Tinubu’s appalling health issues prior to this ignoble public dance of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign.
“However, since Tinubu by himself has opened the channels for Nigerians to examine his ill-health, we have no other option than to further expose that the APC candidate must be suffering from manifest Parkinson’s disease accompanied with incontinence.
“For clarity, Parkinson’s disease is a brain disorder which symptoms include shaking hands, stiffness of limbs, difficulty with coordination, problem with balance when walking; articulation disorder, memory problems as well as general mental and physical weakness which are all being witnessed in the APC presidential candidate.
“Furthermore, Nigerians find it incongruous that the tarnished Asiwaju Tinubu who is badgered by alleged looting of Lagos state treasury and stripping of her property; cases of forgery, impersonation, perjury, inconsistencies in name, age as well as questionable educational background, ancestry and genealogy could attempt to speak on corruption and integrity.
“Asiwaju Tinubu should rather hide his face in shame given his malodourous activities for which well-meaning Nigerians have dissociated themselves from his presidential campaign.“In any case, Nigerians are aware that Tinubu is not ethically, physically and mentally fit to hold office as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, unlike the decent, honest, physically, mentally and emotionally fit Atiku Abubakar, who exhibits the manifest readiness, intellectual alertness, capacity and experience to lead our nation at this critical time.
“Those pushing emi lokan’s candidature cannot claim to be unaware that he is not fit to preside over a country of 200 million people.”“Asiwaju has only one opponent”:
According to Bashir Ahmad, President Muhammadu Buhari’s special assistant on digital communication, Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, has only one opponent.
Ahmad, a member of Buhari’s presidency, revealed that the APC’s only opponent in the 2023 presidential election is Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The president’s aide went on to say on Twitter that the APC knows how to easily defeat Atiku in an election.