Lagos State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked critics to stop attacking the party’s National Leader, Bola Tinubu. Reacting to an article by Dele Akin Rahman in Daily Sun of September 2, the party described Tinubu’s critics as reckless.
In a statement by the spokesman of the party in Lagos, Joe Igbokwe, APC said it was illogical to suggest that Tinubu would bring down a government he helped to take over power at the centre.
The party accused the author of the article of doing the bidding of those who never envisaged that APC could end the “rudderless administration of the PDP. Lagos APC condemns in the strongest terms this calculated attempt to bring Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu down to their miserable level and to judge the consummate leader of men by their horrible and dubious standards.
“Before the 2015 presidential election, our well-respected National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed and President (Muhammadu) Buhari were subjected to vicious attacks and debilitating assaults just to bring them down, but they failed woefully.
“President Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu ran away with resounding and unprecedented victory on March 28, 2015.”
Igbokwe said the author of the article and his alleged sponsors were angry and confused over their loss to APC in the last general election.
“Politically, they (Tinubu’s critics) have been decimated and relegated to the background, economically their business of stealing government money in billions has been checkmated and blocked and socially they have been ostracised and rejected by Nigerians,” he said.
He added: “Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains a well-respected political figure in Nigeria, Africa and the world today and anybody who thinks in his wildest imagination that a strong and powerful image built for nearly 50 years can be destroyed by the antics of … men without honour must be jokers.”
In a statement by the spokesman of the party in Lagos, Joe Igbokwe, APC said it was illogical to suggest that Tinubu would bring down a government he helped to take over power at the centre.
The party accused the author of the article of doing the bidding of those who never envisaged that APC could end the “rudderless administration of the PDP. Lagos APC condemns in the strongest terms this calculated attempt to bring Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu down to their miserable level and to judge the consummate leader of men by their horrible and dubious standards.
“Before the 2015 presidential election, our well-respected National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed and President (Muhammadu) Buhari were subjected to vicious attacks and debilitating assaults just to bring them down, but they failed woefully.
“President Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu ran away with resounding and unprecedented victory on March 28, 2015.”
Igbokwe said the author of the article and his alleged sponsors were angry and confused over their loss to APC in the last general election.
“Politically, they (Tinubu’s critics) have been decimated and relegated to the background, economically their business of stealing government money in billions has been checkmated and blocked and socially they have been ostracised and rejected by Nigerians,” he said.
He added: “Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains a well-respected political figure in Nigeria, Africa and the world today and anybody who thinks in his wildest imagination that a strong and powerful image built for nearly 50 years can be destroyed by the antics of … men without honour must be jokers.”
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