The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to withdraw from the presidential race and allow straightforward candidates to participate in the elections come 2023.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Hon Debo Ologunagba said this while reacting to the alleged hiring of some persons to dress as christian clerics during the unveiling of his running mate, Senator Shettima, at a press conference on Friday in Abuja.
“Now that the APC Presidential candidate has lost the basic required leadership integrity and having been exposed and roundly rejected in his ancestral home State of Osun, the South West and across the country; our Party counsels him to immediately withdraw from the 2023 Presidential race to avoid further disgrace.
“With this ugly episode, Nigerians now know the individual who has been the planner and executor of the lies, false promises, and corruption of the APC that have brought disunity, excruciating hardship, mass killings, and political instability in the country in the last seven years.”
“Nigerians cannot afford to have fraudsters, liars, deceivers, perjurers, swindlers, and corrupt individuals at the helm of affairs in our country. Such individuals can only superintend over a deceptive, fraudulent, and duplicitous administration and worsen the woes faced by our nation under the current inhumane and rudderless APC administration.
“Such action is unacceptable and unbecoming of any individual aspiring to a leadership position at any level let alone, the office of the President. This is an embarrassment to leadership,
“The APC Presidential candidate and his party should know that it is in his interest to withdraw from the race as it will be futile to go into an election in which the Will and aspiration of the people are manifestly against him and the APC.”, he stated.
