THE presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has urged the presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to “step down from the presidential contest, having run unsuccessfully too many times.”
Tinubu gave the advice at Oporoza, the seat of the Gbaramatu kingdom in Delta State, where he was meeting with traditional leaders and Niger Delta stakeholders.
Addressing the monarchs and stakeholders who had thronged the creeks to receive him yesterday, Tinubu said, “As I stand before you, there are few of us running. One says he is Atiku, how many times has he been running? He is now tired of running. Let’s tell him to go and sit down and quit the race. Enough is enough.”
Tinubu also described the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as a man that was not wanted by Nigerians because “he lies with arithmetic that no mathematician can solve.”
“To mention his name is a disgrace to me. He gives out wrong arithmetic and wrong statistics on the economy. That is not what Nigerians want. Nigerians need honesty, they need the man who knows the road to take, and that man is me,” Tinubu stated.
In his call for support during the election campaign, he defined himself as a son-in-law of the Niger Delta and pledged to support everyone, advance the region, and renew the people’s hope.
Earlier, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the APC candidate for governor in the state, stated that if Tinubu were to be elected president, he would build a road leading to the Gbaramatu kingdom.
He added that the legal foundation for the establishment of the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, would be ready for President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval before the general election in 2023.
The traditional monarch of the Gbaramatu kingdom, Oboro Gbaruan II, who hosted the gathering conferred chieftaincy titles on Tinubu, Omo-Agege, and other participants.
The monarch asked for a road to his realm if Tinubu emerged as president.
In Tinubu’s entourage to the Niger Delta creeks were Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, his Yobe State counterpart, Mai Buni; the ministers of State for Petroleum Resources and that of Labour and Productivity, Timipre Sylva and Festus Keyamo respectively; former House of Representatives Speaker, Dimeji Bankole; Senator Omo-Agege’s running mate, Friday Osanebi; Delta APC Chairman, Chief Oseni Sobotie; Delta APC Campaign Director-General, Godsday Orubebe and a Bayelsa State APC chieftain, David Lyon, among others.
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