The Spokesperson of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo has mocked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP over the absence of the Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state at the PDP campaign flag-off in Uyo on Monday, describing the campaign as a disaster waiting to happen.
Keyamo, in a statement, on Monday described the absence of the Wike and other PDP governors as a warning signal.
According to Keyamo, the launch of the presidential campaign was a disaster waiting to happen, saying the opposition party had continued to treat the Nigerian public with disdain and disrespect.
Recall that Wike and his counterpart governors of Oyo State (Seyi Makinde), Benue State (Samuel Ortom), Abia State (Ikpeazu Okezie), and Enugu State (Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi) and some members of the National Working Committee of the PDP were absent at the official launch of PDPโs presidential campaign in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
The APC campaign spokesperson added that he found the presence of the embattled National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, on the podium promising the PDP will change the fortune of the country a huge joke.
He said, โWhen you have a flag-off campaign that is shunned by the national vice-chairmen of the South-South, South-West, and five sitting governors out of thirteen, that is a definitive and resounding red-flag that Nigerians should not vote the presidential candidate of the PDP in this coming election.
โIf the peopleโs representatives at the state levels are so unanimously against their partyโs candidate that they would shun his campaign launch, then indeed, we would say to Nigerians, A word is enough for the wise.
โHas he been able to fulfill the promise he made to himself and his party members to step down from office should a northerner emerge as the presidential candidate at their party primaries?
โHow can a party that cannot unite itself promise to unite Nigeria? How can a party that brazenly violates its own constitution on zoning be trusted to obey the constitution of Nigeria if again trusted with power?
โFortunately, to the benefit of Nigerians, there remains a few good men within PDP. These honourable men belonging to the partyโs NWC, deemed it right to return hundreds of millions of Naira allegedly transferred into their individual bank accounts as โhush moneyโ to suppress the investigation of the scandal of humongous financial misappropriation leveled against their national chairman.
โNot much should, therefore, be expected from such a gathering. With the obvious inability of its presidential candidate to assuage frayed nerves of disaffected persons within their ranks, how will it be possible for such a person to unite people within such a diverse landscape as Nigeria? You definitely cannot give what you donโt have.
โThe PDP and its self-conceited leadership failed woefully to put its house in order before hitting the streets to ask for the votes of Nigerians and, ironically, telling Nigerians they are on a rescue mission.
โTill date, their national secretariat remains uncompleted, whilst the APC, in its relatively shorter existence, now has a permanent headquarters.
โOur democracy is young. This Fourth Republic is barely 24 years old. But then, a 24 years old man would be said to be coming of age. At this time, Nigerians are no longer interested in a trial-and-error leadership.
โThose who have not been proven to be โgood enoughโ leaders should have no access to our highest office. If nothing else speaks to the disaster an Abubakar Atiku presidency will be, this crisis within the PDP does so eloquently,โ he said.
