APM to Tinubu: Step aside, you lack the stamina to continue in office
The Makinde-Daura Presidential Campaign Organisation (MDPCO), under the platform of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to quit his re-election bid, saying Nigeria needs a President with the required stamina to lead a country.
The Director of Strategic Communications of the MDPCO, Richard Ihediwa, stated this in Abuja on Sunday while reacting to the President’s continued foreign trips, the latest being his visit to Saudi Arabia for prayers, just weeks after returning from a vacation in France.
The MDPCO stated that President Tinubu could not withstand the rigours of campaigning and had to be flown to Mecca for prayers after delivering a “speech at the sparsely attended flag-off of his re-election campaign in Kaduna last week.”
“President Tinubu does not have the stamina to continue in office. It’s a natural tendency. All of us wish and pray to grow old, but we cannot continue to insist on holding office even when we no longer have the capacity, capability and stamina to effectively perform in the office.
“So, President Tinubu should quit and allow a younger generation to take over. The Presidency is a very demanding office that requires a lot of stamina.
“Nigeria has been racing backwards in the last three and a half years because we have a president who is not able to lead from the front, who cannot physically oversee governance. President Tinubu at his age is not attuned to aspirations of the contemporary world. He cannot invest in current technologies because these things would be confusing to him.
“So, President Tinubu should take the back seat and allow younger hands, like our presidential candidate, Seyi Makinde, to take over for the next four years to Reset Nigeria with an all-inclusive government of national unity.”
Ihediwa said Makinde possessed the experience, preparedness and energy required to work round the clock and deliver on promises
He stated, “Nigeria needs a president who can travel to every part of the country, spend quality time with citizens and remain actively engaged in governance, even into the early hours of the morning.
“This explains the enthusiastic reception accorded Makinde, his running mate, Lawal Daura, and the entire campaign train by Nigerians across the North-West, North-Central, North-East, South-South, South-West and South-East geopolitical zones.
“I want to use this opportunity to urge Nigerians to sustain the momentum, obtain their Permanent Voter Cards and vote out President Tinubu if he fails to heed our counsel and withdraw from the 2027 presidential race.”
On the announcement by the Federal Government of a monthly N50,000 payment to vulnerable households under the National Emergency Relief and Stabilisation Intervention, Ihediwa described it as a failed attempt to procure Nigerians , adding that such cannot sway the people from their determination to vote Tinubu out of office in January 2027.
“Such panic-driven financial measures cannot save President Tinubu and the APC from defeat. You can see that the APC was defeated in the Osun State governorship election despite the amount of money that they deployed.”
