PDP blasts Tinubu for wooing Jonathan after he ‘concocted … lies’ against him
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
“It is indeed provocative that after turning our nation into a vast killing field by emboldening terrorist elements to massacre our citizens; wrecking our once robust economy, elevating corruption to an official state policy and turning our nation into the poverty capital of the world, APC leaders are seeking to beguile Nigerians again” – PDP
Image laundering is the motive of Bola Tinubu in riding the wagon of Goodluck Jonathan for a photo op with a man he “callously vilified and pilloried” when he was President, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lashed out.
The PDP accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate and his Muslim-Muslim tag team mate Kashim Shettima of attempting to distance themselves from the failings of Muhammadu Buhari.
It wondered why Tinubu would want to use “distinguished and successful” Jonathan to revamp his own image after he had “concocted economic lies, propaganda and false statistics to discredit the Jonathan-led PDP administration.”
Shettima also came up for knocks for having “sabotaged and frustrated the Jonathan’s administration in its effort to curb insecurity in Borno State,” according to a statement issued by PDP National Publicity Secretary Debo Ologunagba.
“In a desperate design to whitewash their battered public image, identifying with the obvious successes of the PDP and in an attempt to posture as statesmen, the APC Presidential candidate, his running mate … Shettima, and other APC leaders shamelessly orchestrated a photo opportunity with the distinguished and successful former President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“This is a patriotic Nigerian leader whose PDP-led purposeful and successful government the APC leaders viciously harassed, constantly insulted, labelled, sabotaged and discredited for their selfish power-grabbing enterprise,” the statement added.
“Nigerians have not forgotten how … Tinubu callously vilified and pilloried … Jonathan, spewed hate against his administration and reportedly funded a near riotous protest which was inflamed by concocted economic lies, propaganda and false statistics to discredit the Jonathan-led PDP administration.
“Nigerians can equally recall how … Shettima as governor of Borno State sabotaged and frustrated the Jonathan’s administration in its effort to curb insecurity in Borno State.
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Shettima encouraged the kidnap of Chibok girls
“Records still have it on how the APC Vice Presidential candidate as governor of Borno State failed to act on a security report and directive to close schools in remote parts of Borno State and relocate students to the more secure capital of Maiduguri to write their GCE examinations; thus creating the opening for the cruel abduction of school girls in Chibok, Borno State,” Ologunagba said, per Vanguard.
“Nigerians will also note how then Governor Shettima abdicated his duty as chief security officer and reportedly withheld vital security information in preference to non-state actors including terrorist elements, thereby frustrating the timely rescue of the abducted Chibok girls.
“It can also be recalled that after the infamous abduction, the principal of the school was subsequently appointed a commissioner in Borno State by the then Governor Shettima; a development many considered as a compensation for her alleged role in the abduction.
Image laundering to ‘hoodwink Nigerians’
“It is, therefore, ironic that these same APC leaders, who also spent the last seven years insulting and harassing … Jonathan, now shamelessly arranged a visit and photo opportunity in an attempt to launder their image and hoodwink Nigerians from the atrocities and monumental evil they brought to our country.
“It is indeed provocative that after turning our nation into a vast killing field by emboldening terrorist elements to massacre our citizens; wrecking our once robust economy, elevating corruption to an official state policy and turning our nation into the poverty capital of the world, APC leaders are seeking to beguile Nigerians again.
‘Illusory antics’
“We are aware that these APC leaders have lined up several illusory antics to mislead Nigerians ahead of the 2023 general elections, but they must know that Nigerians have moved on and cannot be swayed by propaganda, lies, false promises and photo ops with successful individuals.
“What is expected of APC leaders at this moment is to apologize unreservedly to Dr Jonathan, the PDP and Nigerians for the life-discounting situation they have foisted on our nation in the last seven years.
“After that they should quietly quit the stage, take valedictory pictures with terrorists, political thugs and election riggers since they cannot have any space among well-meaning Nigerians.”