Stop distractions, disclose Tinubu’s health status and market him, he adds
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman Uche Secondus has asked the spokesmen of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Ahmed Tinubu to disclose his health condition instead of engaging in an unnecessary war of words with Nduka Obiagbena, the proprietor of ThisDay and Arise TV.
Secondus, now a Technical Adviser to PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, said he has followed the issues behind the spat and wondered why the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) neglect marketing Tinubu to engage in distraction.
Rather than joining issues with Obaigbena, the APC team should have used the time and energy to position Tinubu positively in the eyes of the public, he said.
“Unless they are surrendering to the town talks that they have nothing to sell in the current political space and have chosen to cause unnecessary distractions, given the persisting tireless role of Nigeria media in the socio-political development of this country from independence in 1960 and continued in the June 12 democratic struggle that birthed this Republic, one expects the media to get involved in some more pragmatic matters not on undesirable squabbles,” Secondus argued in a statement.
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Arise TV and ThisDay doing their job
“From whatever perspective you want to look at it, Arise TV and ThisDay newspapers have not gone outside the dictates of their profession in asking a presidential candidate of a ruling party to present himself for public scrutiny,” Secondus added, per Vanguard.
“It’s indeed an aberration that a person aspiring to rule over 200 million people is dodging from talking to them or answering their questions even from his media establishment.”
Secondus urged the APC not to cover up if Tinubu has a serious challenge in facing public interrogation because that is what is required to avoid the deceit and propaganda of 2015 that brought the country where it is today.
“The health of your candidate should worry you because it would be unpatriotic to foist on the country unhealthy person for a position that requires complete mental and physical alertness.
“I, therefore, wish to counsel the APC media to concentrate their energy and resources in pushing their candidate and his qualities, if any, to the public instead of dissipating energy and resources on a man whose contributions to the growth of the sector is glaring and outstanding.”
