Tinubu boasts Atiku will lose again in his ‘perennially chasing’ of the presidential trophy
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Bola Tinubu has boasted he will beat Atiku Abubakar to the Villa in 2023, and that would make him a sixth time also ran, after which Atiku would have no option but to retire to Dubai where he often goes off to spend time with his family.
Muhammadu Buhari won the Presidency in 2015 in his fourth attempt.
Atiku has contested for it five times and failed under different political parties – in 1993, 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019. His current run is his sixth.
Tinubu’s latest jab at the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came after the Atiku camp asked him to step down for not being constitutionally fit to run for Aso Rock over alleged corruption.
PDP spokesman Debo Ologunagba demanded Tinubu quit the race based on Section 137 of the Constitution which he claimed disqualified the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Tinubu countered on Facebook through APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) spokesman Bayo Onanuga that he remains in the race and would defeat Atiku and compel him to retire from politics for life.
Onanuga challenged Atiku and the PDP to go to court, saying Tinubu is unstoppable and would contest next year’s election.
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‘Fragmented and emasculated PDP’
“The PDP, Ologunagba are jokers: The fragmented and emasculated PDP turned itself into an accuser, prosecutor and judge today, asking Asiwaju Tinubu to quit the presidential race,” Onanuga said, per reporting by The Guardian.
“What a comedy! The PDP spokesman Debo Ologunagba quoted an ill-digested section 137 of the 1999 Constitution and decreed that Asiwaju should step down.
“He claimed that by the provision, Tinubu is not eligible to contest the presidential election in Nigeria.
“His call followed the release of the 30-year-old US document its agents and media lapdogs have been spreading. Now at least we know that the party and their candidate are behind the shameful campaign of calumny.
“Mr Ologunagba, stop dreaming! Your party can go to court if it likes. But what we know is that Asiwaju is unstoppable, by the grace of God.
“He will contest the election, win it, retire Atiku to Dubai and finally stop him from perennially chasing the elusive presidential trophy.”