The Peoples Democratic Party has accused
the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen
Muhammadu Buhari, of handing over the selection of his running mate to a
cabal controlled by a former Lagos State Governor Asiwaju Tinubu.
It said in a statement on Sunday that by
so doing, Buhari had already surrendered his powers and first official
assignment of choosing a running mate to the cabal.
“In surrendering his prerogative of
choosing his running mate, Buhari has confirmed that he is being
appropriated and compromised to serve a personal and narrow group
interest of a cabal on whose ticket he emerged as a presidential
candidate,” the PDP said in the statement by its National Publicity
Secretary, Olisa Metuh.
It alleged that the “APC cabal under the
command of Tinubu tampered with all the rules of their party to achieve
their selfish agenda of planting surrogates in all strategic positions
to enable Tinubu expand his economic and political frontiers the way and
manner he did in Lagos State.”
The PDP added that a vote for Buhari in
the forthcoming presidential election was clearly a vote for Tinubu, his
political and economic interests.
It said, “Indeed, the possible
calculation of this cabal, if they ever get to power, is to choke up
Buhari and ultimately frustrate him out of office thereby allowing
Tinubu to have total control of the economic and political interests of
the nation.
“Therefore the question the citizens
want answered remains, ‘is Tinubu the face of the so-called change the
APC wants to bequeath to Nigerians?”
However, barring any last minute
changes, the APC national caucus will on Monday (today) meet in
Abuja to take a final decision on Buhari’s running mate.
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