APC chieftain defends Tinubu’s Hope 93, says manifesto not copied

By Christiana Ekpa

The leader of the Policy, Research and Strategy Directorate of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Musa Babayo, has backed the manifesto of the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying the documents is not copied from anywhere, but the brainchild of the candidate.

He made his position known yesterday when he inaugurated the members of the team in Abuja, he slammed the opposition for politicising the manifesto for selfish reasons.

“You know politicians have a way of distracting their audience from the message. Management is management. I am a professional manager and I know the basic principle of management are planning, coordination and control.

“It would continue to be in existence till the end of time. Nobody is going to reinvent the wheel. Issues keep on changing. This manifesto is not copy and paste. The manifesto is a brand new document that has incorporated some of the monumental challenges of the Nigerian state.

“There was no security challenge that was highlighted in the Hope 93 manifesto. There was no issue of the Maradi-Kano rail line in the 1993 hope manifesto. Nigeria of 1993 is different from Nigeria of today. Soon this administration would open the second Niger bridge.

“There was nothing like that in 1993. This is factual. So I want to dismiss in its entirety the comment made by the spokesperson of the other campaign organisation. They have the right to talk because we are already ahead in the competition.

“And when you are ahead of a competition, you should respect those behind you to try as much as possible to shrink your own share of the market share”, he said.

Speaking further, he said “This is the most important election in this country for many reasons. This is a period in the world when the global economy is going through a drastic change. No nation in the world is isolated and isolated from the global phenomenon of economy, climate change and most importantly bringing the country together.

“This is a ticket that has been misconstrued, this is a ticket that would make the nation better than what it is today. This is a ticket that would end the political identity politics.”