By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja
The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation (AOPCO) has berated the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign for resorting to the diversionary tactics of attacking and bullying the media rather than explaining the allegations surrounding the shady past of its candidate.
The AOPCO stated that the action of the TInubu/Shettima Campaign Organization has further confirmed that Asiwaju Tinubu lacks democratic credentials and has no business contesting for the office of the President of a country like Nigeria where citizens are in resolute in their demand for a credible and acceptable leader, who has no skeleton hidden in his cupboard.
The campaign organisation said this in a statement yesterday by its Spokesperson, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja.
The AOPCO stressed that with the development, Asiwaju Tinubu has, indeed, shown that he does not possess the qualities of the leader Nigerians are yearning for at this critical time of the nation’s history.
According to the statement, “The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation berates the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign for resorting the diversionary tactics of attacking and bullying the media rather than explaining the allegations surrounding the shady past of its Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“The Atiku/Okowa Campaign demands that Asiwaju Tinubu and his bully handlers should face his self-inflicted woes instead of attempting to play the victim just to divert public attention from his very unpleasant past.
“It is reprehensible and unmistakable sign of culpability that Asiwaju Tinubu and his campaigners have desperately resorted to bullying, intimidating and harassing media houses and journalists with a view to silencing and stopping them from questioning Asiwaju Tinubu on allegations of perjury, forgery, corruption and massive treasury-looting.
“We therefore consider this diversionary approach by the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign as very unwholesome and unacceptable assault on the very bedrock of democracy which is the right of the people to know, through a free press.
“Asiwaju Tinubu must understand that having brought himself out to contest for the position of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he must prepare to explain himself to the littlest of Nigerians, as well as the media which has the basic constitutional responsibility to seek information on behalf of every Nigerian.
“It is therefore, to say the least, irresponsible, thoughtless and incautious that the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign will abandon its responsibility of assisting its candidate to offer explanation, if he has any, rather than attacking media houses and demanding the sack of media practitioners for performing their professional and constitutional duties.
“The action of the TInubu/Shettima Campaign Organization further confirms that Asiwaju Tinubu lacks democratic credentials and has no business contesting for the office of the President of a country like Nigeria where citizens are in resolute in their demand for a credible and acceptable leader, who has no skeleton hidden in his cupboard.
“Indeed, Asiwaju Tinubu has shown that he does not possess the qualities of the leader Nigerians are yearning for at this critical time of our history.
“Our campaign urges Asiwaju Tinubu to note that his diversionary tactic and attack on the media will not stop Nigerians from raising the necessary posers.
“Tinubu should therefore fold his ‘agbada’ and respond to the media and Nigeria on the issues at hand.”
