“Don’t Cover Up for Your Candidate if He Is Seriously Challenged”, Secondus Tells APC

“Don’t Cover Up for Your Candidate if He Is Seriously Challenged”, Secondus Tells APC

  • Prince Uche Secondus has urged APC media handlers to focus on how to sell its candidate to Nigerians instead of attacking Prince Nduka Obaigbena
  • not to cover up if their candidate is seriously challenged
  • The former PDP chairman said it would be unpatriotic to foist an unhealthy person on the country as president
  • According to Secondus, who is also the national technical adviser of PDP PCC, the attack on Obaigbena was a needless distraction

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Prince Uche Secondus has an important message for members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).

The immediate past national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) asked them not to cover up for their candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu if he is sick, Guardian Newspaper reports.

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Secondus speaks on Tinubu's health
Secondus tells APC not to cover up for Tinubu if he is sick. Photo credit: PDP youths vanguard/Bayo Onanuga
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Secondus made this known in a statement, on Sunday, December 18. According to him, the attack on Obaigbena was a needless distraction, This Day Newspaper added.

He said.

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“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."

Going further, he asked them to focus on addressing the electorate rather than attacking Chief Nduka Obaigbena.

He added:

“I, therefore wish to counsel the APC media to concentrate their energy and resources on pushing their candidate and his qualities…to the public instead of dissipating energy and resources on a man whose contributions to the growth of the sector are glaring and outstanding.”

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Meanwhile, ex-speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Yakubu Dogara, has declared that he is grateful he is not Tinubu's running mate in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election.

Dogara made the comment during an interaction with journalists in Bauchi while reacting to a question that he is not supporting the APC presidential candidate because he was not chosen as the vice presidential candidate of the ruling party.

Political campaign spokespersons who made Nigerians glued to their TV screens

In another report, 2022 was a year of fireworks for Nigeria's political community, primarily as the country draws close to the 2023 general elections.

One prominent feature in the polity this outgoing year is the vocal nature of the campaign spokespersons for the various political parties.

These spokespersons have become household names due to their active media engagements, projecting their various parties and principals.

Source: Legit.ng

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