Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organisation Blows Hot, Issues Strong Warning to Tinubu, Shettima

• The campaign organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party's presidential candidate has condemned the attack on Arise Television and the media in general by Bola Tinubu's team
• The organisation urged the former governor of Lagos state to make himself available for public scrutiny
• According to the Atiku/Okowa PCO, Tinubu must prepare to explain himself to the littlest of Nigerians

The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation has condemned the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign for resorting to diversionary tactics of attacking and bullying the media rather than explaining the allegations surrounding the conceived past of its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.

In a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, the spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organization, the team demands the APC flag bearer and his "bully handlers" face his woes rather than attempting to play the victim.

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Ologbondiyan said that Tinubu and his handlers are only working hard to divert public attention from his alleged unpleasant past.

He added that it is a reprehensible and unmistakable sign of culpability that Tinubu and his campaigners have desperately resorted to bullying, intimidating and harassing media houses and journalists with a view to silence and stop them from questioning him on several allegations against his person.

He further stated that the Atiku/Okowa campaign team consider this diversionary approach by the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign as a very unwholesome and unacceptable assault on the very bedrock of democracy which is the right of the people to know, through a free press.

Ologbondiyan's words:

"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.

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"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."

In addition, Ologbondiyan said that the action by Tinubu and his team has confirmed that the former governor of Lagos state lacks democratic credentials and has no business contesting for the office of the president of a country like Nigeria where citizens are resolute in their demand for a credible and acceptable leader, who has no skeleton of narcotics hidden in his cupboard.

He said:

"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.

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"Tinubu should therefore fold his ‘agbada’ and respond to the media and Nigeria on the issues at hand. He should provide answers to his reported forfeiture of $460,000 to the authorities of the United States of America which was traced to narcotics."

He also urged Tinubu to provide Nigerians answers to allegations of certificate forgery, perjury, treasury-looting, continued fleecing of Lagos state as well as inconsistencies in his name, educational qualification, ancestry, and reported link with narcotics.

He said:

"This is in addition to Tinubu's many gaffes, his constant claim of credit on the achievements of others as well as his reported plot to incite violence in the 2023 general elections by directing his supporters to grab, snattch and run away with power.

"These are questions which Asiwaju Tinubu, having brought himself out, must submit to a public probity by the Nigerian media."

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Source: Legit.ng