Presidency: Tinubu, Atiku Camps Clash Over Candidates’ Health Status, Expose Each Other
- For the ruling All Progressives Congress, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar is not well
- But the opposition PDP noted that the plot by Bola Tinubu against Atiku, to impute illness on him has failed
- The opposition party further noted that the former governor of Lagos state is not ethically, physically and mentally fit to lead the country
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The leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party are at loggerheads over their candidates' health status.
This is as the APC flagbearer, Bola Tinubu, and his PDP counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, appears far from over as the latter has declared the former Lagos state governor, unfit for the office of the president.
Source: Twitter
The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation in a statement signed by its spokesman, Kola Ologbodiyan, took a swipe at Tinubu over what it called “his failed attempt to impute illness on the healthy and energetic presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar.”
According to The Punch, the campaign organisation also said the Tinubu’s camp failed “to impugn the impeccable character and integrity of the incoming peoples’ President, Atiku.”
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PDP clears the air on Atiku's health status, tackles Tinubu over his health status
The statement read in part,
“Those pushing emi lokan’s candidature cannot claim to be unaware that he is not fit to preside over a country of 200 million people.”
Presidency: Atiku lands in Tinubu's backyard, describes APC candidate as "greenhorn"
In another development, Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has taunted his counterpart in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, in Lagos.
The former vice president was in the state to present his economic plans to the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), where he called on Nigerians not to vote for the former governor of the state in the 2023 presidential election.
Atiku landed in Lagos on Sunday, January 15, shortly after his visit to the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) where he commiserated with PDP members injured in a fatal accident in Plateau state.
"Asiwaju has only one opponent": Presidency reveals how Tinubu will defeat Atiku, dismisses Obi, others
Bashir Ahmad, the special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on digital communication, has said, Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has only one opponent.
Ahmad, who is a member of Buhari's presidency, disclosed that Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the only opponent of the APC in the 2023 presidential election.
The president's aide via his Twitter page to further stated that the APC, however, knows how to squarely defeat Atiku in an election.
Source: Legit.ng
