The Peoples Party of Nigeria has flayed the National Leader of the All Progressive Party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for accepting the task of reconciling aggrieved members of the ruling All Progressives Congress ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The PPN said that the reconciliation embarked upon by President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC was aimed at merely rallying the members of the party to support the President’s second term ambition in 2019.
President Buhari had recently saddled Tinubu with the responsibility of reconciling every aggrieved member of the APC in order to put the party in a better shape ahead of the 2019 elections.
But the National Chairman, PPN, Mr. Razak Eyiowuawi, said in an exclusive interview in Abeokuta, Ogun State, that Tinubu would not be working in the interest of Nigerians by reconciling aggrieved members of the APC because of the 2019 elections.
Eyiowuawi, who argued that the President had failed to meet the yearnings and aspirations of Nigerians and, therefore, no longer fit to rule the country beyond 2019, urged Tinubu not to continue to support Buhari’s re-election next year.
“Tinubu is a leader, and he should know that by now he should be wary of carrying Buhari’s re-election campaigns on his head, if he has the interest of all Nigerians at heart,” he said.
The PPN national chairman said Tinubu should not quickly forget how the President and the APC had sidelined him in the running of the nation’s affairs until recently, saying it was high time he withdrew his support for the President in the forthcoming election.
Eyiowuawi also expressed hope that Tinubu would withdraw his support for Buhari at the last minute in the next elections, insisting that the President should perish the idea of second term.
“Tinubu should know as a leader, that with what was done to him recently by Buhari, he should not be the one now leading Buhari’s re-election for a second term because Buhari has shown that he is not fit to rule Nigerians. I know Tinubu himself. When the
time comes for the elections, he will not support Buhari,” he added.
