Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress Bola Tinubu has taken a swipe at the campaign manifesto of his Labour Party’s counterpart Mr. Peter Obi.
He said the document is empty and shows the LP candidate as vapid and an impostor.
Obi had presented a 72-paged document which his campaign titled “It’s Possible: Our Pact With Nigerians”.
Warning Nigerians to stare clear of Obi, Tinubu, in the statement by his campaign Media Director Bayo Onanuga, said, Obi is not prepared to lead a country like Nigeria.
The statement said “Contrary to the image of a reformer and thinker Obi and his followers have created of him, we make bold to say that the Labour Party candidate is vapid, intellectually arid, a mere impostor who only seeks to play on the emotions of his gullible followers. Mr. Obi’s policy document, if anything, has only exposed him as ill-prepared for the titanic task of governing a country the size of Nigeria. As a candidate, he has nothing new to offer Nigerians beyond hawking fake statistics and preying on the young people’s sentiments as a demagogue. “
He also accused Obi of imitating what the current Buhari administration is doing but in a rather poor way.
“In fact, the document Mr. Obi released is a poor imitation and regurgitation of what the current APC-led administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is doing. If anything, the document showed him as a man without honour, credibility and character because he is promising to do all the things he has railed against and de-legitimised in the past.”
The statement said Obi’s manifesto is only high on graphics and what it called “demagogic rhetorics”.
It went on to say that “The document which is titled ‘It is Possible: Our Pact with Nigerians’, offers nothing refreshing to Nigerians and comes across as total anti-climax. The subtitle ‘Action Plan’ was shamelessly parroted from Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s manifesto.
By now, many of the gullible followers must have been utterly disappointed that their man didn’t offer them anything to be proud of after all the blusters and the initial leakage of the document, which contains, strangely, 15 pages of the biographical sketches of Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed.
Mr. Peter Obi’s document contains no grand policy initiatives and options to excite right thinking Nigerians. It was silent about how Obi wants to achieve his high falutin objectives. Instead, it will set alarm bells ringing in the South South and North East as Obi promises to ‘engineer the transition of Nigeria from a fossil fuel dependency to climate and eco-friendly energy use”.
