The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Bola Tinubu has urged the Nigerian electorate to reject the standard bearers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP), Messrs Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, respectively at the polls on February 25 saying they have nothing to offer.
Speaking at a rally in Akure, Ondo State, Tinubu said a vote for Atiku or Obi would be a waste.
He said Atiku would not do any “brave and hard work required to build a better nation” but “instead, he would rather sell your birthright to the highest bidder and run off with the proceeds.”
He added: “He cares little that his policies and actions will impoverish you and leave you with nothing.”
On Obi, whom he called “Mr. Stingy” Tinubu said the LP candidate will save money and starve Nigerians if elected as president.
He said Obi lost the chance to show how progressive he could be when he served as the governor of Anambra State.
“All he could do was boast that he saved money. But I tell you it is a wicked parent that holds money in his hand yet allows his children to starve.
“Likewise, it is a heartless governor who holds back money when people go hungry, and schools, roads and clinics go into disrepair. Neither the city-dweller nor the farmer prospered under him.
“In the end, he refused to save the people because he preferred to save the money.
“And he claims to be in the party of labour. You will have to be labouring under a terrible delusion if you think he will do better for the nation than he did for Anambra State. Buyers beware of salesmen selling fake merchandise.
“The truth of the difference between my leadership and that of Mr. Obi lies in one observation. Although Lagos is crowded and Anambra has ample space, more people left Obi’s Anambra seeking a better life in Tinubu’s Lagos than left Lagos, believing Obi had established a blueprint for growth in Anambra.
“My people, you cannot entrust your future or that of our nation to Mr. Sell Everything, Atiku, or Mr. Stingy, Obi. But you can trust Mr. Progressive Good Governance Tinubu!” he stated.
Meanwhile, Obi has charged his supporters to work actively and destroy the killer-structures of the APC and the PDP.
He made the appeal at the presidential rally held in Osogbo, Osun State yesterday.
He also stressed the need for Nigerians to take back the country from sick, old and tired politicians with a sense of entitlement by voting for him and his running mate, Baba Datti-Ahmed in the February 2023 presidential poll.
He said the parties that boast about having structures can only showcase killings, insecurity, intermittent strikes by university lecturers as major achievements.
“Nigerians are hungry, youths have no job, it is not safe to travel anywhere in Nigeria today.
“All these challenges are caused by those who say they have party structure, but these structures have crippled Nigeria.
“I want me and you to destroy these structures by voting them out next month.
“We are going to secure and unite Nigeria; we want Nigerians to be proud of being a Nigerian. We will deliver a secured Nigeria.
“We don’t want Nigerians to be in Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camp. We don’t want you to be a slave in your own country.
“We are going to govern this country with fear of God. We will give you jobs; we will change Nigeria from a consuming country to a producing one.
“These people keep bragging that they have structures, yet they are not doing anything. They are not producing anything in this state, youths are unemployed, we will change these challenges,” he said.
