A Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has said the declaration by
President Muhammadu Buhari making the national leader of the All
Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, leader of his campaign team is
deceitful.
The spokesperson for the group, Yinka Odumakin, said
the President should not use that as an excuse to avoid the Presidential
debate, adding that it could spell doom for his re-election bid.
Buhari,
while inaugurating the APC Presidential Campaign Council in Abuja had
said he was handing over the campaign to Tinubu so that governance would
not suffer.
He said, “Even though we have only 40 days, this
campaign is going to tax us all because we intend to touch all corners
of our great and vast country. But I must also add that though we will
all be deeply involved, I would like to assure the nation that I will do
my part without making governance or my work suffer. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu, my co-chairman, will be fully in charge and is going to be on
24-hour vigil.
“That is to say the operational buck of this
campaign stops at his table, and I, therefore, urge all of us in the
leadership of this campaign, in the field operations on the campaign
trail and in the secretariat to consult with Asiwaju whenever guidance
is needed.”
Odumakin, who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone on Monday, said the statement was deceitful.
He
said, “I think the whole thing is just to make Tinubu feel good and
think he is being reckoned with. But in any case, it is said that those
who don’t learn from history will repeat it.
“This confirms that
there are political forces that see some personalities at desperate
times as people they can just toy with and once they dangle some carrots
before them, there will be no problem.
“But if he tries to avoid
the debate, it cannot work. Nigerians will not be wise to vote for
anybody that is not ready to debate.”
Source:- Punchng
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