The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer, Bola Tinubu, as a tribal evangelist.
Daniel Bwala, spokesman for the Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign council, stated this in response to Tinubu’s statement during his meeting with Afenifere leaders on Sunday.
Bwala stated in a statement released on Monday that Tinubu’s remark that he would bring the trophy home from the meeting is an ethnic insinuation and divisive remark.
On Sunday, Afenifere and other Southwest leaders endorsed Tinubu’s presidential bid.
The statement read;
So to Tinubu, the race to become the president of Nigeria is a trophy to be won and taken to his ethnic enclave. He was not only wrong in his tribal insinuation that not a single Yoruba opposed the ticket, but he also lied because lots of Yorubas took strong objections to the same faith ticket and to his divisive and religious politics.
To say that his ticket is supported by all Yorubas is, to say the least disingenuous, false, and condemnable.
Tinubu has made no secret about his tribal championship and utter disregard for other ethnic people in southern Nigeria. This to say the least is sad and terribly troubling and Nigerians should rise and condemn this rhetoric at the polls.
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