Paul Ibe, the media adviser to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has described the All Progressive Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as \u2018anti-business\u2019.<\/p>\n
Ibe blasted Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, for stating that other candidates lacked the antecedent and experience to rule the country.<\/p>\n
Tinubu and Shettima spoke while presenting his action plan before the business community and the organised private sector in Lagos on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Reacting via a statement released on Wednesday, Ibe\u00a0blasted the duo, stating that their remarks showed \u201cgross irresponsibility and disrespectfulness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ibe said, \u201cIt is with utter dismay that we listened to the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu and his running mate talk condescendingly about other presidential candidates at a gathering that they invited members of the private sector to on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe remarks from the candidates of the APC show gross irresponsibility and disrespectfulness.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is indicative that the Tinubu-Shettima administration will be anti entrepreneurship and business.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne would have thought that the duo would use the advantage of such a gathering to talk about solutions that their party, APC, has foisted on the country. Rather, they went on the ultra highway of political indecency.\u201d<\/p>\n
He further called on Shettima to apologise for his comments at the event.<\/p>\n
Ibe said, \u201cShettima should apologise to Nigerian workers, especially the thousands that benefit from Atiku\u2019s businesses for his irresponsible statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolitics does not confer on anyone the license to make irresponsible statements.<\/p>\n
\u201cA gathering of the top echelons of the private sector was supposed to be an avenue for laying out serious policy choices. For Tinubu and Shettima on the contrary, they chose to embarrass their guests, using their audience to play vile political games.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor someone who self-appoints as the APC national leader, it is ridiculous that the presidential candidate of the APC failed to proffer solutions to the economic woes that his party has foisted on Nigerians in the past seven years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Highlighting Atiku\u2019s achievements in comparison to Tinubu, Ibe added, \u201cEven during the COVID-19 pandemic, Atiku pioneered the private donor relief funds, which opened the gateway for other Nigerians of means to follow suit in providing succor to people who were worst hit by the attendant self isolation regulation in the management of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
\u201cTinubu, who has been in hibernation mode for the seven years that his party unleashed the worst moment of economic hardship on Nigerians, has suddenly found a voice because, as it is usual with the APC, the time is here again to hoodwink the people with sugarcoated promises.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe, therefore, wish to remind the APC and their presidential candidate that, unlike them, the PDP and Atiku are promise keepers.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnlike the APC and Tinubu, Atiku has not waited for when election is around the corner to espouse solutions to the challenges facing the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnlike APC and Tinubu, Atiku\u2019s position on the pathway to economic recovery of Nigeria has remained consistent ditto his views about restructuring, education, national inclusivity and engendering healthy national security.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnlike Tinubu and his APC, Nigerians know that Atiku and the PDP are more believable to deliver on their manifesto.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paul Ibe, the media adviser to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has described the All Progressive Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as \u2018anti-business\u2019. Ibe blasted Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, for stating that other candidates lacked the antecedent and experience to rule the country. Tinubu and Shettima spoke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":226076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"custom","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"single-left","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"floatbottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":{"override_bookmark_button":"0","override_show_bookmark_button":"0"},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3046,6769,7067,43417],"class_list":["post-226452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-atiku-abubakar","tag-bola-tinubu","tag-kashim-shettima","tag-paul-ibe"],"yoast_head":"\n