‘Stop Playing God’, PDP Tells Tinubu

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has told National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to stop playing god.

The PDP made the remark in reaction to a statement credited to Tinubu, advising Nigerians against accepting the main opposition party.

Tinubu, while speaking during the 10th Bola Tinubu Colloquium organised to mark his 66th birthday celebration on Thursday, said “we will not allow the PDP back”.

The APC chieftain accused the PDP of crippling Nigeria’s economy, as billions of funds were looted under its 16-year reign.

“You looted, and you wasted our money. We will keep talking about it,’’ he said.

Tinubu said Buhari-led APC is on the voyage of redirecting Nigeria, adding that Nigerians should ignore the apology the PDP made earlier in the week.

“Dear Nigerians don’t take their apology, they lied, they falsified, they changed figures, for 16 years they made fake promises, they gave us fake figures, and they say don’t talk about it, is like saying after you caught a thieve, he says don’t look at me go and steal your own.” the former Lagos governor said.

But reacting, PDP spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement same Thursday, described Tinubu’s statement as a direct admittance of failure and indictment on President Buhari’s administration.

He said: “The PDP watched with amusement as Asiwaju Tinubu struggled with words to appease President Buhari and give him assurances that he can win a second term election in the face of mass failure both in governance and in their discredited, rejected and troubled platform.

“It was a direct admittance of failure and indictment on President Buhari’s administration, when Asiwaju pointedly told the President that the ship of the nation, under his (Buhari’s) watch, still needs to be rescued, almost three years down the line.

“It is tragic that Asiwaju had to tutor his visitor, who had no policy direction since his election in 2015, by engaging in a revision of the programmes and policies of the PDP, such as the leasing system, the mortgage and pension schemes which boosted the economy and directly impacted on the lives of Nigerians.”