‘His gaffes are content for skit makers’ — Atiku’s aide hits Tinubu

Phrank Shaibu, an aide to Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the recent gaffes of Bola Tinubu are content for skit makers and TikTokers.

Within two weeks, Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has suffered gaffes such as saying “God bless PD… APC”, and recently asking youths to get their APV, while referring to permanent voter cards (PVCs), to vote for his party.

The aide to the former vice-president said Tinubu should not be allowed to get close to power because he “will make Nigeria a bye-word for scorn among the comity of nations”.

“Without mincing words, Tinubu’s gaffes already supply comedians, skit makers, meme-makers, and TikTokers with content,” Shaibu said.

“Now they are selling a message of a renewed hope. It is common knowledge that darkness cannot cure darkness and sickness cannot cure sickness. How can the APC be promising to fix problems exacerbated by the APC? This is balderdash.

“If the APC are not keen on replacing this disaster of a candidate, they should in the alternative apologise to all Nigerians for bringing them nothing but suffering of unquantifiable proportion since 2015, and proceed to make a solemn pledge not to have anything to do with governance, especially with the February 25 election fast approaching.

“I must confess that I consider the remarks credited to the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Saturday, November 26th, 2022, where he laboured, albeit unsuccessfully, to paint the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate as ungrateful and over ambitious as not only offensive but reckless.

“Instead of attacking Atiku, he should have dissipated that energy on telling Nigerians about himself, especially at this time when it is said at various fora that the only thing that is real about Tinubu is his person and that every other ascription on him is a borrowed robe.

“To be sure, Nigerians believe that Tinubu should come in the open to effectively disclaim the allegation that his name as it appears on public documents is not his name; that the parents he claimed were not his; that the certificates he claimed to be his are not and that the schools he claimed to have attended didn’t know him.”