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From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
Presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu, has, however, denied that he attacked President Muhammadu Buhari during his campaign rally in Calabar, the Cross-River State capital.
A statement by the spokesperson, Tinubu-Shettima APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Bayo Onanuga, insisted that he could not have made any disparaging statement against Buhari.
“We find it important to correct the misrepresentation of the statement of our candidate, Tinubu at the campaign rally in Calabar by a section of the media. While addressing the mammoth crowd of party supporters, Tinubu urged them not to vote for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar because of their litany of failures while in power for 16 years.
“The reference to exchange rate was not in any way an attack on the Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress administration, but an attempt to capture how the economic mismanagement of the PDP created forex crisis in the country since 2015,” he clarified.
Onanuga said anyone who followed the entire sequence and context of what Asiwaju said at the rally in Calabar would know that Tinubu directed his missiles against PDP and Atiku.
“Let’s we forget, the PDP left the forex reserve at $28 billion by May 2015, when Buhari took over despite unprecedented revenue from crude oil.
Even with the massive oil theft and low price of crude, until recently, President Buhari had built up the reserve to about $38 billion. The PDP in 1999 met the exchange rate at N85 to one US dollar in 1999 and left it at N230 in 2015. The futile attempt to misrepresent Tinubu by the mischievous PDP media did not detract from his central message. Our candidate explicitly said the people should not follow PDP and Atiku because they don’t know the road,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), yesterday, launched an App, Thinking Caps, to mobilise Nigerian youths for its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima.
Speaking during the launch, the PCC said that the App is to prove that its presidential candidate and his running mate possess the requisite capacity to think out of the box to procure lasting solutions to diverse socio-economic challenges confronting the country.
Director, Strategic Communication, Mallam Mohammed Idris, in his speech said that the App is targeted at explaining the capabilities of its presidential candidate to millions of Nigerian youths.
“The “Thinking Caps” is an epithet used to depict our presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, as possessing the requisite capacity to think out of the box to procure lasting solutions to diverse socio-economic challenges confronting our nation. The demographic analysis of our population shows that the youth aged 35 and below constitute over 60 per cent of our population. It means Nigeria is a very young country – too young to know that there was a world without computers and GSM phones, let alone internet and social media.”
