In a new statement, Bola Tinubu claims he is being hounded by PDD
because he refused the Vice presidential position offered him,on the
condition he parts ways with Buahri... The statement reads,
With the election less than three weeks away and the outcome possibly
against them, the Goodluck Jonathan Presidency and the hardliners in the
PDP have embarked on a new strategy to put brake on the momentum APC
presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari seems to be gathering.
This
strategy is novel and seems to be the outcome of a desperate calculation
in that the PDP has shifted its attention from the APC in order to
attack on multiple fronts the former governor of Lagos state and APC
national leader, Bola Tinubu.
From what can be gathered through
informed sources, the PDP and Jonathan Presidency had recently tried to
fracture the APC by offering Tinubu the position of vice President in an
interim government if he would agree to part company with the popular
Buhari.
Once Tinubu rebuffed the offer to
participate in the interim scheme, the presidency decided to change
tactics. It would no longer try to entice Tinubu with sugar but would
now move to silence and if necessary neutralize him.
The APC National
leader has caused President Jonathan’s team countless headaches this
campaign season, his declining the interim government offer is just the
latest. The Jonathan government sees Tinubu as the linchpin of the APC
and its successful electoral strategy.
They also consider him one of the government’s most prolific and able
critics due to his longstanding and often strident critiques of Jonathan
government policies, from economic development to national security.
More to the point, they blame him as the man who is most responsible for placing them in their current electoral quandary.
They believe without Tinubu’s efforts the successful merger of the
political parties into the All Progressives Congress, APC, would not
have occurred and they would not be facing possible defeat at the hands
of this new party.
The PDP faces its stiffest competition ever in 16
years and the person they blame the most is Tinubu, the major actor who
is seen as the strategic mind of the new party and one person who must
be stopped at all cost. General Buhari has since been penciled down for
similar character assassination and vicious insults alongside other
leaders of the APC.
The agenda to tackle Bola Tinubu and weaken his
political influence nationwide and to undermine his leadership in South
Western politics can be said to have gone into overdrive.
The first
part of the strategy is to dredge previously discredited claims of
illicit wealth in hopes of silencing Tinubu or lessening his public
image. However, they fear this public relations attack may be too soft
as Tinubu has been taken before the ICPC and the case against him
dismissed. If this attack does not deter his party activities, the
presidency and PDP are prepared to take more drastic action if they
believe it necessary to win the election by throwing the APC into
disarray.
This part of the plot has two options, the first of which is to employ
trained snipers to attack Tinubu or assassinate him out rightly. This
plan is consistent with the warning made by former President Obasanjo in
his now famous 2014 letter to President Jonathan. Those within the PDP
favouring this approach argue that when Chief Bola Ige, a powerful
politician was murdered, heavens did not fall even though the then
President was a Yoruba man. The second option more crafty. The PDP will
seek to resuscitate the case of the murder of Funso Williams a former
Lagos gubernatorial candidate by blaming Tinubu for the killing.
They are already coaching inmates and others. They are offering them the
promise of early release and money if they will make statements
implicating Tinubu in the Williams murder. The presidency intends to
rush through this process with the hope of putting Tinubu out of
circulation by trapping him in a contrived criminal process until the
elections are over. Tinubu is not taking these revelations lightly
knowing well the capacity of this government for devilish acts.
For the party that boasts it will rule Nigeria for 60 years, it has
become an unexpected season of political desperation. The PDP is worried
that on March 28, they will discover that they have fallen 44 years
short of their dynastic goal. By all accounts, this has caused them to
consider very drastic plots and schemes.
Nigerians are confronted with a ruling party willing to descend to the
lowest in order to win elections. Perceived political enemies are being
hunted. Trumped-up allegations are being manufactured daily from the
government factory of lies to taint the leading figures in the All
Progressives Party, APC."
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