Tinubu should be replaced, lack wits to govern Nigeria — Atiku’s aide

Phrank Shaibu, the Special Assistant (Public Communications) to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, urged the All Progressives Congress on Sunday to replace Bola Tinubu in order to avoid more embarrassment in the 2023 election.

He claimed that, based on Tinubu’s statements and the scenarios caused by his continual slip-ups and gaffes, he should only be running for Grand Comedian of the Federal Republic and not Grand Commander.

Shaibu said these in a statement titled, “Tinubu should be Grand Comedian of the Federal Republic,” obtained by journalists in Abuja on Sunday.

“Tinubu may be a successful politician whose lifetime ambition is to be President of Nigeria, but it takes more than being a politician to become Nigeria’s President. Among other things, it takes credibility. The fact that everything about Tinubu is shrouded in secrecy should tell us that the APC presidential candidate lacks the credibility to govern a country like Nigeria.

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“But more importantly, with the disaster that the APC administration has turned out to be, it will be more catastrophic to have a Tinubu as his successor. Governing Nigeria is not all about identifying surrogates who will man critical political offices for future political gains. Nigeria needs a debonair, cerebral, healthy, and suave President — a man in the mould of Atiku Abubakar,” Shaibu said.

According to him, it had become public knowledge that every time Tinubu came out in public to make a statement or two, he always goofed.

He said, “In his latest gaffe at the Lagos rally, he asked Nigerians to get their APV in order to vote for APC when even primary school children know that the PVC is the only item that admits a voter into a polling unit.

“If he is not saying that voter’s card has an expiration date, he is saying that young Nigerians are tweeting on WhatsApp or that 50 million youths should be recruited into the Nigerian Army and be fed with cassava in the morning, and ‘agbado’ in the night. How can you say Nigerians are tweeting on WhatsApp? Common, is that the kind of person we want to hand 21st Century Nigeria over to?

“Without mincing words, Tinubu’s gaffes already supply comedians, skit makers, meme-makers, and TikTokers with content. He is a self-writing joke and will make Nigeria a bye-word for scorn among the comity of nations, which is why he shouldn’t get close to power.