A chieftain of the Labour Party and political economist Pat Utomi has challenged the candidate of the All Progressives Congress,APC, Bola Tinubu to go for a medical checkup and make the result public.
He claimed the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate,Tinubu is unfit medically.
Renowned economist threw the challenge on Monday while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today, maintaining that the signs are there to show Tinubu is unfit for the post.
“Physically, you can see he is ailing. Let’s not kid ourselves. Let’s be honest,” he said during the show.
“American presidents go through medicals that are made public
“Let him (Tinubu) go through medicals with Nigerian doctors and make the result public.It is the lives of millions of people that we are dealing with.”
Prof. Utomi said the ruling party,APC, would have fielded another candidate in the person of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
“Our country has suffered so much.The vice-president Yemi Osinbajo would have been a fit person.Common,let’s not kid ourselves,let’s be honest,”he added
He hailed the decision of the Yoruba socio-cultural group Afenifere for reechoing its support for the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi.
At a press conference in the Ikoyi area of Lagos, the group said the decision was based on the “principle of justice, equity, and inclusiveness”.
“Peter Obi is the person of Igbo extraction that Afenifere has decided to support and back, he is the man we trust to restructure the country back to federalism on the assumption of office,” Afenifere leader Ayo Adebanjo said
Reacting, Utomi said,the group is on the right track as he dismissed insinuations that the Afenifere does not pull political weight.