The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is a party full of termites and looters.
The former Lagos State Governor was speaking at the inauguration of the APC women campaign council in Abuja on Monday, said PDP sixteen years in government was characterized with many negativities adding that they shall never return to power again
“Our opponents spent 16 years, they had forgotten that the highway is an economy, electricity is mandatory for industrialisation. They don’t understand the transmission lines and the need for maintenance,”
“They couldn’t make a down payment for the trail track. They are a political party of termites,”he said
“A nation is not built on abusive language.Sixteen(16) years of rudderless and ditching the wool. PDP shall never come back again. Never again.
“Who are they? They are looters. Go out there and tell them. A new hope is here.Tell them today is women’s day. You are following the man who knows the way.”
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Tinubu extolled President Muhammad Buhari for fulfilling his promises during his campaign in 2015 adding that the president when he took over government as at the time nothing was functioning well in the country especially the insurgency that had ravaged North-East and he was able to deliver the region from the bondage of Boko Haram.
The former lawmaker also, revealed the meaning behind the logo on his cap which he described as a “broken shackle”
“The design on this cap is a broken shackle. We are breaking the shackle of poverty and destitution. In the last eight years, it has been a party that inherited a troublesome nation under the weight of uncertainty,” he said.
“We took over the worst pricing of crude oil but still, the very determined, focused person(Buhari) was able to bail 36 states of this country who were not able to pay salaries.”
Tinubu added that it is “easy to forget the situation of the country” before Buhari was elected president.
Speaking earlier, his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu described Tinubu-Shettima presidency as the “best option” for Nigerian women after President Muhammad Buhari
“The track record of both men (Tinubu and Kashim Shettima) are gender-sensitive,” Mrs Tinubu said
She also called on the over 1,250 women in attendance to mobilise votes for the APC standard bearer in their various constituencies.
President Muhammadu Buhari was represented by his Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari.
Also present at the event Tinubu’s running mate, Shettima and his wife,Nana Shettima, National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu; First Lady Aisha Buhari
Others are the Chairman of the Presidential Campaign Council, Governor Simon Lalong; Governors Hope Uzodinma; Abdullahi Ganduje; Women Leader of the APC, Beta Edu; Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, other leaders of the party; National Assembly members and others.