PDP Reacts As Tinubu Mistakenly Prays For The Party During Campaign In Plateau

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that the prayer erroneously made for the party on Tuesday by the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu is prophetic.

The PDP in a statement on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba said Tinubu’s prayer is an admission of his inner conviction that the major opposition party is the best for Nigeria.

CN  recalls Tinubu after delivering his speech on Tuesday at the flag off of his presidential campaign in Jos, prayed for Nigeria and mistakenly prayed for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Tinubu who suddenly realized he was calling PDP instead of his party, quickly corrected himself and mentioned APC twice.

However, Ologunagba in his reaction said Tinubu is invariably ruling himself and his party out of the 2023 race because they have failed and endorsed Atiku Abubakar.

The major opposition party also admonished Tinubu to drop out of the race and face the allegations of drug dealing against him.

The PDP statement read in part, “It is instructive to note that the APC presidential candidate had earlier in his address, admitted that Nigerians were “in distress” under his failed APC but that hope is on the way.

“Since Asiwaju Tinubu’s prophetic blessing on the PDP, our party has been receiving flurries of calls, solidarity messages and visits from key members of the APC, who believe that his prayer is a divine act of God to point the nation to the right direction.

“It is apparent that Asiwaju Tinubu was speaking under the ostensible weight of the recent revelation of his indictment for narcotic trafficking, which has become a huge burden from which he cannot extricate himself and for which he has lost all moral and legitimate capacity to occupy the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“This perhaps explains why Asiwaju Tinubu was incoherent and had no concrete message to Nigerians at the flag-off of his campaign.

“It was pathetic as Nigerians watched with pity as the APC presidential candidate, who is dazed by the intimidating credentials and popularity of the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, could not articulate any solution to the myriad of problems brought upon our nation by the failed APC which he boasted of having installed and superintends over as national leader.

“Asiwaju Tinubu could not proffer any solution or idea to the challenges of insecurity, disunity, unabated killings, rising unemployment, tumbling Naira, collapsing economy with unprecedented debts of over N40 trillion arising from somersaulting macro-economic policies of his failed and corrupt APC government.

“The PDP counsels the APC to note that Nigerians are not ready to listen to a presidential candidate like Asiwaju Tinubu, who continues to engage in insults, vituperations and uncontrolled outburst rather than focus on issue-based campaign.”

PDP charged the APC presidential candidate to be more concerned with the alleged narcotic indictment and inconsistencies in his biodata and work record, which Nigerians have the right to know.”