Tinubu in Benue: PDP sabotaging fuel supply to blackmail Buhari

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has again accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of sabotaging fuel supply in the country to blackmail President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for illicit political advantage.

Tinubu said the PDP-led administration, while in power, gave fuel retail licenses to its supporters who he said are now hoarding fuel to create long queues across the country and making Nigerians suffer.

He added that the party of his challenger, Atiku Abubakar, is “a Poverty Development Party”.

The APC presidential candidate said this at the party’s presidential campaign rally in Makurdi, the Benue State capital on Thursday.

“They met good oil prices for 16 good years, they didn’t remember gas pipelines, they are what I called saboteurs yesterday. They gave PMS license to their supporters and sympathisers. They are the ones who started creating fake queues. PDP, enough is enough,” Tinubu said.

Taking further swipe at Atiku, the APC presidential flag-bearer said the former Vice President didn’t know that he broke the civil service rule in Nigeria when he said he was doing transport business when he was in Customs Service.

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“They asked him, you are so rich, where did you get your money from, and he said from doing transport business. He didn’t know that was an offence. The only thing you are allowed to do as a civil servant is farming,” Tinubu added.

Speaking on his promises for the people of Benue State, Tinubu assured that his administration, if elected as president in the forthcoming general election, would ensure access to quality education and education loans to allow brilliant and indigent students to have higher education.

He further used his achievements in Lagos State as governor as the reasons the people of Benue State should vote for him, stressing that they will not be owed salaries.

Tinubu also promised to end the problem of IDPs in the state, saying: “I am proud of what we accomplished in Lagos. I am so proud of it, I do not run off to live elsewhere. I live where my policies and programmes worked. Obi left Anambra because his policies and programmes failed. Just as we improved Lagos, we shall lead Nigeria to its greatest destiny.”

Tinubu equally promised to establish agricultural and industrial hubs, which he said would help expand businesses and improve local incomes.

He also promised to make Benue a global leader in agriculture, bringing further income to the state.

On security, the former Lagos State Governor said: “My administration will also invest in the quality of our democratic governance and in what must be our democratic security. We have heard your pleas. We know of the insecurity, of the violent clashes and of the loss of lives and property.

“Our security agenda will work. It will protect the people and secure the land. My national security plan invests heavily in surveillance equipment, in technology and training of our security forces. We stop the terrorists, kidnappers, killers and bandits.

“We will mobilise the totality of our national security assets to protect all Nigerians from real danger and from the real fear of danger.”

Speaking at the rally, the Minister of Special Duties and former governor of Benue State, Sen. George Akume, extolled Tinubu’s leadership qualities and magnanimity, urging the people of the state to vote for the APC presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election.

Other dignitaries at the rally included the APC’s vice presidential candidate, Sen. Kashim Shettima; Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello; and former Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, among others.

The Star