Tinubu mocks PDP, Atiku, says he’s smarter, brilliant, courageous

President-Elect Bola Tinubu

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said the party has no worries about the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or engaging it in war of words ahead of the 2023 general election.

Tinubu said the APC, a “party of thinkers and doers”, needed no such engagement with the opposition party still struggling with its leadership.

The former governor of Lagos State, who said defeat await the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in 2023, stated that his team has the foresight to identify Nigeria’s problems and solve them.

Tinubu said this at the inauguration of campaign logo and vehicles of the ‘APC Northern Door-to-Door for Tinubu/Shettima 2023’ by the Northern APC Speakers Forum in Abuja on Saturday.

He said his team is also capable of creating prosperity for Nigeria and the citizens.

The APC presidential candidate said: “We are the party of progressive ideas. We want good education for our children, good development for Nigeria, prosperity for this country and for agriculture and agro-allied projects to be embarked upon.

“We have the confidence; we have what it takes. We have the courage. We have the determination. We have the perseverance.

“We shall not be hauling abuses at rival political parties. We are smarter. We are brilliant. We are courageous. We are not like them.

“They spent 16 years and forgot that railway infrastructure does haulage goods and humans across Nigeria,” Tinubu stated.

He, however, appreciated the forum for its gesture, saying: “You make life easier for us no `sisi’ is demanded from us. Vehicles are provided, logo is unveiled, confidence boosting measure established; forward looking and hope rekindled; good for the prosperity of our country.”

In his remarks, the party’s vice-presidential candidate, Sen. Kashim Shettima, expressed confidence that Tinubu’s leadership would build a new Nigeria.

Shettima said: “We are on the threshold of making history. The global economy is tinkering towards recession; the world has moved from the agricultural age to the industrial age.

“We have moved from mere industrial age to knowledge-driven Industrial Age.

“Who among the presidential candidates today has greater skills sets, the intellect and the capacity to move this nation forward other than Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,?” he queried.

Shettima added that the 2023 presidential election would be a payback time for Tinubu who he said sacrificed so much for the democracy of Nigeria but was humiliated politically.

He said Tinubu had also contributed to economic and human development across the country through the demonstration of his capacity at different level.

On his part, the Chairman, Northern APC Speakers Forum and Speaker of Kaduna State House of Assembly, Yusuf Zailani, said the members of the forum were prepared to work for overwhelming victory for Tinubu.

The Star