By
Fawaz Adebisi
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has knocked the People’s Democratic Party candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as he assured Nigerians that he cannot be killed.
Tinubu disclosed this on Saturday, November 26, 2022, at a rally, organised by the Lagos State government, in support of his presidential bid.
The rally which held at Teslim Balogun Stadium had in attendance the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola; Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed; Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Dare; and former Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi among others.
While addressing the public, Tinubu knocked Atiku, as he urged would-be voters to once again reject him, describing him as “selfish Atiku Abubakar, who has been running for the Presidency since 1999.”
The former Lagos State governor said: “I know one selfish man who has been running since 1999, that’s, Atiku. He contested on the PDP platform and also contested on the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) platform. He is ungrateful and now it is time you tell him through your vote that he should go and rest.
“Use your Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) to flog and retire him. He said he’s in PDP, don’t listen to him, I read what he said this morning and he claimed he’s running to better Nigeria’s future, whereas they were there for 16 years; they gave you estimated billing, they didn’t remember Badagry Road, they forgot the East-West road, they forgot Kafanchan, Sokoto, Kaduna roads. They forgot the Second Niger Bridge. They paid evil for good gestures, they are traitors.”
Speaking to those who wanted him dead, Tinubu recalled his mother always sing a song, which he cherished so much, “Dagunro o se pa, ipa te pa tete, e ma pa dagunro, dagunro o se pa,” which literarily means, “Dagunro is unkillable. The manner of death you rained on Spinach, never visit it on Dagunro.”
He therefore declared, he can’t be killed.
Underscoring the importance of sustaining the progressive governance in Lagos State, Tinubu, urged Lagosians to vote for Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu and his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, for second term.
He said, “Dear Lagosians, my appeal to you today, is to ask you to renew the mandate of Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Kadiri Obafemi Hamzat for another four years. Do not let the execution and implementation of the bold vision of more than two decades be aborted or suspended.”
For the stability of Lagos State, Asiwaju Tinubu called on the youths and students to vote for Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat.
Tinubu also urged the electorate to reject the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, noting that the party failed to deliver dividends of democracy to Nigerians for 16 years it governed the country.
He, however, promised to form a progressive government with massive investment in education, health, infrastructure, and job creation if elected as president, even as he assured Nigerians of better days ahead.
He therefore expressed satisfaction at the large turn out of Lagosians at the rally, the national chairman of the party, as Abdullahi Adamu urged Nigerians to vote for the APC presidential candidate, noting that “It is not over until it is over. For what we have seen, Asiwaju Tinubu is the president in waiting.”
Other APC chieftains at the rally include Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima, Governors Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Aminu Bello Masari (Katsina), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), Adegboyega Oyetola (Osun), Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa), Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq (Kwara) and Abiodun Oyebanji (Ekiti).
