APC tackles Tambuwal over comment on Tinubu’s re-election bid

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday took a swipe at former governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, over his comment against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu regarding the 2027 election. Tambuwal had during an interview on Channels Television on Friday said he is fully committed to ongoing efforts by opposition leaders to unseat […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday took a swipe at former governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, over his comment against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu regarding the 2027 election.

Tambuwal had during an interview on Channels Television on Friday said he is fully committed to ongoing efforts by opposition leaders to unseat President Tinubu in 2027.

But reacting to Tambuwal’s comment, the APC in a statement on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Felix Morka, said, “Resorting to emotional blackmail against the government as a device to shield himself or anyone from lawful scrutiny, investigation or prosecution for suspected heinous economic crimes will not and should not cut it as opposition sacred cows.”

Daily Trust reports that opposition leaders in the country notably, former vice president Atiku Abubakar; former presidential candidate of  the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi;  former governors of Kaduna and Rivers States – Nasir El-Rufai and Rotimi Amaechi; and many others have launched a campaign to stop Tinubu’s re-election in 2027.

But the APC said Tambuwal and other opposition figures have lost focus, stressing that like the recently conducted by-elections, the APC would defeat the opposition in the 2027 presidential poll.

“It is perplexing that these opposition leaders – the likes of Tambuwal, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Mr. Peter Obi and Mr. Rotimi Amechi – who have occupied some of the highest political offices in our country have failed, horridly and disgracefully, to provide leadership, purpose, direction and vitality to their parties.

“Rather than focus their attention and touted leadership abilities to building viable opposition parties, they prefer to play the blame game, pointing fingers at the APC for failure that is entirely their own.

“With nothing of value to offer Nigerians, these opposition elements have now turned political prophets trumpeting their base wishes and 2027 predictions that only truly portend the devastating defeat that awaits them at the voting thumbs of the good Nigerian electorate that have rejected them before, that rejected them in the recent bye-elections, and will reject them decisively, again, come 2027,” the APC said.