National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Thursday said the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, will be sent into retirement on Saturday.
Tinubu said this in a statement released by his media aide, Tunde Rahman.
“This election is more than a contest between two men, President Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, for that one exalted chair.
“Look, I have made no attempts to hide my friendship with Atiku. We are friends before this election and hopefully we will be friends after February 16 when he goes into retirement.
“For the good of Nigeria and even the good of Atiku himself, we will do well to send him into retirement on Saturday.
“Perhaps, we should also send (Peter) Obi into retirement along with his boss come February 16. Perhaps together they might manage to discover the place where they might learn compassion for the common man,” he said.
Tinubu said there was not much good that could be found in the policies and programmes announced by the PDP.
“Atiku’s answers to our economic challenges are to shrink and restrain government from being the active catalyst toward a diversified economy that assured broadly-shared prosperity through the just allocation of wealth and reward according to sweat and toil put forth by the Nigerian people.
“They seek an unfair, unjust and unequal Nigeria. Their definition of Nigeria is a nation run by the greedy, for the profit of the rich, at the command of the mighty,” he said.
Tinubu said that the objective of the APC was to remake Nigeria into a great nation.
