The Spokesperson of PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Atiku Campaign Organisation, Mr Charles Aniagwu has advised Nigerians not to submit themselves to the enslavement of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
Aniagwu, gave the advice during a press conference with Journalists in Asaba, Delta State.
He said Nigerians would be subjecting themselves to internal slavery if they allowed Tinubu to become Nigerian president.
He urged the masses not to allow Tinubu’s dictatorship style of leadershipcontinue, adding that the APC Presidential candidate with his family controls the revenue of Lagos State and was looking for a means to extend same control on the other 35 states of the country.
He admonished Nigerians to avoid repeating the mistake Lagosians made by allowing him control everything that happens in the entire state.
According to Aniagwu, most of the major projects and programmes, such as the signage, BRT, collection of taxes, amongst others in Lagos were controlled by Tinubu and his family.
“Needn’t I mention other sources of revenue that Lagos should have benefited from and you also know how he handpicks those who will govern Lagos to the extent that Ambode, a man that was doing well was taken out because he disagreed with them on how to share the funds of the people of Lagos.” He said.
He said for such a person to aspire to govern our country, it will be very detrimental to all of us.
“If we don’t want to submit ourselves to slavery, Nigerians must stop Tinubu from crossing Lagos into the other 35 states and the FCT because that will amount to internal slavery for all of us where he alone will determine the next President and who gets what and not forces of democratic governance”.
“Our forefathers fought the slave masters and colonial masters and chased them away to where they came from, so we cannot afford to enthrone internal slave masters who will decide how the country would be governed”.
“As part of that unbridled quest to expand his grip and capture the states, they have cooked up stories because they have seen that Nigerians are convinced that Atiku Abubakar is a man that has what it takes to recover this country and place it on the path of growth and development.
“They have gone to wake up a blackmailer and they call him a whistle blower. Am sure that as journalists you know who a whistle blower is and who a blackmailer is.
According to him, the acclaimed whistle blower, Michael Achimugu was not a staff of Atiku Abubakar, he was a staff of one of the support groups with Atiku’s daughter, he was not employed to work for Atiku Abubakar.
“If all he does is to record his boss and his friend and you call that whistle blowing, all of you know that is not whistle blowing but blackmail and anybody who is a blackmailer cannot be taken seriously and we are not perturbed because it was not done with the intention to help our country”, he said.
He said as a campaign council we know what the issues are, that our youths are loosing their jobs and more than 133 million Nigerians were suffering from what they call multi-dimensional poverty and the economy was not in the best of shape while our unity is terribly challenged.
These challenges, he said bedevilling the nation were of utmost concern and how to solve them and not engage in mundane issues.
“There is also the need for our children to have the best of education to curb the ‘Jappa’ syndrome and of course to progress the country from a consumption atmosphere to a much more productive environment.
“Our desire is to get our economy working again, unite Nigerians against divisive tendencies, fix infrastructure, address insecurity which has stiffled productivity and weakened our fabrics as a nation.
“In doing so we will amend the constitution give way for state police and other matters. The APC has not given the country any hope in the past let alone renewing it so we cannot afford to allow them enslave the rest of the country,” he said.
“Any attempt to raise issues that doesn’t add up so that they can have their way to enslave the rest of us, we are asking Nigerians to be weary of him and ask Lagosians what they are going through in his hands”.
