*says PDP will dislodge APC in 2023
By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The immediate past Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, Alhaji Kunmi Mustapha on Monday said the recent launched book by former interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is a weapon of blackmail against opposition figures in the country to soften grounds for a Tinubu Presidential campaign in 2023.
Alhaji Kunmi Mustapha in a statement in Ibadan described the book as ” an instrument of campaign of calumny against opposing leaders and political leaders that are against the interest of Asiwaju Tinubu.
According to Alhaji Mustapha, based on the extracts from the book on Chief Bisi Akande’s autobiography titled ‘My Participations” now subjects of discussion in the country, “it is safe to say the book was a weapon of blackmail against opposition figures in the country in order to soften ground for a Tinubu Presidential campaign in 2023”.
” For Chief Akande to have written a book detailing his political participation at his old age without hammering on the fault lines in his own party and that of his fellow leaders of APC, it indicated that the book was published to serve narrow interest, rather than to contribute to political history and academic excellence in Nigeria”, he said.
Alhaji Mustapha added, ” it is not just funny but frightening that such a old man will publish a book at his twilight and exclude the negative contributions of his own political associates and party to the present state of Nigeria, people say it is when one gets old that he is always telling the truth, such is not about Baba Akande.”
“Nigerians have seen that the book is an instrument of campaign of calumny against opposing leaders and political leaders that are against the interest of the author’s benefactor, who is Senator Bola Tinubu, it is an attempt to sweep the floor for Tinubu to sit or roll on, it is just a pity that an old man was used to do such job,”
Alhaji Mustapha stressed furtherthat come 2023, PDP has regained the confidence of Nigerians and is poised to wrestle power from the APC as the party (APC) has shown from all indications that it is incapable of leading Nigeria to the promised land.
The former PDP Chairman stated that APC has failed Nigerians in critical sectors that it promised to work on during the 2015 campaigns, especially in the areas of economic growth, internal security and provision of employment opportunities for the teeming youths.
He maintained that ” only those who do not wish Nigeria well will still be fronting for APC at this critical time in the history of Nigeria, the economy is down, Nigeria has become the butt of ridicule amongst her peers in the world, insecurity news is now erratic, we cannot continue this way”.
Emphasizing that ” this is the time we all have to support the National Working Committee of PDP that has been saddled with the assignment to rescue Nigeria so they can achieve success”, Alhaji Mustapha tasked Nigerians to reject the subtle attempt by the APC to perpetuate itself in power beyond 2023,
