Tinubu’s Campaign List is an Assembly of Discredited Yes Men, Says Opposition APM 

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Chuks Okocha in Abuja 

The Allied Peoples’ Movement (APM), has dismissed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Campaign Council list as an assembly of disconnected “yes men” and discredited politicians, who do not command the requisite public affinity, loyalty and confidence to drive a winning presidential campaign.

The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Abubukar Yusuf, asserted that the list was populated mostly with known political sycophants, inconsistent characters and ideology turncoats including failed state governors, who were recently booed in Osun State and ethically challenged politicians, seeking official cover for corruption charges and other atrocities they committed against Nigerians.

APM further said that, ''The campaign list as published by the Tinubu Presidency has finally confirmed our earlier stand that President Tinubu is not in the shape to command the support of patriotic citizens because of his horrible performance in office.

''The choice of Campaign Director General in former Zamfara State Governor Abdul-Aziz Yari under whose failed watch banditry and mass killings escalated in the state, who government refused to implement the national minimum wage for workers and under whose administration youth unemployment, out-of-school children and general living standard came to their worst figures, speak volumes of President Tinubu’s view of governance.

''If after three and half years in power, President Tinubu could not garner the capacity to assemble a credible team, then it is clear that indeed he has no business being in charge of a nation as complex and demanding as Nigeria.

''In any event, our party did expect President Tinubu to enjoy the support of well-meaning Nigerians given his calamitous failures in governance.

''This is because any Nigerian supporting President Tinubu’s re-election  is directly endorsing the re-election of a hopeless and rudderless administration under whose failed watch no fewer than 628,000 Nigerians have been killed with over 2.2 million others including children abducted in just three and half years following the Tinubu administration’s lack of commitment to the security, safety and wellbeing of our citizens.

''How can any well-meaning Nigerian campaign for an administration that has ruined our economy with ill-advised and ill-implemented anti-people policies resulting in the crippling of our national productive sectors, pushing over 140 million Nigerians below poverty line with over 33% unemployment rate and a comatose national infrastructure?'', Yusuf stated.

The APM, therefore, counseled the Tinubu Campaign Council to note that their mission was dead on arrival, saying the Osun governorship election experience should serve as a pointer to them that President Tinubu could not win the 2027 presidential election.