A veteran journalist with the Arise News, Reuben Abati while reacting to the statements of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu that the PDP ought to have been forgotten by Nigerians because of the party’s antecedents in Nigeria said the APC has not been different in delivering the dividends of democracy to Nigerians. Abati said,
“We’re seeing it again and again on this program that Nigerians will be more interested in what politicians seeking top positions in 2023 intend to do for Nigeria to move the country forward. In the UK, later today, we expect the next prime minister to be announced. The conversation given in the UK is still about issues, about what to do for the people, they were promising that one of the first things they will do will be to announce an economic package that will address the cost of living prices and the business crashes in the United Kingdom.
“But by comparison, in Nigeria over the weekend, look at the kind of platitudes that our politicians have been focusing upon, and that characteristic is becoming typical and we just hope that when the campaign starts officially on September 20, there will be a difference in the tune of the politicians that will move from rhetoric to real substance that it will break down for us in terms of granular details. Tinubu was quoted as having spoken at the launch of the door-to-door campaign for his vice presidential candidate, Kashim shettima, the former governor and he said look, the PDP lacks direction and that they shouldn’t even be in any opposition and that the PDP is a failed party and all of that, okay. What do you expect him to say? As the APC presidential candidate, he will not use any platform to promote the People’s Democratic Party in any case?”