Why Tinubu Is Avoiding Public Debate – PDP Makes Daring Revelations

Why Tinubu Is Avoiding Public Debate – PDP Makes Daring Revelations

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has alleged that Bola Tinubu, the All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential candidate avoids public debates because he is afraid of being subjected to probing questions especially those based on his past, by Nigerians ahead of the 2023 election.

According to the Spokesperson of the Atiku Abubakar presidential Campaign Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, Tinubu and his running mate Kashim Shettima are afraid of having their acclaimed legacy project exposed as a hoax.

“Asiwaju Tinubu is also aware that he cannot face the public to answer questions bordering on his past, particularly, the question on his ancestry, the Alpha-Beta tax saga; as well as his alleged stranglehold on the business, politics and lives of Lagosians from 1999 till date.

“He is afraid of being exposed of fleecing Lagos State for eight years through multiple and harsh tax regimes with nothing to show other than rulership by brawl, breeding of touts and raising criminal street gangs, only to turn around now to attempt to claim the achievements of succeeding governors as his. While continuing to use Alpha-Beta to extort Lagosians for nearly 20 years. Alpha-Beta is the sole tax collecting agency in Lagos” Ologbondiyan said.

This comes after Tinubu and Shettima failed to honour the invite to a debate by Arise TV.

Ologbondiyan added;

“Nigerians will recall that the APC presidential candidate did not attend the signing of the National Peace Accord in Abuja; he failed to turn up at Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industries, he avoided the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Conference and shunned the televised debate organised by credible media houses and civil society groups in Abuja on Sunday to attend a marriage bash in the same nation’s capital.

“Is it not strange that Tinubu, who claims to be a progressive, is dodging debate, a hallmark of progressivism?

“Asiwaju Tinubu and Kashim Shettima have turned themselves into a butt of public joke over their reported inability to even defend the scripts that were written for them with spurious claims and litany of fake promises, which Nigerians have appropriately tagged as ‘Renewed Hopelessness’.”

“Is Senator Shettima afraid of explaining to Nigerians why his government did not heed to the alleged security warning and directive by the federal government to relocate the schoolgirls to a safer location, which would have averted the abduction?

“In shunning public debates, both Tinubu and Shettima have shown that they have nothing to offer and that they are in the presidential race just for personal aggrandisement and not to serve Nigerians.”