Tinubu’s counsel good for Buhari — PDP

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said the advice by APC national leader, Tinubu, that Nigeria’s ex-Presidents should quit politics and join the retirees’ club should be heeded by President Buhari in the interest of the nation.

The party said Tinubu’s position completely vindicated the positions of former Presidents, including Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, PDP as well as majority of Nigerians, who believe President Buhari should not seek re-election in 2019, having failed woefully in  governance and nation building.

The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, yesterday, said the former Lagos State governor had invariably weighed Buhari and found him unfit to remain in office beyond 2019.

The statement read: “Every discerning Nigerian has discovered the fact that Tinubu is subtly passing a critical message to President Buhari and his supporters that he should not contest the 2019 election and that Nigerians have already moved on even without them.”

“Even Tinubu knows that President Buhari, for obvious reasons, is  the most qualified of all our elder statesmen to join the retiree’s club  and save the nation the agony of more years of misrule characterized by  untold economic hardship, heavy bloodletting and general indignation.

“The supporters of President Buhari should therefore accept the reality  by reading the handwriting on the wall and heed wise counsel from well-  meaning Nigerians. In any case, the APC is already on a death throe, having led the worst  government in the history of our nation and will end up as the first  party in government at the centre that will be rejected by Nigerians at  a second attempt.”