Tinubu, Atiku’s presidential tickets incurably defective – Akin Osuntokun

The newly appointed Director General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Akin Osuntokun, says the tickets held by the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, are defective.

Osuntokun bared his mind Wednesday night while speaking on Channel Television’s live interview programme, Politics Today, with Seun Okinbaloye.

Answering a question on the chances of Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, triumphing over Tinubu and Atiku in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election, Osuntokun, who took over from Dr Doyin Okupe as Obi’s campaign DG, pointed to the several public opinion polls, conducted by independent organisations, which put Obi ahead of his fellow competitors.

“Several polls that have come out, seven or eight, not less than six have projected him (Obi) as winner, including those who have absolutely no vested interest in the outcome of the election, like Bloomberg. So, why would you ask whether he has a chance?

“Are the other two (Tinubu and Atiku), candidates Nigerians should look forward to?

“He (Obi) has an antecedent; he was a governor of Anambra State for eight years. Just look at his record.

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“Those tickets (Tinubu and Atiku’s), as the lawyers would say, are incurably defective,” Osuntokun declared.

According to the erstwhile Special Adviser to former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria currently has an existential threat and its up to the voting public to make the right choice in electing a leader, in 2023, who will lead the country out of the present doldrums.

“The fundamental problem of Nigeria today is political mismanagement; the mismanagement of Nigeria’s diversity, the basis of our nationhood, when you destroy it rather than build it up, that is the main problem that we have.

“Those tickets that you have mentioned, that is what they represent,” Osuntokun said.

On a rumoured fresh alliance with the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), the former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said he was not aware of any such alliance with NNPP or any other party.

He, however, said it would be in the interest of Nigeria and Nigerians if the other parties align with Labour Party to reclaim the country for the people from the ruling APC.