Tinubu and Atiku’s aides argue over APC rally mistake

Mr. Phrank Shaibu, the Special Assistant on Public Communications to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has asked the All Progressives Congress to replace its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to evade further embarrassment to the party.

Shaibu stated this following a gaffe Tinubu allegedly committed on Saturday at a Lagos rally, where he mispronounced permanent voter cards (PVC) as APV.

The presidential candidate had, while addressing party members, said, “Do you love me?” Do you love me? “Go and take your APV and APC, and you must vote.”

Atiku’s aide, in a statement, said Tinubu should be replaced “to avoid further embarrassing scenarios occasioned by his continued miscues and gaffes.”

He said, “It is public knowledge that every time Tinubu has come out in public to make a statement or two, he has always goofed.”

“In his latest gaffe at the Lagos rally, he asked Nigerians to get their APV to vote for APC when even primary schoolchildren know that the PVC is the only item that admits a voter into a polling unit.

However, the director of media and publicity for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga, described the gaffe as a non-issue.

He said, “It is a campaign of nitpicking.” It is surprising that Shaibu left out the germane issues raised by Aswáj at the rallies in Abakaliki, Warri, Gbaramatu, and Lagos about how the PDP looted the Nigerian commonwealth in its 16 years in power, how it failed to solve the electricity crisis, rail problems, road problems, and so on. “Only an unserious party and candidate will be concerned with unimportant matters like speech slips.”

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