2023: Atiku, Obi, Others Don’t Have Personal Integrity – APC Vice-chairman, Lukman
The National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, Salihu Lukman, has said all presidential candidates except his party’s flagbearer don’t have personal integrity.
He stated the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar; Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi; and New Nigeria Peoples Party (PDP), Rabiu Kwakwankso, among others are not trustworthy. The APC chieftain described three opposition presidential candidates are election merchants, stressing that his party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, is the only one who has not been on the ballot since 2003. Lukman asserted that Tinbu is the only presidential candidate that has not changed political parties on account of aspiring to contest elections. He said: “I actually raised the point of him not being on the ballot since 2003 on a positive note, just to demonstrate that he is not one of those I call election merchants. He wasn’t an election merchant. He had every reason to aspire in 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019. He had every reason to, but he didn’t. Instead, he engaged in politics differently in a way that produced a positive outcome in a different way. “The same cannot be said of other candidates, whether Atiku, Kwankwaso, or Obi. Of course, I will not descend to the level of challenging their competence. They may be competent, but not in terms of personal integrity and trustworthiness. “Our candidate is about the only one, together with his running mate, that has not changed political parties on account of aspiring to contest elections. This means they are people with some level of consciousness and integrity. What that means is that trust can be invested in them more than in people, who, when they don’t get what they want in a particular spot, move to another place. “For me, these are the issues to highlight. We are ready to debate it as a party with anybody. Not the other issues about health challenges, what have you, or things that cannot be verified. These ones I mentioned are verifiable. I think these are some of the points.”
This article was originally published on Naija News