The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Thursday said that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, is jealous of his (Tinubu’s) achievements. The former Lagos State governor who used the idiom, “the blind cannot lead the blind” berated Obasanjo over his endorsement of Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 presidential poll.
Ex-President, Obasanjo Backing Peter Obi Like ‘The Blind Leading The Blind’ – APC Presidential Candidate, TinubuThe former Lagos State governor who used the idiom, “the blind cannot lead the blind” berated Obasanjo over his endorsement of Peter Obi of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential poll.The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress , Bola Tinubu, on Thursday said that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, is jealous of his achievements.
Tinubu made this known while speaking at a rally held at the University of Benin Sports Complex in Benin City, the Edo State capital, adding that Obasanjo’s endorsement of of Peter Obi would not work or make any difference in the outcome of the election by February. He also accused Obasanjo and his then Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, who was now the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party , of corruption, while lleging that both Obasanjo and Atiku seized the Federal Government’s allocation to Lagos and used “Nigeria’s funds” to buy cars for their girlfriends through shady privatisation scheme.
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