Okowa Has Replied Tinubu Over Comment On His Personality
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Governor of Delta State and Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ifeanyi Okowa, has slammed the presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, over a recent comment.
Tinubu had in a recent statement reportedly claimed that his running mate and former Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, was better than him.
Reacting, Okowa in a statement on Friday by his spokesman, Olisa Ifeajika, advised Tinubu to discuss issues confronting the nation and not individuals.
He added that the Atiku Abubakar/Ifeanyi Okowa ticket was a big threat to the ruling APC and the former Lagos Governor is scared of losing the 2023 presidential election to the PDP.
Okowa said that he was chosen as Atiku’s running mate due to his soaring political profile, his contributions to national development and his exceptional performance as governor in the last seven years.
He said the choice of who was the better vice presidential candidate and the party to vote for remained with Nigerians and not for one individual to try to influence by speaking derogatorily about opponents.
He said: “Alhaji Atiku Abubakar had an interview on Arise TV some days ago where he said that Sen. Bola Tinubu approached him to become his running mate of the defunct ACN in 2007, but that he (Atiku) declined the request because he was averse to Muslim-Muslim ticket.
“In response to Atiku’s comments, rather than address the issues Atiku Abubakar raised, Senator Tinubu took a swipe at our governor, saying that his own running mate was better than Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s choice of Senator Okowa.
“We know Senator Bola Tinubu as a good politician and former governor of Lagos State. But we expect him to know that there are other politicians that are towering and are good, patriotic and have tried in their tracks to be statesmen.
And, Delta Gôvernor and by the grace of God, Vice-Presidential Candidate of PDP, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, is in this bracket. If Tinubu thinks that he is good, he should not foreclose that there won’t be other persons that are good or even better in politics where he thrives.
“It was his choice to pick his own running mate for whatever criteria he had. The same considerations, no doubt, the Presidential Candidate of PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, had in choosing Senator Ifeanyi Okowa over all the other candidates screened.”
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