Dear Nigerians, Don’t Accept PDP’s Apology, They Can’t Come Back – Tinubu

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Thursday charged Nigerians not to accept the apology of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  after the party engaged in massive looting of the nation’s treasury.
Tinubu, who spoke at the 10th Colloquium to mark his 66th birthday in Victoria Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, said Nigerians must be wary of the antics of the PDP and ensured that the party did not return to power.

“It is not an easy task at all. Dear Nigerians, do not take their apology. They lied. They falsified. They even changed figures. For 16 years, they made fake promises and gave us fake figures. And they said we should not talk about it. It is like saying after all they did wrong, do not look at me. Just steal your own. We have a nation to rescue.  We have hope to build Nigeria. We have the lead. We have the people to invest in,” he said.

Tinubu also admitted that life was full of challenges and that such challenges made life pleasant.
“Life is not without challenges. As a political party, we showed everyone our logo like money and sugar. Our logo with a united Nigeria, we focused against terrorism, corruption and promote economic revival of the country and investing in people. I have an already prepared speech but I just have to abandon it considering what I have seen here.

“I can see what the government is doing with so little resources. But the idea and the fact that they are doing it with beneficiaries and the fact that it is demonstrated in practical terms is what we need to get our country from the hook of corrupt officers,” he said.
Tinubu lambasted the PDP for saying that the APC government should talk about the corruption under the former President Goodluck Jonathan administration, saying that the APC would continue to talk about it.

“They even said that we should not talk about it. But seriously, what should we then talk about. After we came into office, we discovered the looting and thievery. And after assuming office, we should then join you in the act? We would encourage such act? We are not talking about the need of Nigerians. Then what is the most interesting thing to Nigerians?

“Please, forget those opposition parties; they will not come back to power. There is no nation that is not facing challenges; even America is facing its own. Then who are we? How many years of democracy have we practiced? We didn’t say that Nigerians will not enjoy. But we have to report back to the millions of Nigerians that elected us into office that this is what we found when we assumed office.
“And that we will not take it off our mind no matter how twisting the mind of PDP and their supporters may be. We will continue to talk about it because you wasted our resources and didn’t do what you promised Nigerians when you were in office. The market gave you the maximum and production was also at maximum,” he stated.
Tinubu also took a swipe at former President Olusegun Obasanjo for writing what he called political letter to President Muhammadu Buhari asking him not to contest for the 2019 presidential election.
He said Obasanjo wrote the letter as if he had never been in that terrain before, as the letter was merely political and should be discarded.