How Tinubu And Other APC Leaders Would Have Been Retired Politically -- Garba Shehu

 The Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, has averred that many of the leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, would have been compulsorily retired if Atiku Abubakar of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, or Peter Obi of the Labour Party, had won in the February 25 presidential elections.

This would mean president-elect, Tinubu who is the APC National Leader and many of the party stalwarts would have been out of the political scene for a long time.

According to Shehu, the victory of the President-elect and Vice President-elect, Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, respectively and the established control of the APC in 21 out of 36 states in the last general elections, firmly established the party as a dominant national Political Party.

The presidential aide was speaking while receiving the Arewa Young Lawyers’ Forum, AYLF, the umbrella body for all young lawyers in the Northern part of Nigeria.

In the words of the presidential spokesman:

 ‘‘This is a difficult reality for the opposition parties.”

Garba Shehu said the victory of the opposition in the general election would not only have been a career-ending moment for many APC leaders but would also have had negative consequences for the various programmes of the Buhari administration that empowered marginalised groups and remedied much of the nation’s infrastructure deficit.

Shehu speaking through Patience Tilley-Gyado, the Deputy Director, Information, State House, said:

“APC victory in the election is a watershed moment for the Buhari government, its orientation, its programmes and projects.

‘‘In the hands of the opposition, many of the laudable programmes of the Buhari administration would have been sabotaged or unimplemented.

“An important and overlooked aspect of the Tinubu/Shettima victory is that it ensures, not only an orderly transfer of power from the outgoing administration to the incoming one, but also the safety of policies and programmes of the outgoing government.

‘‘For this, we remain grateful to the Almighty, and to citizens of Nigeria for sticking with our Party.”