The Peoples Democratic Party alleged on Wednesday that Prof. Yemi Osibajo was imposed as running mate on the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Major General Muhammadu Buhari.
The PDP said with this development, Buhari will not be in control if elected president in 2015.
The PDP said this in a press statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh.
The party pointed out however that it was not surprised by the trend of things in the APC, stressing that General Buhari has never been a man of his own in his previous public responsibilities.
According to the PDP’s statement: “This is not surprising of Buhari, who has consistently exhibited a track record of incompetence.
“This is the same man who, as military head of state, surrendered all his powers to his second in command.
“The story of his headship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) is not different, as he also got lost before the flurry of portfolios of paid consultants.”
It added that the choice of Osibajo, a well known acolyte of a national leader of the APC and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as General Buhari’s running mate, is a confirmation of PDP’s stand that the APC is the personal project of a cabal commanded by Tinubu to expand his (Tinubu’s) political and economic frontiers.
According to the PDP, Osibajo’s emergence, which came six days after Buhari’s emergence as the presidential candidate of APC, was the height of incompetence.
It therefore rhetorically added: “Should power get to this cabal, who is desperate to control the political and economic power centre of the nation, then Nigeria is finished.
“It is particularly worrisome that General Buhari has surrendered his first official responsibility of choosing a running mate, invariably his powers, to Tinubu even before he goes to the field to ask for votes.”
The party noted that the problem of APC is that it is a political party built on the narrow interests of very few individuals, pointing out that any political party that subjects its collective will to the whims of an individual, as it is with the APC, is indeed not ready for leadership.