Ex-presidential aspirant of the Young Progressives Party, Adamu Garba, has told the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to step down for the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, ahead of the forthcoming 2023 presidential election.
Garba said this in a tweet on Thursday night, following pictures that circulated on social media of Obi’s Port Harcourt rally with the location half full.
The APC chieftain further accused Obi of isolating the South-East at the centre, describing Obi’s Port Harcourt rally as disappointing.
Garba tweeted, “Peter Obi’s disappointing rally in Port Harcourt today should serve as a perfect breakfast from his aspiration.
“He should immediately step down and endorse the real and truly prepared Presidential Candidate; Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu & stop isolating Southeast from the center,” Garba said.
However, when asked the position he (Peter Obi) would be given if he accepts to step down for Tinubu, Garba opined: “He’ll be assigned to monitor Alaka bridge & keep counting daily container traffic to and from Apapa ports. That’ll fit him because he loves containers too much.”
Recall that Mr Garba left APC in May, after raising N83 million to buy the presidential nomination form of the ruling party but decamped to the YPP where he contested the primaries of the party but lost.
In July 2022, Ex-presidential aspirant of the Young Progressives Party, rejoined the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Mr Garba, a social media influencer, announced his return to the ruling party. “Yes, I am fully back to APC. I could do more harm to my country, Nigeria if I did not support a combination of a great strategist and a great tactician on a single ticket.
“It is BAT/Hashim that should take over all polling units in Nigeria come 2023. RE-DECAMPED!” he tweeted.
However,the politician said he left the APC because the leadership of the party was promoting anti-democratic policies that sought to exclude youths and people with progressive ideology from inclusive politics.
He said, “What informed my decision were certain steps the party had taken over time that seem to betray the tenets of democracy. A situation where people went for a convention and it turned out to be an enthronement.
“At the same time, we young people in the party are completely alienated. The more you bring new ideas, new solutions and suggest changes, the more you are perceived as an enemy and somebody that should be thrown out of the window.
“The other reason is the over-monetisation of the system of the political process. It is a threat to our future as young people. We have ‘monetised’ everything, from health care to education, roads and even the office that is supposed to deliver the goods. That’s one thing that made me conclude that the party really doesn’t represent the future.”
But two months after he jumped ship, Garba took to his official Twitter account to announce his return to the ruling party.
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