Femi Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC) has berated the leadership of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for dragging his party to court and demanding the disqualification of its Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Truth Live News recalls that PDP’s campaign council spokesman Kola Ologbodiyan while speaking with newsmen yesterday disclosed that his party has approached the courts seeking the Tinubu’s disqualification over allegations bordering on conviction for trafficking narcotics in the United States.
Reacting to the development on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Fani-Kayode described the claims as baseless and accused PDP of initiating of as a smokescreen tactic to deflect from the APC’s own case against the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for alleged corruption.
“This is a simple lie. A fallacious mendacity. Complete falsehood. He (Tinubu) was never convicted. The Americans themselves said that he was not indicted and neither was he convicted.
“Yet, they keep bleating like little children about these things. There’s no basis in reality in it. It’s a very simple thing. For us, this a civic duty.
“We need to be responsible and it is our duty to expose Atiku for what he really is and we will continue to do that. They have tried to respond by bringing all manner of insults, all manner of fake allegations without any credible evidence.
“If you have that kind of evidence, present it before the public and let us see. Then we will consider what you’re saying. So, then stop throwing bricks where you have nothing inside them to carry weight,” he said.
Meanwhile, the PDP PCC had earlier on Monday revealed that it had commenced a legal process to disqualify the APC presidential candidate from contesting the 2023 presidential election.
Ologbodiyan also said the PDP is asking the court to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately delist Bola Tinubu as presidential candidate of the APC or any other political party.
PDPThe party says it is filing for an accelerated hearing in the interest of the country’s legal stance on ex-convicts and their rights to contest an election.