The party was reacting to Tinubu’s remarks on President Olusegun Obasanjo following the latter’s public letter in which he questioned the fitness of the President for the exalted office beyond 2019.

Describing the former governor’s comments as disrespectful and reckless, PDP in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan said “Tinubu in his tirade against the former President sounded like a disrobed ruler facing a pang of defeat as he watches his empire being legitimately taken.”

The statement read: “It is shocking that Asiwaju of Lagos can be in cahoots with President Muhammadu Buhari, who has always been in league with all known dictators, while at the same time claiming to be on the side of democrats.

“It is however not a surprise that Tinubu is in severe pain because President Obasanjo exposed their rigging plans. Asiwaju had always won elections for himself and his cronies through rigging and this account for his bitterness.

“His reliance on rigging was typified in the Osun election where results were manipulated in order not to ‘disgrace’ the fading politics of the Asiwaju of Lagos.

“Let it be placed on record that the story of that election has not been fully told by Tinubu in his snide remarks against President Obasanjo. He chose to be silent on that phone call which was clandestinely put across to Abuja, consequent upon which the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared an election already won by the PDP, as inconclusive. Since the matter is in court, we will not join Tinubu in abusing court processes.”

However, if Tinubu today denies his affinity with Atiku Abubakar, which is well known in the entire nation, then he can deny even his own existence,” the statement continued, adding that “it is an established fact that Obasanjo remains a statesman and a global figure who always speak the truth to power and put the interest of our nation above all. On the commitment to anti-graft war, the party further noted that “President Obasanjo and PDP genuinely fought corruption in this country.

In the same vein, with the establishment of Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Special Fraud Intelligence Unit, SFIU in the police as well as the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, to investigate economic crimes and corruption activities as well as trial of Nigerians believed to have committed wrongdoings.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/pdp-chides-tinubu-over-comments-on-obasanjo/