The statement
appeared as the reaction to Tukur’s claims that the President
will rule till 2019, and hand over the power to the youths.
The statement by the
Interim National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, issued in
Abuja on October 30, 2013, Wednesday, reminded Tukur that one of his
predecessors once boasted, in another euphoric moment that “the PDP will rule
for 60 years”, only for him to leave office shortly thereafter.
“There is nothing on
ground to justify Tukur’s empty boast, which is again being oiled in readiness
for 2015.
“It is interesting
that the Chairman said the future belongs to the youths and that the era of
Gerontocracy is gone. The last time we checked, a 78-year-old man does not
exactly belong to the generation of youths, even if he continues to hold away
at the top echelon of the ruling party. The sincerity of that statement is
therefore in doubt.
“As for the PDP
Chairman’s admonition to the youth to start preparing to take over the mantle
of leadership, the question to ask is whether or not the undergraduates in the
nation’s public universities, who have been marooned at home for over four
months now because the PDP-led Federal Government repudiated the agreement it
signed with ASUU, are not part of the leaders of tomorrow?
“If Tukur believes
they are, he should urgently prevail on the government sired by his party to
meet its obligation to ASUU and end the strike by the university teachers. Then
we will know that he is serious about his postulation. Until then, we say talk
is cheap” the statement by the APC said.
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