Former Minister of Sport and Youth Development and member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Solomon Dalung, has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of commencing campaign for his re-election.
Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune in Jos on Monday, Dalung, who served in the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari, accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of plotting against the ADC.
He stated that no leader of the ADC is motivated by personal ambition to become president, stressing that they are only motivated by a desire to rescue the country from the APC administration.
Dalung said ADC chieftains are yet to officially declare their presidential ambition, adding that while many of the stalwarts are eminently qualified, they are responsible citizens who would not want to violate the electoral guidelines.
He said: “To the best of my knowledge, none of them has declared presidential ambition. If they declare, they are supposed to hold a press conference to inform Nigeria that they intend to run for the highest office in the country, but this has not happened.
“Even if they have done that, it is belated. In the past two years, Tinubu has been campaigning. In his one year in office, he launched billboards for 2027. In the second year he introduced the gale of defection, he has been converting most of his functions to rallies. The president has been campaigning, and the opposition has just started, so the opposition should be commended. Those declaring now are patriots of this country; the government has distracted itself.”
Dalung explained that the ambition to transform and make the country great cannot be a bad ambition because a bad ambition is when it is for a selfish or personal interest.
He said: “They are patriotic Nigerians; they have never been president; they might have been governor, and if you want to judge them, you go to their state and check what they have done while in office. Some of them have performed wonderfully in their states. You cannot say they should not be president because they had been governor before. I think we should judge their performance with their scorecards.”
The former minister assured that ADC will give Nigeria a presidential candidate who would meet their expectations, adding “so we are not bothered about the APC propaganda machinery; they are standing on the pedestal of their monumental failure to accuse those who have modest achievements to present to the people.”
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