Endorsement lies with Nigerians, not on pages of newspapers, PDP cautions Tinubu

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC that the blanket endorsement of the President ahead of the 2027 presidential election does guarantee his victory.

The party described such hasty endorsements across board as a sign that the APC is becoming jittery ahead of the general election coming up in 2027.

Hon Debo Ologunagba, National Publicity Secretary of the party sounded this nite of caution on Monday during an interactive session with journalists at the PDP national headquarters in Abuja.

He asserted that the SPC has dashed the hope of millions of Nigerians while pretending to be working on a Renewed Hope Agenda manta.

According to him, “The fact is that they (the APC-led government) are not doing well, they have failed and they recognize that Nigerians truly know that this APC has failed the country.”

He said “endorsement is not on the pages of newspaper. Endorsement is in the people and people that cannot feed their families, when the school season resumes, people are panicking and people are complaining because they can’t even pay school fees.

Emphasizing that the APC government has failed Nigerians, Ologunagba said
“the fact is that they’re not doing well, they have failed and they recognize that Nigerians truly know that this APC has failed the country.

“The APC as a government takes lies and propaganda as an act of governance.

“The president said about a week ago, before the cameras, that the country has achieved its revenue target as at August and then you begin to ask yourself, is it a voodoo economy?

“What does the president say? There’s no reality, there’s no connection between what he’s saying and what you feel in the marketplace.

“If you’ve met your target then it means you’re probably having a surplus, if there’s a surplus then the people will feel it”.

Speaking further on the claim that the AOC is jittery, the spokesperson said
“the reason for this behaviour is because the APC, President Tinubu, they are jittery about the recalibration and the fact that a PDP that is well known to Nigeria, doing what it knows how to do best, which is reconciliation, getting people together, working together and giving everybody a sense of belonging and that’s why the APC is jittery.

“So, that’s why you find that they begin to campaign less than two years to the next election and the outcome of that is that they now calibrate to a new level where what they do is to get panicky and begin to do what I call endorsement shopping.

“The President and APC are looking for endorsement. If indeed the President is doing well and the APC is succeeding, you let your work speak for you. You don’t want to say come and endorse me. So it is panic mode.

Hon Ologunagba expressed confidence in the success of the November 15 and 16 national convention of the PDP holding in Ibadan

He said the outcome of the convention at Ibadan is going to give birth to a very solid party having regards to its character in the past.

“For 16 years, Nigerians remember with nostalgia the performance of this party where the country was going progressively towards a positive direction, we were going north but unfortunately the APC in the country going south.

“You recall some of those high points where under the PDP leadership in this country, this country paid off its debts, today we’re back in debt.

“Our party, after the convention, will be strong enough knowing fully well that the PDP knows the art of governance and the fact of the responsibility of governments in the people,” he said.