Tinubu, Atiku Fights over fuel scarcity and anti-poll plot

The presidential standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council again clashed on Thursday over the allegation by Tinubu that the PDP was plotting to scatter the February election.

While Tinubu accused the PDP of embezzling the $16bn meant for the power sector, the Atiku-Okowa campaign council asked the Department of State Services and other agencies to investigate the ex-Lagos state governor for planning to undermine the country through a violent revolution and riot, aso Naija reports.

Addressing a mammoth crowd of supporters in Makurdi, the Benue State capital on Thursday, Tinubu said his previous comments on fuel scarcity and currency redesign were misinterpreted, stressing that what he meant was that the PDP neglected the oil industry and awarded oil blocs to themselves and their cronies.

He said, “They (PDP) met good oil prices for 16 good years, they didn’t remember gas pipelines. They are what I called saboteurs yesterday. They gave PMS licences to their supporters and sympathisers. They are the ones who started creating fake queues. PDP, enough is enough.”