The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to a comment credited to Senator Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Recall that Tinubu in a televised broadcast had said that the people of Edo State should not vote for Governor Godwin Obaseki in the coming election because he didn’t partake in June 12 struggle that berthed the country’s democracy.

He also appealed to Edo voters to reject Governor Obaseki, candidate of the PDP in the election, saying as a dictator, the governor does not deserve a single vote in the election for non-performance and violation of democratic values.

Reacting to the statement by Senator Tinubu, the PDP cautioned him to desist from arrogating powers he doesn’t have to himself, especially on this weekend’s governorship election in Edo state.

“I want to appeal to you to reject Godwin Obaseki in this coming election. I have suffered with many others to bring about this democratic regime, that today, we are enjoying in the country. Godwin Obaseki didn’t participate in any aspect of the struggle to enshrine democracy in the country.

“Obaseki does not deserve any democratic ballot paper. Don’t vote for him, I appeal to all of you,” Tinubu had stated.

However, speaking in an interview, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, said the broadcast made by Tinubu on the Edo governorship election is ill-conceived and will have no bearing on the outcome of the election.

According to him, Tinubu’s claim that Obaseki was not part of the June 12 struggle does not hold water as President Muhammadu Buhari whom Tinubu assisted to win the Presidential election in 2015 and 2019 was also not part of the struggle.

“I do not think that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was rightly advised on that broadcast. I do not know why he will arrogate to himself the powers that he doesn’t have. Some of the issues that he raised in that broadcast were totally misplaced.

“As a matter of fact, the basis of his argument against Governor Godwin Obaseki is too illogical. He claimed that Governor Obaseki was not there when they were fighting for democracy and June 12 struggle.

“The question many Nigerians should ask him is, ‘Was Buhari with them when they were fighting for June 12?’

“Tinubu played a huge role in the emergence of Buhari in 2015 and 2019; was Buhari part of the June 12 struggle? “General Muhammadu Buhari, as he was then called and known was in league with the Sani Abacha regime then.

“So, I think those who advised Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to make that broadcast truly misadvised. We in PDP consider that address as ill-conceived and has no bearing whatsoever to democracy and the Edo election.”