The All Progressives Congress (APC) has addressed the PDP Chairman Bamanga Tukur saying that only Nigerians can decide whether or not President Goodluck Jonathan will rule beyond 2015.
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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