The Makinde-Daura Presidential Campaign Organization (MDPCO) slams President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) for again descending further into public ignominy by shamelessly appropriating unique ideas in the manifesto of the Presidential Candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Engr. Seyi Makinde and presenting same as theirs in the APC manifesto.
This wad contained in a statement signed by the Director, Strategic Communications MDPCO, Richard Nnanna Ihediwa said the MDPCO particularly draws attention to the embarrassing oral plagiarism and theft of idea by the APC in the opening of President Tinubu’s Manifesto with Makinde’s Presidential campaign unique and popular catchphrase, of resetting to – a Nigeria that works for all Nigerians – without acknowledgment.
This intellectual appropriation amounts to a tacit admission that Makinde’s RESET Nigeria vision offers an unassailable alternative to President Tinubu’s faltering leadership.
The MDPCO however states that though President Tinubu can copy Makinde’s ideas, he manifestly lacks the leadership capacity, intellectual depth, physical vigour and integrity to implement Makinde’s core vision of ‘Nigeria that work for all Nigerians’
The APC has unwittingly exposed its intellectual bankruptcy and policy deficit. Unfortunately, stealing APM’s idea does not confer on the APC the capacity or ideological commitment to implement them. APC’s record of regressive economic policies, indiscriminate fiscal burdens and disregard for citizens’ welfare exposes a governing philosophy fundamentally at odds with the people-centred vision of RESET Nigeria.
In any event, our campaign is not surprised that apart from ideas stolen from Makinde vision, which the APC cannot implement, President Tinubu and the APC presented a woeful compendium of lies and deceit laced with bogus claims and projections they cannot achieve to Nigerians as Tinubu’s 2027 election Manifesto.
Tinubu’s promise in his manifesto to ensure stronger security, 6 per cent annual economic growth, lower living costs, 10,000 MW of electricity, 200,000 homes, stronger industry, trade and investment; a flagship industrial hub in each geopolitical zone, more non-oil exports, one million export-linked jobs for young Nigerians, deployment of 20,000 additional teachers among others, all rest on the false foundation of a government with the most damning indictment for failed promises.
It is instructive that President Tinubu has no concrete and operable commitment and strategy on how to revamp the nation’s ailing productive sector, create new jobs, reduce government borrowing and repay the N166,7 trillion foreign loans accumulated under President Tinubu’s watch.
It is therefore ludicrous that the APC-led Federal Government that woefully failed to implement its promises to Nigerians in nearly four years now, wants to make Nigerians believe that it can implement the provisions of a Manifesto that is built on deceit.
Ironically, President Tinubu’s own record in office is the most condemning indictment of his promise to make Nigeria work for all. How can Tinubu claim to envision a Nigeria that work for all, when he endorsed a N1,400 per liter pump price of fuel in country in a country where N70,000 minimum wage cannot meet a week’s supply for an average household?
How can Nigeria work for all under President Tinubu whose administration glee in imposing stringent taxes and other thoughtless economic policies that continue to enrich a few while condemning millions of other Nigerians to a life of misery and abject poverty?
Nigeria cannot work for all under President Tinubu whose record in politics since 1999 has been that of extracting, squeezing and overtaxing impoverished Nigerians, while the APC elite luxuriate in extravagant opulence, reminiscent of the excesses of Louis XVI’s France; a trait the APC will not change.
Makinde and APM’s philosophy on the other hand, as contained in the RESET Nigeria Manifesto is fundamentally different. It is people before statistics, human welfare before fiscal triumphalism, and economic growth measured not by government revenue but by improved livelihoods, jobs, purchasing power and shared prosperity.
The MDPCO therefore calls on Nigerians not to be distracted but remain focused in their determination to Reset Nigeria by electing Engr Makinde on the platform of the APM, come January 16, 2027.
