The All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos State chapter, has berated its Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart over calls by the latter for the Code of Conduct Tribunal to re-open the case against a former governor of the state and national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
The Lagos PDP on Monday called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Mr. Tinubu following the disclosure by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, last week that it discharged the APC chieftain in error during his trial five years ago, over allegedly operating foreign accounts while serving as governor.
But the Lagos APC described the call as an attempt to tarnish Tinubu’s image.
The State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe, in a statement, yesterday, said APC viewed the call “as silly rants of frustrated losers desperately splashing mud to tar others when they are facing weighty corruption cases”.
According to Mr. Igbokwe, the trial which happened during former President Goodluck Jonathan’s led government, was instigated by PDP.
“Lagos PDP and indeed the entire PDP are suffering acute Tinubu-phobia borne out of the fact that Asiwaju Tinubu constitutes the greatest nightmare for PDP rank and file given his prosecution of the defeat of the PDP last year”, he said.
The Lagos APC spokesman also described the PDP as a spent gathering of losers facing indictment for their role in the monumental corruption that marked the woeful PDP governance in the country.
