The presidential candidate had compared Nigeria’s compliance with global climate change directives to preventing “a church rat from eating poisoned holy communion”.
Nigerians who had doubts about the presence of mind of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, are now convinced that he is not fit, the spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Management Committee, Dino Melaye has said.
Melaye stated this in a statement following some controversial statements made in public by Tinubu, with the latest coming as his response to a question about climate change.
The presidential candidate had compared Nigeria’s compliance with global climate change directives to preventing “a church rat from eating poisoned holy communion”.
But Melaye in a statement said “it would have been honourable for Tinubu to simply admit that he didn’t know what climate change is”. “Again, that exposed his limited understanding and poor preparation for governance,” Melaye said.
He added that any leader who does not understand the basics of climate change, especially with the ongoing flooding in Nigeria and the economic conflict arising from farmers and herders’ crisis, has no business aspiring to lead the country at this moment.
According to him, Tinubu plunged into new depths of desecration by allegedly disrespecting the body of Christ.
Melaye alleged that the former Lagos State governor trivialised the existential threat that climate change poses to humanity, adding that the APC presidential candidate fell out of tune with world leaders in ways that betrayed a lack of understanding of what the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr called the “Fierce Urgency of Now”.
The former lawmaker lamented that Tinubu rubbed insult on injury by calling in the Holy Communion into an unrelated conversation after overlooking Christians in his choice of a running mate.
Tinubu had picked former Borno governor, Kashim Shettima, who is a fellow Muslim, as his running mate, angering many Christians in the country.
He said, “Besides, Nigerians who have been in doubt about the presence of mind and the physiological capacity of Tinubu to preside over the affairs of Nigeria should now be convinced that he is not fit.
“For a moment, his thought processes tripped and he launched into another issue entirely. Nigerians could imagine if what happened in Kaduna had happened on the world stage. As I said earlier, Nigerians cannot afford to gamble with the next election.
“An Atiku presidency will not only be at home with global issues anywhere and anytime. He would build bridges and partnerships to address contemporary and emerging issues with pace, purpose and patience. He will collaborate with others to contain the causes and effects of climate change and more importantly, he will work for structures that will help Nigeria to build resilience and adaptation to climate change, particularly in climate-smart agriculture and other strategic initiatives.”
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