Political economist and a chieftain of the Labour Party, Prof. Pat Utomi has dared the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu to go for a medical checkup and make the resulting public claiming that he is unfit for the role.
He threw this challenge yesterday while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Politics Today which was monitored by Africa Today News, New York, stressing that the signs are there to indicate that Tinubu is unfit for the post.
‘Physically, you can see he is ailing. Let’s not kid ourselves. Let’s be honest,’ he said during the show.
Utomi debunked claims by the APC that Tinubu is fit, stating that “American presidents go through medicals.
‘Let him (Tinubu) go through medicals with Nigerian doctors and make it (result) public.’
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His stance, he argued, is because next year’s election and who leads the country is about ‘the lives of millions of people’.
According to him, the ruling party would have fielded another candidate in the person of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
‘Our country has suffered so much from having ailing leaders. That was why I can say here, that was why the Vice President stepped up,’ Utomi added, noting that Osinbajo ‘would have been a fit person’.
He also praised the Yoruba socio-cultural group Afenifere for reechoing its support for the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi.
At a press conference in the Ikoyi area of Lagos, the group said the decision was based on the ‘principle of justice, equity, and inclusiveness’.
Peter Obi is the person of Igbo extraction that Afenifere has decided to support and back, he is the man we trust to restructure the country back to federalism on the assumption of office,’ Afenifere leader Ayo Adebanjo added.
And as far as Utomi is concerned, the group is on the right track as he dismissed insinuations that the Afenifere does not pull political weight.