Presidential candidate of Nigeria's ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, today reiterated that there was no truth in the insinuation posed by a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu that an offer of vice-presidential slot in a proposed Interim National Government was extended to him.
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Reuben Abati, while addressing State House correspondents said Tinubu’s claim is absurd and ridiculous.
According to Abati, "If you de-construct the statement that purportedly emanated from the office of Asiwaju Tinubu, you will see again the absurd nature of it.
"The absolutely ridiculous nature of it in the sense that given the configuration of Nigeria, it is not likely, totally impossible to have an ING arrangement in which you will have a southerner as the President and then another southerner as Vice President.
"It is absurd. It is not something that is likely to work given the nature of our politics. But the Tinubu camp, putting out that statement, were so much in a hurry to engage in their usual game of deceiving the public of propagandaism of the current electoral process, that the emptiness, the hollowness, the shallowness of their proposition escaped them.
"But our appeal to Nigerians is that this country is greater than everyone’s ambition and at the end of the day what is important is Nigeria.
"And those who seem determined to pull down this country with lies, with black information, they are the enemies of this country and do not deserve to be given the opportunity to occupy, to enjoy opportunities that they do not deserve."
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