Segun Sowunmi, a former spokesman for the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is smarter than Peter Obi of the Labour Party and other opposition.
Sowunmi stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday.
The PDP chieftain said his recent meeting with the president did not translate to a betrayal of his affiliation with Atiku and the PDP.
“I am at liberty as an adult to take decisions. I am not tied to anybody. I am not anti-Tinubu.
“I own my mouth, I own my words, and I own my arguments. I’ve been in this party forever. The only time we go to them is after they’ve lost and we need to shore them up.
“Do you know the difference between Bola and them? He doesn’t have one approach to dealing with everybody. By miles, he (Tinubu) is smarter than them. He is smarter than Peter Obi, he is smarter than them,” the former critic of the president said.
On arguments that he had betrayed Atiku, Sowunmi said the former vice president was running a coalition that he was not part of.
“Is he (Atiku) running for president now? He’s running a coalition that everybody knows I am not part of. Why would even in your wildest dream think I don’t have my individuality because of what? Do you know how long I have been in the party?” he queried.
Sowunmi said the president invited him to his Bourdillon residence in the highbrow Ikoyi area of the state during the Eid celebrations.
He said having been in office for two years, “it’s not a bad time to have a conversation with the President”.
Sowunmi said, “I was concerned that this democracy was faltering and I don’t think it was his fault. I do not understand after about 24 years, political parties would just suddenly assume that they have an escape route of blaming others for their woes. I didn’t like that.
“I began to be a little bit uncomfortable with the demonising of all policies by those who don’t understand what it takes to design futuristic ideas that could work.
“I decided to engage him since people talk about his frailty. So, I jumped on that investigation.”
The PDP chieftain praised the mental agility of the president. “His brain is very alert, he is fit. You know when you are asking someone questions and he is answering without looking at the book.
Sowunmi said, “I was concerned that this democracy was faltering and I don’t think it was his fault. I do not understand after about 24 years, political parties would just suddenly assume that they have an escape route of blaming others for their woes. I didn’t like that.
“I began to be a little bit uncomfortable with the demonising of all policies by those who don’t understand what it takes to design futuristic ideas that could work.
“I decided to engage him since people talk about his frailty. So, I jumped on that investigation.”
The PDP chieftain praised the mental agility of the president. “His brain is very alert, he is fit. You know when you are asking someone questions and he is answering without looking at the book.
