Arise Television’s Morning Show anchor, Rufai Oseni, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu lacks the capability to campaign extensively throughout Nigeria forward of the 2027 common election.
Oseni dismissed strategies that Tinubu’s reported choice to campaign in solely 12 states was a strategic transfer, arguing that the president was unable to undertake a wider campaign.
He made the remarks on Friday whereas discussing political developments forward of the 2027 presidential election.
According to the broadcaster, Tinubu campaigned extensively throughout states in the course of the 2023 common election, together with when he was not the presidential candidate.
Oseni additionally cited former President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign technique, noting that Buhari generally visited two states in a single day to full his campaign inside 18 days.
He mentioned the argument that Tinubu’s restricted campaign schedule was strategic amounted to self-deception.
“The argument now that they are making, that a lot of them are saying President Tinubu now campaigning in those 12 states are strategic. It’s not strategy. He doesn’t have the capacity to campaign. Let’s stop deceiving ourselves,” Oseni mentioned.
“In the final election, he campaigned in many of the states. In the election that was not even his, he went spherical and campaigned.
“Even Buhari that lots of people solid aspersions at, what Buhari simply did was that in some cases he lined two states in a day, in order that he was ready to condense every part into 18 days.
“He doesn’t just have the capacity to campaign. So let’s continue to deceive ourselves. You see, when I talk about Nigeria, I’m at sea as regards the level of deceit and personal deceit we have for ourselves, and that’s why this country doesn’t move forward, and that’s why the things we talked about in 2015, we’ll keep talking about them today again,” he added.
