Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\nHe also raised concerns over reports of an accident involving supporters travelling from Sokoto and Abuja to attend the rally, while acknowledging that details remained unconfirmed.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cMore troubling still, reports have emerged of an accident involving APC supporters travelling from Sokoto and also from Abuja to the rally. Details remain unconfirmed, and the APC must urgently account for the passengers\u2019 safety,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
The ADC campaign official accused the ruling party of prioritising the appearance of a large crowd over the welfare of supporters transported to the rally.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cMaking citizens endure long, hazardous journeys and sleep outdoors simply to create rally optics is political exploitation, not leadership,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe APC cares more about the appearance of a crowd than the safety and dignity of the people it transports.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Shaibu also questioned Tinubu\u2019s campaign schedule, claiming that the President was campaigning in only 12 states because supporters were being moved from one rally venue to another.\n<\/p>\n
He argued that the practice undermined the APC\u2019s claim to widespread support across the country.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThose journeys will consume meaningful time. Tinubu knows what happens if the crowd fails to reach the next destination: he may be left addressing empty seats\u2014or, as the saying goes, talking to the birds,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Shaibu added, \u201cA campaign that must transport its audience from state to state cannot pass off that audience as spontaneous nationwide support.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
He maintained that assembling crowds and displaying campaign billboards would not necessarily translate into electoral support for the ruling party.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can hire buses, assemble a crowd and plaster the streets with billboards. You cannot hire consent.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigerians have endured the APC\u2019s punishing prices, shrinking incomes and broken promises. No parade, press statement or insult can conceal their growing rejection of this record,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
The ADC official also dismissed the APC\u2019s attacks on Atiku as a distraction from the economic challenges facing households.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe APC\u2019s failures are sweeping, painful and indefensible. Its boastful promises have collapsed into a miserable reality of expensive food, unaffordable transport and families forced to make do with less.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cAlake\u2019s attack on Atiku will not reduce the cost of a meal by one naira,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Shaibu expressed confidence that Nigerians would vote against the APC, accusing the party of clinging to power despite what he described as its poor performance.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe real desperados are those clinging to power while the country burns. At the polls, Nigerians will reject this discredited record and defeat the APC. No volume of propaganda can talk the party out of the reckoning it has earned,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
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