The Chief Whip of the Senate and former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu has said he does not believe the incoherent statements attributed to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress were made by him.
Since he made his intention to contest for the presidency public, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has been under strict scrutiny by Nigerians for his alleged poor health condition.
His many public gaffes, which critics say are symptoms of dementia, are constantly being highlighted as Nigerians get ready to elect a new leader on 25 February, 2023.
Before the commencement of political campaigns, many Nigerians had expressed reservations about Tinubu ‘s state of health, wondering whether he would be able to withstand the rigours of the campaign activities or not.
However, to the surprise of many, the former Governor of Lagos State has turned up for all the political engagements and activities of the party.
The political engagements, which included rallies, and various town hall meetings, have been a success to a large extent.
Nevertheless, some gaffes made by Tinubu have overshadowed his sterling outings.
Maybe it was based on this that Tinubu admitted in a video that trended on social media that he has stopped using social media due to a series of abuse and insults hauled at him.
A dose of what to expect at the campaigns of the ruling party was first served in October during the 7th edition of Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit (KADInvest 7.0), where Tinubu said the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai “turned a rotten situation to bad one”.
Moreso, while speaking at the flag-off of his campaign in Plateau State, Tinubu concluded his speech by saying, “God bless PD…APC.”
At the same event, Tinubu made another goof when he referred to the Director-General of his campaign council, Simon Lalong, as Solomon Dalong.
At a meeting with private sector stakeholders in Owerri, Imo State recently, Tinubu uttered some words that arguably sounded gibberish as he tried to justify his shunning of town hall and debates organized by media organizations during his remarks.
He said: “A town hall is different from ‘balabloo-blu-bulava’” to the consternation of the audience.
It was clear if the APC standard bearer was struggling to pronounce ‘hullabaloo’, but the apparent gaffe elicited much criticism among Nigerians.
But Kalu said the presidential candidate does not have any health problems.
The former Governor of Abia State said this on Political Paradigm, a recorded programme on Channels Television.
“His (Tinubu’s) health is very stable. No man above 40 is not sick. There is not one, no Nigerian above 40 that is not sick,” Kalu said.
Kalu said it’s not true that the APC presidential candidate recently sounded incoherent on campaign grounds, adding that the unclear statements attributed to Tinubu were forged internet users.
“These are things you people go to form. You go to use the internet and all the rest of them to do it”, he said.
He added that even though he was not at the campaign ground where Tinubu suffered the baba blue gaffe, he won’t believe anyone saying the ruling party’s presidential candidate made the statement.
Meanwhile, Tinubu has repeatedly dismissed the claim that he is not fit to run for the office of the president.
In an interview he recently granted Freedom Radio, while on lesser Hajj in Saudi Arabia, the APC Presidential candidate described the claim that he is not physically fit to rule Nigeria as fake news.
He said those making such insinuations about him have nothing else to say but lies and rubbish.
