Adeyanju said Atiku who should be in Osun to work towards the victory of his party in the state governorship election to hold on Saturday, July 16, 2022, was still abroad five days before the election.
Human rights activist, Deji Adeyanju has taken a swipe at the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, describing both of them as unserious.
Adeyanju said Atiku who should be in Osun to work towards the victory of his party in the state governorship election to hold on Saturday, July 16, 2022, was still abroad five days before the election.
"Atiku is still abroad and the Osun election is in 5 days. Very unserious presidential candidate. Useless party in power and Nigeria currently plagued with the most useless opposition political parties," he tweeted on Monday.
Also, in a tweet on Sunday, Adeyanju lambasted the party for failing in its role as a major opposition to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The tweet followed an announcement by Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate on Sunday that his running mate for the 2023 election is a former Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, a fellow Muslim.
The Christian community has kicked against the choice of Shettima as the ruling party’s vice-presidential candidate, saying it is wrong for a party to have presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the same faith.
“PDP is a very useless opposition. Imagine PDP doing a same religion ticket in 2015. The country would have almost gone up in smoke by now,” he said.
In an earlier tweet on Sunday, Adeyanju said, “The reason they can dare such a brazen move of Muslim-Muslim ticket is because they know the opposition is useless and divided. And they will win if the opposition don’t heed my wise counsel.”
In February, SaharaReporters reported Adeyanju condemned the PDP, alleging that the party had been dormant since its defeat in the 2015 presidential election.
Adeyanju, in an open letter, addressed to the National Chairman of the PDP, noted that the PDP despite being a major opposition had simply watched on despite the anti-people policies by the APC-led government of the day.
According to him, despite the anti-people policies of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration including the humiliation of judges in 2016; refusal of President Buhari to sign the Electoral Act; accumulated loans and human rights abuses, the PDP only issued press releases that were hardly widely calculated.
He further urged the party to challenge the policies of the current administration that were not favourable to the people else it would give room for the citizenry to fight the one-party system in the country.