Why Tinubu Makes Off-Key Statements During Campaigns—APC

<h4>Why Tinubu Makes Off-Key Statements During Campaigns<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that the Minister of State for Labour and Productivity and spokesman of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 2023 presidential campaign&comma; Festus Keyamo has offered clarifications on the repeated gaffes by Tinubu during campaigns&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The spokesperson said there is nothing wrong in a few slips made by the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Tinubu had at the Lagos APC Presidential Rally on Saturday&comma; erroneously referred to the Permanent Voter Cards&comma; PVCs&comma; as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;APV” and urged Nigerians to get their APVs to vote in the 2023 general election&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;This is coming as some Nigerians have also attributed his gaffes at earlier rallies and events to old age&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;His words&colon; Do you love me&quest; Go and take your APV&comma; APC and you must vote&period; You must go that morning&comma;” he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; reacting&comma; Keyamo said making gaffes has nothing to do with age&comma; noting that the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party&comma; LP&comma; Peter Obi&comma; has been making gaffes without anyone making a fuss about it&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He noted further that famous speakers such as former <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">US President Barack Obama&comma; and the incumbent Joe Biden<&sol;a>&comma; had made gaffes during campaigns and as such&comma; Tinubu’s own is not peculiar&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I haven’t seen any headline anywhere about Peter Obi describing Nasarawa as a country&period; When he &lpar;Obi&rpar; said Nasarawa is a country and not a state&comma; did anybody make any news out of it&quest;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Obi has been fact-checked so many times and has been caught lying openly about statistics&comma; is it because of age&quest;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The best speakers in the world&comma; the most intelligent person&comma; once you are on the campaign trail&comma; you can make mistakes&period; Go and check candidates of the most civilised countries of the world&comma; including Britain make gaffes&period; Barack Obama made a lot of gaffes&comma; US President Joe Biden made a lot of gaffes”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When you are on the campaign trail of four to five months and you are speaking every day&comma; every minute to every people&comma; you are bound to make slips here and there&period; There is nothing serious about it&period; As long as you are sure of what you are saying and not saying something totally off-key&comma; there is no problem at all&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They are so much interested in Asiwaju that the moment he begins to talk&comma; every single member of the opposition parties is tuned to listening to whatever he wants to say&period; They listen to every sentence&comma; alphabet and every word he pronounces&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We in the APC are happy about that&period; It shows the level of interest they have in our candidate&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;17586" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-17586" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-17586" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Peter-Obi22-300x176&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Why Tinubu Makes " width&equals;"300" height&equals;"176" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-17586" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Peter Obi<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;