Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Pary, LP has questioned the source of wealth of APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Obi in a now-viral video believed to be referencing Tinubu said the former Lagos state governor has made so much wealth without any company traced to him.
Recall that Dele Alake, one of the spokesmen of the APC presidential hopeful recently claimed that his principal made his fortunes from stocks he owns in blue chip companies across the world.
Alake said, Tinubu ”has been buying stocks and bonds and all of that. I am not a finance person. So, I am not going to be interested in the nitty-gritty of it all. But I know he has been trading in stocks.
“I know that when you trade in stocks and you are a finance person, you know how to juggle the stock market and all of that. Those who are adept at it know what I am talking about. They wouldn’t start questioning how he made his money from stocks.
“He was buying stocks of blue-chip companies and all of that. He was making money and he was spending money. He has been doing all of these years before he got into office,” Alake, a former Commissioner for Information in Lagos state said.
He added, “Why people are querying the source of his wealth is because he had been a successful governor of Lagos and a successful politician even after office.
“He is about the only one of the class of 1999 who is at that enviable political height today. He is bound to attract all of these negative comments. That, to him, was crucial.
“He made his money well before he got into office. I think what is important to Nigerians, really, is to know that this man was not a pauper before he came into office, like some others,” he said.
Alake however failed to mention companies where Tinubu owns shares.
Speaking Obi said Tinubu’s sources of wealth should be questioned, asking how the APC presidential candidate made so much wealth after losing so much during the late Gen. Sanni Abacha dictatorship.
Obi also urged Nigerians to take back their country from moneybags.
Referencing Tinubu, the LP presidential candidate noted, “What company gave this candidate who people claimed fought Abacha and lost everything own that gave him the money to buy two planes? Bad behavior has become a measure of success in Nigeria and we must all rise up and take back our country and rule it the right way.
“We have a crisis, a crisis; and that’s why I am pleading for all of us to take back our country. It’s our own; it’s not like any other country. When the leader is responsible to the people, they can question his rascality; his behavior must that of somebody who is sane and who wants to serve.”
