The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Tinubu to tell Buhari to join the retirees’ club the same way he counselled former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida to quit politics.

Such a club, he said, best suits the president.

The PDP added that the APC national leader’s stance completely vindicated its position that Buhari should not seek re-election in 2019, having failed in governance and nation building, saying the president ought to step aside because of his inability to connect with the social and economic realities and speed of the current generation.

The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday said Tinubu was proverbially passing a message to Buhari and his supporters as the president no longer enjoys mass acceptance among Nigerians ahead of the 2019 general election.

It said: “Every discerning Nigerian has discovered the fact that Tinubu is subtly passing a critical message to President Buhari and his supporters that he should not contest the 2019 election and that Nigerians have already moved on even without them.

“Even Tinubu knows that President Buhari, for obvious reasons, is the most qualified of all our elder statesmen to join the retiree’s club and save the nation the agony of more years of misrule characterised by untold economic hardship, heavy bloodletting and general indignation.”

The party said supporters of Buhari should, therefore, accept the reality by reading the handwriting on the wall and heed wise counsel from well-meaning Nigerians.

According to the PDP, “In any case, the APC is already on a death row, having led the worst government in the history of our country and will end up as the first party in government at the centre that will be rejected by Nigerians at a second attempt.

“It is to this end that the repositioned PDP has opened its doors to all in the patriotic quest to end the APC misrule by ensuring a new engagement among Nigerians from all walks of life.”

THISDAY