Many have expressed worry over the mental fitness of the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, after the incoherent reply he gave when asked about how he intends to tackle climate change.
Tinubu, while fielding questions about climate change at the Arewa Interactive Committee event, described climate change as “A question of how do you prevent a church rat from eating poisoned Holy Communion.”
“We are a poor nation. They say firewood is not for fetching. They say we need to plant more trees and they are not giving us money. We need to tell the West, if you don’t guarantee our finances and work with us to stop this, we are not going to comply with your climate change,” Tinubu said.
The recent blunder is coming 48 hours after he described the governor of Kaduna State as being creative in turning a rotten situation to a bad one during his address at the seventh Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit
In recent times, massive flooding has ravaged communities across the country, displacing citizens and submerging farmlands.
Mr Tinubu’s response that he would not comply with precautionary actions except if being funded by the West suggests that Nigerians would have to suffer the devastating effect of flood triggered by climate if he wins next year’s election.
Meanwhile, reacting to the statement, the spokesperson of the People’s Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Management Committee, Dino Melaye, has said that Bola Tinubu, is neither fit nor prepared for the Nigerian presidency.
Melaye described Tinubu’s statement as unguarded and an insult to Christians.
In his statement, he said: “The APC presidential candidate, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, plunged into new depths of desecration when, by an unguarded and unrelated flow of thought, he despised the body of Christ by profaning the sacrament of communion and besmirching the church”.