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Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is seeking to come back to power to “devour what it could not take initially”.

PDP was in power from 1999 to 2015, before President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC took over.

Speaking on Tuesday at a campaign rally in Ilorin, Kwara capital city, the former governor of Lagos said if elected, Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the PDP, would sell the country’s assets for personal gains.

Tinubu said Nigerians must not let the PDP come back to power.

“Do not let them back in. They only want to devour what they could not take the first time. If you give them the chance, they will strip Kwara and Nigeria bare to the bone,” he said.

“The PDP candidate in the race is well known for selling everything that has the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s name on it. If it is part of the public treasury or national patrimony, he is looking to pawn it to one of his shady partners.

“He wants to sell off your chance at a decent job, good schools, a nice home and a happy life. His aim is to sell and turn our public assets into his private profit. He wants you to go hungry so that he can feast off the abundance of the land.

“Before today, we used to call him Mr. Privatise. But today, we must give him a new name. One that comes from his own mouth.

“He is now Mr. SPV. From his own mouth, we have heard him admit that he and his old boss conspired to rob from the Nigerian treasury millions upon millions of dollars.”

The APC presidential candidate said if elected, he would return farming to its glorious past of profitability.

“Farmers will be paid the full value of their toil and their produce. This will be achieved through commodity exchange boards setting a minimum price for strategic agricultural produce,” he said.

“We shall create agricultural hubs throughout Nigeria. These hubs will increase land under cultivation.

“They will also wed small, medium and large farms so that small farms will benefit from the expertise and equipment of the larger ones.”