The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has decried a plot by some people to pit him against President Muhammadu Buhari.
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has decried a plot by some people to pit him against President Muhammadu Buhari.
Following a media report that claimed that Tinubu had accused the President of moving against the party by helping Senator Bukola Saraki to emerge as Senate President, the former Lagos State Governor has denied the report.
In a statement signed by Tinubu's media officer, Mr. Sunday Dare, Tinubu said he had never made a public statement about the National Assembly since Saraki and Yakubu Dogara emerged as Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively.
Tinubu also said he could never insult the President or castigate a government that he helped to form.
The statement read in part, “The story first published on an online news site and later parroted by other online news outlet is an example of irresponsible journalism. This story has no source. It is a blatant fabrication to serve the interest of its sponsors. Tinubu has not spoken about the Senate election. This story is a perverse fiction. Not journalism.
“He has never said these lies so wrongly attributed to him. There is no chance he will ever utter such words against President Buhari, a man he worked very hard for to become President, along with millions of Nigerians who voted. Tinubu would not accuse the President of plotting his own injury. If anything, he is alarmed by how this may impair the government’s substantive reform agenda.
“It is a mischievous attempt to drive a wedge between Tinubu and Buhari. There is no need to try to put words in Tinubu’s mouth. He will talk when and if it is necessary. His major preoccupation now is how Nigerians can support President Buhari and his administration to achieve the reform and change promised during the election.
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