National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has laughed off reports that he has joined forces with senate president, Bukola Saraki, to scuttle President Buhari’s government as he is displeased with the recent ministerial list. Tinubu in a statement released by his spokesman Sunday Dare, described the report as an execrable lie. Read statement below;
“As party leader, Asiwaju is free of such constraints. He remains glued to the party decision that the manner by which Saraki captured his current seat travestied party discipline. It was a crass act of disloyalty showing that Saraki may have joined the APC on paper but has remained true to the malpractices and wrong aims of the reactionary PDP in his soul.
The idea of an alleged conspiracy between Tinubu and Saraki against the president is an execrable lie. Without any proof except the veil of innuendo. The story proclaims that the government is surveilling Asiwaju Tinubu because of his purported unhappiness about the ministerial list. “There has been no substantive communication between Asiwaju and Saraki since the latter decided to foul the integrity of the senate and the party. “Those who midwifed this garish tale give birth not to truth but to lies intended to kill APC unity and to retard the Buhari administration’s strategic reform initiatives, as earlier outlined by our party manifesto. Their claim is that Tinubu has joined with Saraki to scuttle the president’s ministerial nominations. They have misfired.
This ambiguity is in part purposeful; their villainy seeks to place the innocent on edge and to cause those who must work together if the nation is to progress to begin to doubt the bona fides of each other. With such a story, they hope to break the walls of confidence so that they may kindle mutual animus between the President and Tinubu. By getting the two to fight and weaken each other, they may then swoop down to destroy both.
Their wrong is a great wrong. Like the rest of us, Asiwaju Tinubu waited for the president to select his cabinet. The majority of the selections have been made. There is nothing to do but congratulate the appointees and pray for them. Their responsibilities are vast, the future of the nation now rests on their shoulders. The challenges before them are manifold and daunting. Those who want the best for Nigeria can only hope that these people succeed. The only intervention that Asiwaju Tinubu would make is one of encouragement. He would charge them to remain true to the progressive vision of the party and our president. None should allow themselves to be enticed to join league with those who would cast us back into the old mold of PDP governance: to Pilfer, Destroy and Pillage. Instead they should cohere faithfully to the enlightened programmes and promises made by our party and this government.
Other than voice this encouragement, Bola Tinubu will never say a negative word or lift a finger to forestall anyone’s approval before the senate.
To be truthful, I don’t think Saraki would care to hear what Asiwaju would have to say to him. He would admonish the senator to treat the nomination process with dispatch, justice, fairness, transparency, and most of all with the greatest patriotism,” the statement read. “He would counsel Saraki to shelve his personal situation for the moment to concentrate on the people’s business. It would be a grave mistake and abuse of office for Saraki to directly or indirectly inject his personal matter into the approval process. Saraki should not link the approval of a single minister to his desire for extrajudicial treatment of his issues.”
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