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Saraki Senate Presidency: Tinubu​ Blasts President Buhari by whoawa(m): 4:19pm On Jun 16, 2015
A Former Governor of Lagos State and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu has surprisingly criticized President Muhammadu Buhari​,​​ ​saying he betrayed the party.

This is in the wake of events that led to the emergence of Ex-Kwara State Governor Bukola Saraki as the President of the Eighth Senate and the return of Chief Ike Ekweremadu as the Deputy Senate President for a​ ​third term.




Tinubu, who on Wednesday through the Nation Newspaper​,​ in an article titled “The untold story of PDP’s coup behind Saraki’s Senate Presidency” pointed an accusing finger at President Buhari for displaying neutrality in who emerges as the Senate President without due regard to the fate of the party.

According to Tinubu; “Despite the choice of National Assembly leaders being a mixture of party politics and legislative duty, the aloofness, or the perceived neutrality of the President allowed the ‘fight’ within APC to fester until it went of hand.”

He explained that the invitation of the APC lawmakers to the International Conference Centre, ICC, was said to be at the behest of the President; shockingly, the President did not show up.

“The bewildered 51 APC Senators, who were waiting endlessly for the President in ICC, watched the proceeding of the inaugural session from a nearby TV box.

“Before the 51 APC Senators could race down the five-kilometre stretch from ICC to the Assembly Complex, Saraki had emerged as an unopposed candidate.

“To add insult to injury, President Muhammadu Buhari neither showed up nor sent apology to the stranded Senators at the ICC.

“They were left at the mercy of troops from the Brigade of Guards, who had already been deployed in the centre ahead of the supposed arrival of the President.

“Unfortunately, there was no communication between his office and the 51 APC Senators who heeded his invitation.

“It was around 10.35am, we saw that the inaugural session was already on and Saraki had been elected. If we were to be defeated, it should have been done on the floor.”

In defence ​of President Buhari​,​ a highly-placed source, said: “The President had actually made up his mind to be at the ICC but there were feelers that some associates and strategists prevailed on him not to dabble in the selection of the Assembly leadership because he will portray himself as an inconsistent leader having promised not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Legislature.

“Probably acting a pro-Saraki’s script, these associates/strategists made the President to realise that his last-minute intervention would amount to dancing to the tune of one man: Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

“Even if President Buhari is not interested in a second term, he owes the APC a duty to keep the party intact.”

Tinubu therefore stressed that the coup in the National Assembly by PDP was a litmus test for Buhari’s leadership prowess.

“The President may need to assert himself by playing a fatherly role to reunite his political platform that is in tatters.

“When some leaders met with the President after the coup in the Senate, he was said to ‘be hollow’ without a solution to the crisis at hand. The time to act is now,” he emphasized.

The APC National leader berated Buhari for the refusal of the APC leadership to address the important index of power-sharing formula deprived its National Assembly members of the much-needed unity.

“If there had been an acceptable formula in place, the situation may not degenerate to this extent. What Saraki did was to be tactical in conceding the Deputy Senate President to the Southeast which is almost relegated to the background by the Buhari administration.”

“Unless an urgent reconciliation is put in place, the anti-party activities which led to Saraki’s Senate Presidency might cause a prolong crisis in the party. And with plans by the APC leadership to enforce discipline, some leaders might call it quit with the party,” Tinubu added.
Re: Saraki Senate Presidency: Tinubu​ Blasts President Buhari by dimensional(m): 4:21pm On Jun 16, 2015
APC still lamenting on this issue. We don tire abeg make una concentrate on job at hand CHANGE!!!

Nigerian leaders no plan for the common Nigerian, worst set of greedy people.

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Re: Saraki Senate Presidency: Tinubu​ Blasts President Buhari by Caseless: 4:29pm On Jun 16, 2015
It shall be well...
Re: Saraki Senate Presidency: Tinubu​ Blasts President Buhari by Nobody: 4:34pm On Jun 16, 2015
Let him cry an ocean u are all d same joor
Re: Saraki Senate Presidency: Tinubu​ Blasts President Buhari by neolboy(m): 4:48pm On Jun 16, 2015
cry for me cry for me. all those rainy days
Re: Saraki Senate Presidency: Tinubu​ Blasts President Buhari by Sapphire86(f): 4:54pm On Jun 16, 2015
But Tinubu should know that what goes around comes around. Jona Jona will be sipping English tea happily and saying 'change indeed'
Re: Saraki Senate Presidency: Tinubu​ Blasts President Buhari by rawtouch: 5:13pm On Jun 16, 2015
Why is he still crying over spilled milk
Re: Saraki Senate Presidency: Tinubu​ Blasts President Buhari by timijoseph01(m): 6:15pm On Jun 16, 2015
“Jonathan is not a bad leader as an individual
but when you surround yourself with people
with little or no political experience you get
what Jonathan got.”
When TINUBU made this statement, i smiled and said my self ''yeah, apc won; u cn say all u like, at least for some months''
A Yoruba Proverb says ''Saare always goes too far in his description of a leopard.''
Now same TINUBU is been dribbled hands down... The self-acclaimed Experice Politician now cries at every given oportunity..
Another says ''The-impatient-reporter, wife of the hunter, she says that her husband killed the first and killed the sixth.''
Sorry Tinubu.. GMB belong everybody and to nobody.! Cry Baby Cry..!!!

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