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No plan to quit APC, says Tinubu
Adebisi Onanuga by Adebisi Onanuga February 13, 2019
No plan to quit APC, says Tinubu
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Rumours that All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council Co-Chair Asiwaju Bola Tinubu plans to quit the ruling party were dismissed yesterday.

The APC chieftain’s Media Adviser Tunde Rahman said Tinubu remained unshaken in the ruling party.

The clarification put to rest speculations that the former Lagos State governor was through with the APC because of the disruption of the presidential campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Monday.

The rumour followed a video clip showing Asiwaju Tinubu at the APC Presidential Campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State, throwing the party’s flag to National Chairman Adams Oshiomhole.

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had latched on to the clip and interpreted it to mean that the APC leader threw away the party.

Rahman explained that Asiwaju was passing the flag on to Oshiomhole for presentation to the party’s governorship candidate, Prince Dapo Abiodun.

In the statement, Rahman said the claim that Tinubu threw away the party was false.

He said: “Asiwaju remains gidigba (solid) in the governing party.”

The statement reads: “If you want to fault Asiwaju for anything in this matter, your critique can only be limited to the accuracy of his toss. Any attempt to enlarge the episode beyond this is fiction and mischief writ large.”



Agreeing that an incident did occur at the Ogun State APC rally, Rahman said it was not what the PDP concocted.

He said: “The true incident that should be reported and condemned is that people who furtively oppose the party and the President tried to infiltrate and disrupt this rally. “The attack by these operatives was disrespectful of the office of the President and could have potentially harmed the person of the president.

“With but a few precious days until the election and with its chance of victory running out even faster than the time, the PDP now grasps at the most nonsensical and desperate tactics to salvage its falling enterprise.

“However, a drowning man cannot toss himself a lifeline. Nor can the PDP succeed in turning the innocuous attempted exchange of a flag between the national leader and national chairman into a rift in the APC’s successful campaign.



“Such antics have no place in our political discourse. The author of these misdeeds should desist before real harm is done. Now to the crux of the opposition’s latest antics, if the issue of the flag has become the hotspot of the PDP campaign, then they are in serious trouble.

“During that portion of the Ogun rally, the national chairman and others were looking for a party flag. Asiwaju Tinubu spotted one within his reach. He picked it up and attempted to toss it to Oshiomhole so that the chairman could present it to the party’s gubernatorial candidate Prince Abiodun.

“If you want to fault Asiwaju for anything in this matter, your critique can only be limited to the accuracy of his toss. Any attempt to enlarge the episode beyond this is fiction and mischief writ large.



“As the National Leader, Asiwaju Tinubu is thoroughly faithful and committed to the APC. It is unthinkable that he would leave the party. Moreover, there is no reason for him to do so. He has been hard at work for the victory of the APC and all of its candidates in the upcoming election.

“Asiwaju understands the bigger picture. He knows what is at stake in this election. Either the nation moves forward along the progressive path of the APC or it will be forced to retreat into the ills of the past created by the PDP. With the nation’s future hanging in the balance, Asiwaju will not allow himself to be deterred by petty mischief.”

The statement advised those spinning the matter to make better use of their imaginations.

It stressed: “Asiwaju is not going anywhere. He remains gidigba (solid) in APC. And after the election, he will be there celebrating the APC’s and this nation’s victory over those who would prevent us our rightful future.


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Tinubu is not a quitter.

He was the last man standing against Obasanjo, when the Ogun shrine brought the AD to it knees. That was when i started respecting him and he has held his own since.

He made the APC what it is today,and got sidelined by Buhari but what did he do?never left. A real man does not start running from pillar to pillar looking for somewhere soft, just because he got relegated and humiliated.

Main difference between him and Obasanjo,Atiku and others who are natural monkeys that like jumping from one place to another looking for relevance.

Tinubu has empowered more people in the APC very quietly, while being humiliated openly there without running away,and that is why people like us respect him.

While Obasanjo,Atiku,Saraki and the rest want the story to be about them. This wise man called Tinubu is putting his foot soldiers quietly, to run the party quietly in future.

Tinubu God bless you. You are going no where.

I only recognize 3 people in Apc

Buhari

Asiwaju & The lion of Niger Delta Honorable Rotimi Amaechi

The best politician that ever existed in the whole of south south and southeast combined

The nightmare of the enemies of the state

EVERYONE PLS GATHER HERE LETS COMPOSE A SENTFORTH SONG FOR BUHARI

sarrki:
I only recognize 3 people in Apc

Buhari

Asiwaju & The lion of Niger Delta Honorable Rotimi Amaechi

The best politician that ever existed in the whole of south south and southeast combined

The nightmare of the enemies of the state

IS UR BRAIN PAINING U??

Who cares?