Tinubu shunned APC’s NEC meeting because he knew there were plans to humiliate him – Party chieftain

More details have emerged on why former Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu, shunned the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the APC on Friday. A member of the National Working Committee (NWC) who was at the meeting said Tinubu was aware that there were plans to humiliate him and his loyalistsm “Tinubu knew that some people were prepared to fight him. He would have been humiliated by some people”, the NWC member told The Sun. The NWC member also revealed that arrangements were already in place to engage Tinubu in a brawl and force him to leave the venue of the meeting in anger. “Those who were to humiliate him were on ground but his absence saved the day”, the APC chieftain added. He stated that the party leadership, sensing how rancorous the meeting may be , tinkered with the idea of barring journalists from covering it. He explained that the earlier plans were that photojournalists would be given five to 10 minutes to take pictures of the opening session and leave the scene. He said “we tinkered with the plans of barring journalists from covering the event. We knew that anything could happen but we didn’t want to be ridiculed in the public.” The source explained that Buhari’s men know that former Lagos State governor and his men want APC chairman Oyegun out because they didn’t succeed in “encircling the President with Tinubu’s men”. He told The Sun, “the President’s men refused to buy into the campaign that the National Chairman was compromised by Saraki. They didn’t see any evidence to that effect. Rather they believe that those who want him out were angry that that their agenda of encircling the president failed.

“They were angry that Oyegun was called up at 4am by forces from Lagos to do a dirty job. They even dropped the name of the President in all those dirty jobs. Instead of apologising to Mr President for lying with his name they are insisting that the National Chairman must go.” According to the source, APC should be “happy that PDP did not elect one of its own senate president. Saraki saved the party because there was nothing we would have done if they had elected one of their own as senate president. They formed a quorum, we were lucky that it did not go into their head to elect one of their own as senate president. And the mistake was because somebody in his desperation to have everything lied that the President called a meeting and took our lawmakers to a place they were not supposed to be.” On the side of Atiku’s loyalists, the paper gathered that they were against the removal of Oyegun because they were determined to cut Tinubu to size. The source added, “the other tendency which is loyal to the former Vice President does not want the structure of the party changed. It is against allowing Tinubu to take everything or call the shot in APC. It believes that the Vice President is a product of Tinubu and that should be enough for him.” He added, “both Buhari’s men and that of Atiku worked together to save Oyegun. However, I don’t think the fight is over, it may be the beginning”.

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Tinubu want to control too much though,but I respect his political sagacity. How many southerners can stand this northern oligarchy.