APC National Leader Bola Tinubu has released a statement reacting to media reports that President Buhari had put him under security watch following allegations that he's working against the Buhari administration. The Sun had reported yesterday that Tinubu and Saraki were working together to frustrate Buhari's ministerial list. In a statement which he released and signed by his spokesperson Sunday Dare, Tinubu said the report is false and unfounded.

According to him, he "would not join with Senator Saraki in hindering this government which may just be the nation’s last best chance to salvage itself". The presidency last night released a statement discrediting the report. Full text of Tinubu's statement after the cut


“The SUN Newspaper has taken a sad excursion from journalism into the realm of gothic tales and political slander. That sheet has turned itself into a harbor of perjury and malice in telling tales by moonlight. In venturing to publish the recent story that Asiwaju Tinubu has conspired with Senator Saraki to thwart the Buhari administration, the SUN Newspaper has descended to the lowest and darkest rungs of journalism ethics. The stench of the piece and motives behind it are too noxious to ignore.

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. Given the potential for change that stands before us, we are now beginning to see the true nature of many people. There are those who truly want positive change so that we can break from the ways of a stolid past. Then there are those who speak of change with their mouths but never believe in it in their hearts.


They came along with us for the ride or because no other political option availed itself at the operative time. Now given the chance to redeem themselves from their past political actions, they would rather return to the political morass from whence they came. The idea of an alleged conspiracy between Tinubu and Saraki against the President is an execrablelie.

Without any proof except the veil of innuendo and some hatemongers masquerading as presidency sources, the story proclaims that the government is surveilling Asiwaju Tinubu because of his purported unhappiness about the ministerial list. Too mischievous yet cowardly for their own good, the yarn-spinners at the SUN neglect to precisely state what terrible thing they believe Tinubu to have done.

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. If this nation is to have more than a fleeting chance of escaping the quagmire into which years of PDP misrule have taken us, we cannot allow these regressive elements to deploy their cunning tricks to divide and pit progressive against progressive. Here, I will do those who inhabit the shadows of untruth a favor. I will state explicitly what they hoped to get the reader to infer. Their claim is that Tinubu has joined with Saraki to scuttle the President’s ministerial nominations. They have misfired.

Their wrong is a great wrong. Like the rest of us, Asiwaju Tinubu waited for the President to selecthis 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 mould of PDP governance: to Pilfer, Destroy and Pillage.

Instead they should cohere faithfully to the enlightened programs 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. For the record, the Buhari Presidency was brought to life by the votes of millions of Nigerians who desire change. Such a collective and historic achievement is not one that anyone who worked to bring it to life would easily seek to deconstruct.

This government is for the betterment of the people and the national purpose is bigger and more important that any individual’s desires. In our journey to national betterment, plans and policies will be made, then amended. Mistakes will occur and then corrected. Achievements will be had and replicated.

Through it all, Asiwaju will remain true to the progressive ideals that fuelled the creation of the APC. He has devoted his political life to achieve what has been achieved. His heart is too much of the people and his mind too fixed on establishing a positive historic legacy to suffer such a cynical policy or engage in the destructive pettiness of which he is accused. He would not toss aside a lifetime’s labor because of an alleged slight and certainly would not join with Senator Saraki in stymying this government which may just be the nation’s last best chance to salvage itself.

Given the exigencies of his position, President Buhari is placed in an unenviable position to some degree. The duties of his office give him no choice; necessity constrains him, requiring that he discourse with Senator Saraki. As party leader, Asiwaju is free of such constraints. On these matters, I know where Asiwaju Tinubu stands. 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 alleged conspiracy is a figment. It takes at least two people to make a conspiracy. There has been no substantive communication between Asiwaju and Saraki since the latter decided to foul the integrity of the Senate and the party. 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. 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 singleMinister to his desire for extrajudicial treatment of his issues. If adhering to the decisions of the party, supporting the government’s progressive plank and working for the good of the people qualifies Tinubu for surveillance, then he will accept that. However, we know that any such surveillance is not from state security organs.

Such activity would come from the insecurity agencies of the PDP and its mercenary allies elsewhere who would seek to fragment the true core of the APC so that they may scuttle the Buhari reform program and return the nation to the misgovernance of the past. They hope to delude the APC into attacking itself. By so doing, they believe they can regain through stealth, the reins of government the people seized from them through elections. They seek to break the hearts and hopes of the people. Asiwaju Tinubu would never team with anyone to gain such an inhumane objective".


http://www.laidenews.com/2015/10/i-will-not-join-saraki-to-hinder-buhari.html?m=1

JAGABAN FOR EVER.

madridguy:
FAKE NEWS WITH UNRELIABLE SOURCE FROM A FAKE POSTER.

Bro you get Google search engine.......Please search this news.......you just lost the respect I have for you......I follow almost all your post

Tinubu is now coming out clearly about his disdain for saraki. Tinubu election is over, Saraki is now the SP. Stop bitching and deal with it.
This mudslinging wont do APC any good. As a matter of fact it is to PDP advantage.

Sun speculated, why then attack Saraki like he was the one that said ur plotting against PMB. Its like Tinubu doesnt know it is not Saraki hez fighting but Saraki/Atiku. Money for money they can match the Jagaban.

If dey give d jagaban dane gun to shoot Saraki he wont think twice b4 pulling the trigger. APC internal wrangling wont end anytime soon.

Ok

madridguy:
FAKE NEWS WITH UNRELIABLE SOURCE FROM A FAKE POSTER.

It is not FAKE! I have read it since morning!

It is a classic response to Saraki and his media hirelings!

Asiwaju My Mentor! OGA Adiririri gi na mma!!

Tinubu has finished his detractors and enemies of progress in one fell swoop.

madridguy:
FAKE NEWS WITH UNRELIABLE SOURCE FROM A FAKE POSTER.

Na true.

Phew! APC does harbour some serious wordsmiths.

This statement of intent, which not only discredits the subterranean machinations of his traducers but also sets out Tinubu's stall, would be most unsettling for the harbingers of doom.

Mehn... This Man hate Saraki no b small

APC IS A GATHERING OF STRANGE BED FELLOWS-BODE GEORGE(2015)

Tinubu got it wrong here.

That article was pure propaganda by TheSun or whatever news journal carried that story. Tinubu shoulda known better.

Now everybody knows he doesn't fancy saraki.

My bro sorry jare I beg no mind me jare.....I need to be spank like kilode......I don carry " Idowu for Alaba " there is a mistake here.....Ooooo am really sorry, there is a post saying jargon against JAGABAN so it is the thread i want to counter, please accept my apology...

APC
CHANGE

kikesblog:



Bro you get Google search engine.......Please search this news.......you just lost the respect I have for you......I follow almost all your post

Grundig:
Tinubu got it wrong here.

That article was pure propaganda by TheSun or whatever news journal carried that story. Tinubu shoulda known better.

Now everybody knows he doesn't fancy saraki.

Erm...Tinubu's position has been unambiguous from the day Saraki smuggled himself into a car park at 6am, only to emerge Senate President under the most dubious circumstances.

Tinubu – I Won’t Recognise Saraki As Senate President, Unless…

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has responded to the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as President of the Senate.

Tinubu, while speaking on the development at the national secretariat of the party on Tuesday in Abuja, said, “I will never recognise such a kangaroo arrangement that produced Bukola as the Senate President. “Or how do you want me to recognise a man who deliberately defied his own party because of his personal interest? It is not done anywhere.

“Therefore, recognising Bukola as the Senate President after all he had done to our party today, having gone against the wish and pattern of our great party, honestly will amount to endorsing impunity, and which you should all know I will not ”,Tinubu said.

He added, “For me to recognise Senator Bukola as the Senate President, he must show remorse for today’s action. He had earlier promised to defy the party and the deed has been done. You don’t do that in politics.

“Personal interest must not override that of the party that beget you. It’s a spoken and silent rule of the game, which all and sundry must abide with. “I’m not God, but as far as this party is concerned, I’m a leader and I know what is good for the party at the appropriate time.

Speaking now is not for the party, but for myself. I cannot recognize Bukola as the Senate President.”

Source: http://www.informationng.com/2015/06/tinubu-i-wont-recognise-saraki-as-senate-president-unless.html

Don't mind me my sister. I made a graveyard mistake here, my comment i posted was for a thread that speak against the JAGABAN OF THE UNIVERSE so don't know I don carry Alaba for Idowu. meanwhile, APC TILL 2050

NgeneUkwenu:


It is not FAKE! I have read it since morning!

It is a classic response to Saraki and his media hirelings!

Asiwaju My Mentor! OGA Adiririri gi na mma!!

madridguy:
My bro sorry jare I beg no mind me jare.....I need to be spank like kilode......I don carry " Idowu for Alaba " there is a mistake here.....Ooooo am really sorry, there is a post saying jargon against JAGABAN so it is the thread i want to counter, please accept my apology...

APC
CHANGE

Very soon, a judge would be interpreting the consequences of a document you signed without reading. Shame on you for this immature retraction!

The thing pain me and JAGABAN must not see it. Nobody Is Above Mistake

frankyychiji:
Very soon, a judge would be interpreting the consequences of a document you signed without reading. Shame on you for this immature retraction!

Well said the jagaban of our time,but sir are you trying to tell us diplomatically that saraki is behind the publication just to soil your relationship with baba

OnReflection:
APC does harbour some serious wordsmiths.

Yeah. Sunday Dare is a seasoned journalist. He attended the great University of Jos, then to Harvard and Oxford. One wouldn't expect his lexicon to be limited.

And with what I've seen so far, you could easily compete for his position yourself.

Even Saraki himself respect Tinubu but the Bia-fraudters will still come here and tell us that Jagaban is irrelevant but yet there'll be no single day that his name will not come up in the news. Eje gba oga ni oga.

jagaban is pissing in his pants.
he run pass Nigeria Army against boko haram!
is he that scared of the dumbass of daura?

I think the best thing for Saraki is too just avoid this man if he wants to be relevant politically. He can't take him up in anyway, the man is not holding any position and there are thousands sentimental to him in authority, which they are all performing in their respective areas, so there's really no way to attack him. He knows how to play his game without getting into the mud with you.
I've been following Mr Strive (Econet founder) post on the bribery event that impact negatively on the coy, but I noticed the man mentioned LASG as one of the state partners, despite mentioning the name of others, BAT name wasn't mentioned, that Act brought up so many unanswered questions to my mind. I still marvels at where the source of his protection(legal and legitimate) could come from considering all his political battles.
Is he clean? Does he knows much about others thus covering himself with that? Is he so perfect in covering his tracks for been seen(as an accountant)?
I hope I will live to see the day he retires, and many of his colleagues, godsons, foes and others will come out publicly to tell us more about his person and dealings.

madridguy:
My bro sorry jare I beg no mind me jare.....I need to be spank like kilode......I don carry " Idowu for Alaba " there is a mistake here.....Ooooo am really sorry, there is a post saying jargon against JAGABAN so it is the thread i want to counter, please accept my apology...

APC
CHANGE

It is ok

Apology Accepted.

one love

kikesblog:


It is ok

Apology Accepted.

cassimere:


Yeah. Sunday Dare is a seasoned journalist. He attended the great University of Jos, then to Harvard and Oxford. One wouldn't expect his lexicon to be limited.

And with what I've seen so far, you could easily compete for his position yourself.

Cassimere,

Thanks for the investment of confidence.
However, as one who is more at home in the world of binary numbers, I know well enough not to cross swords with the likes of Sunday Dare - a seasoned public relations expert whose lucidity bears the makings of a modern day Cicero.

hmmm

kikesblog:
APC
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. If this nation is to have more than a fleeting chance of escaping the quagmire into which years of PDP misrule have taken us, we cannot allow these regressive elements to deploy their cunning tricks to divide and pit progressive against progressive. Here, I will do those who inhabit the shadows of untruth a favor. I will state explicitly what they hoped to get the reader to infer. Their claim is that Tinubu has joined with Saraki to scuttle the President’s ministerial nominations. They have misfired.

The Jagaban of Borgu grasped this one quite well.

The alliance between Buhari and Tinubu is such a robust and intimidating one that it sends their enemies into nerve shattering panic, so these juvenile plots are quite understandable despite being utterly laughable.

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 mould of PDP governance: to Pilfer, Destroy and Pillage.

*wipe tears*

The alleged conspiracy is a figment. It takes at least two people to make a conspiracy. There has been no substantive communication between Asiwaju and Saraki since the latter decided to foul the integrity of the Senate and the party. 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. He would counsel Saraki to shelve his personal situation for the moment to concentrate on the people’s business.

For the record.

They both seem to place much emphasis on having not met. There might be an iota of truth in the story.

I have always maintained that fighting Saraki when he emerged as Senate President was a miscalculation by Tinubu and his men. He'd have made peace with him when he was seeking for their faces and prepare to use him against Buhari and El rufai when the time comes. Whether he denies it from now till eternity, it is clear Tinubu had been played by the duo of Buhari and El rufai who are having the last laugh.

As it stands now, Tinubu only has the ears of Lagos and Osun governors. He has lost the party chairmanship and the national politics that made him to abandon his stronghold of south west is proving difficult everyday. Any overtures at Saraki now, will portray him as desperate. I'll advise he take sometime off and rebuild his alliances. He should also tame his ego and megalomania. There can be only one Awo.

We wish him well...

Tinubu, pls give peace a chance.