President Muhammadu Buhari has told former Lagos State governor and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that he is not the national leader of APC, SIGNAL can report.

The development which occurred during a dinner event at the Aso Rock presidential villa while President Buhari was playing host to APC chieftains and members of the National Assembly may have finally put to rest controversy surrounding the actual status of Tinubu in the APC party hierarchy.

Prior to the election of Muhammadu Buhari as President, Tinubu was revered, regarded and addressed within the APC as “national leader of the party.”

Buhari’s declaration on Monday was said to have been ignited by Senate President Bukola Saraki who while observing protocol in the course of making his remarks, addressed Tinubu as “the national leader of APC.”

According to an informed source who did not want to be named, Buhari immediately seized the moment to “set the records straight” taking his turn to speak immediately after the Senate President’s remarks.

Buhari, SIGNAL gathered was blunt, brutal and straight to the point right before Tinubu’s eyes and to the hearing of all. “Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, even though the Senate President addressed you as the National Leader of APC, you are not the national leader of the party. You are one of the national leaders of the APC”, Buhari said to the consternation of onlookers.

Asked why President Buhari may have been forced to make such a comment at an open event, the source disclosed that it may not be unconnected to bickering within the APC over Tinubu’s increasing status as perhaps the most influential power broker in APC, a development close confidants of President Buhari are said to be uncomfortable with.

“President Buhari’s close aides and confidants are not comfortable with the idea of Tinubu parading himself as national leader of the APC. They believe only the President deserves to carry the full weight of that title. It is a silent cold war that has been brewing but nobody knew the President would take it that personal by actually voicing it out face to face with Tinubu. It appeared petty actually but again, you need to understand that the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar was also seated when this happened. The President may have been uncomfortable with allowing Tinubu get away with being addressed as national leader of APC in the presence of other senior leaders of the party like Atiku and then the national chairman, John Oyegun who was also present. Buhari’s silence on the matter may have been misconstrued as an acceptance of Tinubu as the national leader of APC and he didn’t want that to happen”, the source said.

The idea of ‘national leader of the party’ became a ‘big deal’ in modern Nigerian democracy during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo who invented the title and reserved it for the office of the President under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government. It soon became institutionalized within the party’s leadership hierarchy and has now filtered into the fabric of the current ruling APC.


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“Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, even though the Senate President addressed you as the National Leader of APC, you are not the national leader of the party. You are one of the national leaders of the APC”, Buhari said to the consternation of onlookers".


A New Cold War Brewing in APC.


Things Fall Apart.

Where? When? And how?

PMB cannot say such to Tinubu.

Who cares?..........all we know is that Tinubu has written his name politically in the sand of time

To PMB, Tinubu is even more than a National Leader, h is the Chief maker General of the party!

This is called severing all ties.
Time to make new friends, Mr President. Friends that will shoot us to whatever high hope dreams you have for Nigeria.
. GEJ being in Aso Rock yesterday to me is a step in the right direction. Time to rub shoulders with those who has been there and escape with barely the skin off their backs, as experience is the best teacher. Not some regional local champions who knows next to nothing about international politics and economy.

Cock and bull story.

What's the difference between the "national leader" of the party and "one of the national leaders" of the party?

Signalng is just a wailing platform that is trying to create a sensational story from nothing.

When will Ipod yoots and wailers stop posting all these jargons on their fake blogs and websites.

We can see through your lies. Try harder.

No be only Signal u go see, u go soon see Transmission too.

Ipods, wailers and lies are one and the same.

Buhari's true color is beginning to surface. Tinubu will be at the receiving end. One doesn't need a soothsayer before he will come to the realization that the whole Yoruba nation has been used by the Northerners.

PMB is just opening fights in all fronts.Bros cool down nnow.

Tinubu has always been a local champion.It w the SW media that created the tag of national leader for him!! He has no influence outside the SW.National leader ko international follower ni

Signal =Bukola Saraki + Anti -Buhari forces
Buhari is having a great and robust relationship with Jagaban.

Buhari is right na. Only the President carries that title. Tinubu kpele o

cktheluckyman:
Tinubu has always been a local champion.It w the SW media that created the tag of national leader for him!! He has no influence outside the SW.National leader ko international follower ni

Keep on dreaming. Nobody will distract us from the prosecution of last GEJ administration. No amount of distraction.

Hehehehehehehehehehe

for now

The national leader and one of the national leaders of APC. I see no difference

tinubu you see your life? even your party members dont trust you again

Who would believe in this cockEnBull Story..??

WilliamsNedd:
Buhari's true color is beginning to surface. Tinubu will be at the receiving end. One doesn't need a soothsayer before he will come to the realization that the whole Yoruba nation has been used by the Northerners.

Dont be a dull@rd!
Tinubu is not equivalent to Yoruba and vice versa.
I dont care if the story is true or false.

TINUBU, HOW MARKET?

Tinubu was just a ladder buhari needed to use to get to aso rock

Businessideas:
Signal =Bukola Saraki + Anti -Buhari forces
Buhari is having a great and robust relationship with Jagaban.

Tinubu's woes started when he lost his VP bid.
Had he emerged VP, his position as National Leader would have been secured.

Looooool Tinubu is the problem we have in the SW. Any yoruba that still thinks tinubu loves us must be sick in the head

See that paid agent firefire dancing at the top but always lost on any Fayose salary owings thread. Lol

aljharem:
Looooool Tinubu is the problem we have in the SW. Any yoruba that still thinks tinubu loves us must be sick in the head

Kanuri man, stop claiming Yoruba, you have been exposed here many times. Dont you have shame?

Viergeachar:

Dont be a dull@rd! Tinubu is not equivalent to Yoruba and vice versa. I dont care if the story is true or false.

E pain am

WilliamsNedd:
Buhari's true color is beginning to surface. Tinubu will be at the receiving end. One doesn't need a soothsayer before he will come to the realization that the whole Yoruba nation has been used by the Northerners.

As in ehn. Tinubu's fall will be the worst in Nigeria's history. Honest yorubas' know that they've been misled by tinubu's alliance with illiterate herdsmen. No, they weren't scammed, they voted out of selfishness. They voted for appointments.

Businessideas:

Keep on dreaming. Nobody will distract us from the prosecution of last GEJ administration. No amount of distraction.

Abeg wetin concern this thread with GEJ? Abi u de see GEJ for your dreams?

Tinubu said Saraki looked down on him 2days ago.........
Mr. Tinubu ko Tunubu ni, What do you have to say about this?

Tinubu abago one chance













Akpa amu

Viergeachar:


Tinubu's woes started when he lost his VP bid.
Had he emerged VP, his position as National Leader would have been secured.

Which woes?? Somebody in charge of the whole politics of the Yoruba all the way to Kogi.
No other single Nigerian alive apart from the President has that kind of political clout. You think a President Buhari will joke with that kind of asset.