A national leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says the recent attacks
on his person were because he rejected the offer by President Goodluck
Jonathan to serve as the Vice President in an Interim National
Government.
Tinubu said in a statement by his media office on Thursday that having refused the offer, Jonathan was looking for ways to take him out either by killing him or getting him arrested based on trumped up charges.
Tinubu said in a statement by his media office on Thursday that having refused the offer, Jonathan was looking for ways to take him out either by killing him or getting him arrested based on trumped up charges.
The former governor of Lagos State said the Peoples Democratic Party had never been this rattled in its 16 years in power.
He said Jonathan blamed him for the successful merger of the APC and the
momentum the APC presidential candidate, Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari
(retd.) was gaining.
Tinubu said with the North-West and the South-West- the two most
populous geo-political zones – in the hands, of the APC, it was certain
that the PDP would lose.
“From what can be gathered through informed sources, the PDP and
Jonathan Presidency had recently tried to fracture the APC by offering
Tinubu the position of vice President in an interim government if he
would agree to part company with the popular Buhari. Once Tinubu
rebuffed the offer to participate in the interim scheme, the presidency
decided to change tactics. It would no longer try to entice Tinubu with
sugar but would now move to silence and if necessary neutralise him.
“The APC National leader has caused President Jonathan’s team countless
headaches this campaign season, his declining the interim government
offer is just the latest.”
The former governor said the recent hate documentaries televised were
part of the desperate attempt by Jonathan to discredit him.
But the Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party
Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has described all
these allegations as baseless and false.
Fani-Kayode in a statement said, “These allegations are baseless and
false. These people have become prisoners of their own delusions and
they have become victims of their horrific and terrifying
hallucinations.”
Jonathan blamed me for the merger of the APC – Tinubu
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