Embattled National Leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC Asiwaju
Bola Ahmed Tinubu has taken a huge swipe at President Mohammadu Buhari,
describing him as an ingrate on whom he spent over N35 billion to make
president.
Tinubu’s outburst came a day after Buhari torpedoed his Presidential
ambition, endorsing another faction of the APC in the leadership tussle that
has engulfed the party, sources close to the former Governor of Lagos State
told Pointblanknews.com.
On Wednesday,
Buhari endorsed acting national secretary, Victor Gaidom as acting National
Chairman of APC. Barely 24hrs later, he orchestrated the dissolution of the
party’s National Working Committee, NWC. Yobe State governor Mai Mala Bunu was
appointed to lead the party’s caretaker Chairman.
Sources told
Pointblanknews.com that Bunu, Abubakar Bagudu and Nasir El-Rufai, governors of
Yobe, Kebbi and Kaduna States respectively, as well as Transport Minister
Chibuike Amaechi belong to the same political camp opposed to Tinubu.
Soon after
Thursday’s NEC meeting, gathered Pointblanknews.com, Tinubu got on the
telephone with a former national chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande,
lamenting and cursing everyone perceived to be behind his political travails.
A source who privy
to the conversation told Pointblanknews.com that the former Lagos state
Governor complained to Akande, reportedly expressing regrets on all he did for
the APC.
“Asiwaju lamented
that he invested over N35 billion to fund Buhari’s elections in 2015 and 2019
and yet, he is never appreciated,” the source told Pointblanknews.com
Pointblanknews.com
could not independently verify the figure Tinubu claimed to have spent on
Buhari’s two elections.
The source further
hinted that the embattled APC leader regretted not backing his former political
ally and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar in 2019 over Buhari, and blamed
El-Rufai, Amaechi and former Ogun State governor Ibikunle Amosun as the
arrowheads of the opposition to his political aspiration.
“Asiwaju told
Akande that had he backed Atiku in 2019, he won’t have suffered this kind of
political humiliation. He said that were it not for him, the APC would not have
won the 2015 and 2019 elections,” disclosed the source.
Pointblanknews.com
gathered that Tinubu may have been dealt the biggest political blow of his life
yet in retaliation for how he (Tinubu) humiliated the immediate past
governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode.
According to the
source, Buhari and other top leaders of the APC had begged Tinubu to allow
Ambode complete his tenure. As events later proved, the pleas fell on deaf
ears.
The APC leaders
were said to have vowed to pay Tinubu in his own coin for not just disobeying
the President but also carrying on like the sole owner of the party.
Meanwhile, a cold
war is currently brewing between Tinubu and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
According to
sources close to both political gladiators, Tinubu may have since 1999 skimmed
up to $1.5 billion directly and through proxies. Governor Sanwo-Olu is
reportedly not pleased with Tinubu’s “overbearing demands and his attempt
to control his government.”
Ambode is reportedly
happy that Tinubu’s humiliation would give him some respite.
It has being a long time coming for Tinubu who thinks he is untouchable. After the Ambode sage I knew it won't be too long before his own disgrace would come. You cannot disregard the please of the President and other top Rankin APC big wigs concerning the Ambode issue and get away with it. Servers him right
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