I’ VE NO PRESIDENTIAL AMBITION, SAYS TAMBUWAL

Yet, his posters flood streets
Despite the flooding of the major roads in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital with his 2015 presi¬dential posters, Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, at the weekend, tactically denied nursing such ambi¬tion during his visit to the state capital.
The Speaker while field¬ing questions from jour¬nalists after paying a con¬dolence visit to the former governor of the state, Sena¬tor Rasheed Ladoja, over the death of his mother penultimate week, dis¬
missed the insinuation by pointing at the reporter who asked the question that “you are the one re¬sponsible for the posters”.
It will be recalled that Al¬haja Halimat Sadia Ladoja, the mother of Ladoja died 11 days ago at the age of 94 and the eighth day fidau prayer was held on Thurs¬day during which political heavyweights from across party divides and from all over the country were in at¬tendance.
Tambuwal, accompa¬nied by some of the mem¬bers of the House of Repre¬sentatives from Oyo State, described Ladoja as a great leader and veritable legacy of the deceased mother just as he pleaded with the for¬mer governor for his inabil¬ity to attend the eighth day fidau prayer.
He said: “I would have been here since yesterday, but I had to travel to Kano to condole Magaji Aliyu Dambata. We thank God that as a Muslim and as our leader also knows, death is an inevitable thing which everyone of us must expe¬rience. “
He noted further that all human beings would taste death, saying “we know all of us come from God and to Him we shall all return. We will leave one day and go back to Him. As a matter of fact, death is the ultimate and inevitable and we must pass through the process that must be surely come.
The former governor and national leader of Ac¬cord Party in his response, thanked Tambuwal and his entourage for the visit and disclosed that many digni¬taries graced the fidau cer¬emony.
He described Tambu¬wal as his senior “because you lost your own mother very many years ago and the good God that has been keeping you will also be with us, the new orphans”.
Receiving the Speaker with Ladoja were some of the Accord Party chieftains that include Bayo Lawal, Dele Adigun, Nureni Ad¬eniran, former Speaker of the Oyo State House of As¬sembly, Abraham Adeleke, Bola Amole and Lanre Lat¬inwo, among others.
Source: National Mirror