HOW TINUBU-SARAKI WAR STARTED

The open feud between the camps of a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu and the Senate president, Bukola Saraki reportedly had its root in the well-orchestrated opposition to the emergence of a muslim running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari, Saturday Tribune’s checks have revealed.
In the build-up to the National Assembly leadership contest, Tinubu had stoutly stood against Saraki’s ambition to lead the National Assembly as the Senate president, while showing preference, first, for former Minority Leader, Senator George Akume and later Senator Ahmed Lawan.
It was, however, gathered that Tinubu’s disavowal of Saraki was predicated on the role the Senate president reportedly played in stopping him (Tinubu) from emerging as Buhari’s running mate in the course of searching for the vice-presidential candidate for the party.

TINUBU BEHIND PLOT TO REMOVE EKWEREMADU –OHANAEZE

The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Ohanaeze Youth Council, has said that the All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is behind the plot to remove Ike Ekweremadu as the deputy senate president.
In a statement issued in Umuahia, the OYC National President, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, asked Tinubu and other “anti- Igbo forces in APC” to retrace their steps or face the wrath of Igbo youths.
Isiguzoro said the plot to remove Ekweremadu was an affront on the Igbo nation which would not be tolerated.
He said, “Being fully aware that the present plot is being orchestrated by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, we ask him to re-trace his steps forthwith or we shall declare him an enemy of Ndigbo.”

BUHARI MOVES TO PACIFY TINUBU

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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is said to be considering some measures that would cement his relationship with former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, following the cracks between the duo over the management of National Assembly leadership crisis.
Sources close to the APC confirmed to the Nigerian Tribune that the presidency had discovered lately that Tinubu was angry and had been putting some measures in place to pacify the national leader of APC.
Tinubu’s camp was said to have been angered by Buhari’s failure to back its strategies that would have ensured the emergence of candidates of the party for the positions of Senate president and Speaker of the House of Representatives.

SPEAKERSHIP RACE: TINUBU TURNS BACK ON TAMBUWAL FOR BETRAYING GBAJABIAMILA

A month after the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives was decided, the unofficial position of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has drawn the battle line between himself and Tambuwal.

According to online news medium, The Will, Tinubu, who played host to Tambuwal at his Asokro residence in Abuja, a fortnight after the speakership election in which Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila lost to Hon Yakubu Dogara, told Tambuwal that “with what you did to Femi in the House, you have severed the umbilical cord joining you with the South-West.”

Tinubu, a source revealed, was in company of some Northern members of the APC when the ex Speaker came calling.

WHY TINUBU BOYCOTTED APC NEC MEETING – CHIEFTAIN

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More facts have emerged on why former Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu, Interim National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) and erstwhile governor of Osun State Chief Bisi Akande boycotted the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party .
Their absence was not based on illness or permission by the authorities of the party. A member of the National Working Commit¬tee (NWC) who was at the meeting said the former Lagos State governor was aware that there were plans to humiliate him and his henchmen.
“Tinubu knew that some people were pre¬pared to fight him. He would have been hu¬miliated by some people”, the official said.

PLOT TO BAR TINUBU FROM APC NEC MEETING THICKENS

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The tension in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) heightened yesterday as there are moves to bar National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from attending the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) scheduled for today.
The parley was postponed from last Tuesday.
A group of angry leaders, backed by former governors of the party, are set on a collision course with the leadership of the party over Tinubu’s alleged role in the leadership crisis rocking the National Assembly. Daily Sun gathered that some prominent party members are up in arms against top leaders of the party on Tinubu’s status “after the March 28 presidential poll.

APC GROUP DECRIES ‘CONSPIRACY’ AGAINST TINUBU

The Action Group caucus of the All Progressives Congress has warned members ganging up to fight the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, “after benefitting from his support,” that they would live to regret it.
The AG said the June 9 National Assembly executive elections had pointed to the fact that there was a coup against Tinubu, President Muhammadu Buhari and all that the change was meant to herald for Nigeria by those who bled our economy to the present state.
In a release signed on Sunday by its spokesperson, Segun Dipe, the group observed that some elements believed that they could maintain their popularity only by denigrating Tinubu and telling lies against him.
“These conspirators are filled with venom and they consist of too many craven and irresponsible politicians who are nothing more than the lap dogs for those oil barons, financial offenders and other mafias guilty of keeping us down after having brought us to the state of forlorn hope.

PEOPLE TRYING TO SET ME AGAINST BUHARI –TINUBU

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has raised the alarm over a plot by some people to pit him against President Muhammadu Buhari.
Tinubu said this in a statement by his media office while responding to a report by an online medium.
The medium had claimed that Tinubu accused Buhari of moving against the party by helping Senator Bukola Saraki to emerge as Senate President.
However, Tinubu said he had never made a public statement about the National Assembly since Saraki and Yakubu Dogara emerged as Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively.

WHAT I WENT THROUGH FOR BELIEVING WE COULD DEFEAT PDP – TINUBU

LAGOS—National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has noted how he and other party officials were mocked at and derided when they conceived the idea of forcing the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from power two years ago.
Speaking at the African Young Entrepreneurs Empowerment Nigeria, AYEEN 2015 programme in Lagos, weekend, the party leader thus urged youths not to ever give up on their ideas “even if no one believes in you.”
The APC leader who was represented by the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, said that the youths should learn from APC’s story, as they strive to achieve their dreams.

NIGERIA, NO LONGER IN CHAINS –TINUBU

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said that Nigeria has been liberated from years of the Peoples Democratic Party’s misrule as Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as the new President of the country.
In a statement issued on Friday to mark Democracy Day titled, ‘A new Nigeria is possible beginning today,’ Tinubu urged Nigerians to continue to hold public office holders responsible to ensure that their struggle is not in vain.
He said, “Today, the old Nigeria is no longer in chains as we move into a new era and take hold of our new selves. From President (Muhammadu) Buhari to the state governors inaugurated this day, I wish them well and pray they govern in an open, democratic way that assures your optimal wellbeing.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY LEADERSHIP: GANGUP AGAINST TINUBU’S CANDIDATES

As intense lobbying, horse-trading and power play over the zoning of the Senate presidency and speakership of the House of Representatives heightened over the weekend, indications emerged that no fewer than 64 Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress senators-elect were scheming to block All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s candidates for Senate President, George Akume, and Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. Sunday Telegraph learnt that they are instead rooting for former governor of Kwara State, Dr. Bukola Saraki.
Sunday Telegraph gathered from a ranking Northern senator that the 64 senators consist of PDP (39); while the APC supporters are from North-West (18); Kwara (2); Kogi (2); Niger (2); and Nasarawa (1). Akume is being backed by APC senators from the South-West and some other states in North-Central.

PDP MANAGED POVERTY, WE WILL END IT – TINUBU

ADDRESS OF THE CHANCELLOR, LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OGBOMOSO, ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU, DELIVERED AT THE 12TH CONVOCATION CEREMONY, HELD ON THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015
Protocol
I am delighted to address this assembly for the first time since my investiture as the 4th chancellor of our university. When we assembled here for that memorable event exactly one year ago, many national and international personalities were among our guests.
We had the privilege of the eminent presence of General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), now the President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. At the time, we could only hope and pray that all would be well with our dear country, Nigeria. Today, we are grateful to God because he has heard our cry and has answered our prayer for a better nation. It is, therefore, my privilege to welcome you all to this important occasion of the 12th Convocation Ceremony of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso.

HOW THE ‘GODFATHER’ OF LAGOS COULD SHAPE NIGERIA’S GOVT – REUTERS

“I am a talent hunter. I put talents in office, I help them,” says former Lagos state governor and opposition alliance leader Bola Tinubu, being quite open about his role as one of Nigeria’s most powerful political godfathers.
“I use the best hand, the best brain, the best experience for the job,” he told Reuters after voting this month in a governorship election in Nigeria’s economic capital which, as expected, his hand picked candidate Akinwunmi Ambode won.
But it isn’t only in his traditional fiefdom in the ethnic Yoruba southwest that Tinubu has sought to be a kingmaker. His support for former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari was seen as a key factor in the latter’s win against President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28 presidential election in Africa’s biggest economy and oil producer.

KASHAMU REPLIES TINUBU: RISE ABOVE PETTINESS

While responding .to Tinubu through a Press statement, Buruji said:
My attention has been drawn to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s reaction to the innocuous congratulatory messages that I sent to him and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the aftermath of the general election.
First, I must say that I doubt if the statement was approved by him. However, if it was, I must state that I am taken aback by the unwarranted attacks against me as if we were still campaigning. It is unbecoming of someone of his stature and calibre.

For me, it is high time politicians and leaders rose above petty issues and raise the bar in constitutional democracy. We should not just be democrats in words but also in deeds. We should play politics without bitterness.

I’M NOT YOUR ROLE MODEL, TINUBU REPLIES KASHAMU

NATIONAL leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, has denied being a role model to the senator-elect in Ogun State, Buruji Kashamu.
In a statement signed by Sunday Dare, his media adviser and made available to newsmen, it said for Kashamu “to liken himself to Bola Tinubu is for a small rut to call itself a mountain.
“For Kashamu to call Tinubu a role model is Kashamu’s admission that he does not know the meaning of the term. There are no grounds for comparison. There is only contrast. Tinubu has sacrificed years trying to bring democracy to Nigeria.”
The statement described the sudden turn in Kashamu’s singing praise of the former governor of Lagos State as cynical fawning that would not work.

TINUBU BLASTS PARTY LEADERS OVER LOSS TO PDP

National leaders of All Progressives Party, APC, and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed disappointment over the loss of five House of Representatives seats to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the March 28th, presidential and National Assembly elections.
Tinubu stated this at an emergency stakeholders meeting to review last election and strategize for the Saturday governorship and state house of assembly election, held at APC Lagos Secretariat, Ikeja.
Those in attendance at the meeting were: State Chairman of the party, Chief Henry Ajomale, Senator elects, Oluremi Tinubu, Gbenga Ashafa and Olamilekan Adeola, Demola Seriki, all state party leaders among others.

AKIOLU NOT APC’S SPOKESMAN – TINUBU

A former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, is not a member of the All Progressives Congress and cannot speak on behalf of the party.
Tinubu said this at a rally in Iganmu, Lagos, while reacting to the controversial comments of the monarch on Tuesday.
The APC National Leader, who noted that he was the first Yoruba governor to ever appoint an Igbo commissioner, said the Peoples Democratic Party, having failed to win last week’s presidential elections, were desperately trying to pull the APC into the Akiolu controversy.

THIS IS NIGERIA’S FINEST MOMENT —TINUBU

NATIONAL leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, has described the victory of the presidential candidate of the party, General Muhammadu Buhari, as Nigeria’s finest moment in its political history.
“It is a moment when hope is re-born, faith is rekindled and a fresh fire of patriotism is released for the task ahead.
“I congratulate General Buhari, Nigeria’s president-elect, on his hard won victory. I salute our galant party leaders and members for running the long distance to victory.

SEE ELECTION AS COMMON SENSE REVOLUTION, TINUBU ENJOINS NIGERIANS

KANO – The national leader of All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu enjoined Nigerians to see the forthcoming general election as a common sense revolution incumbent on them to effect the changes needed through their Permanent Voters Card (PVC).
Tinubu who spoke to reporters Monday evening in Kano shortly after commissioning Kano Corporate Security Institute and a number of other projects executed by Governor Rab’u Musa Kwankwaso’s administration urged Nigerians to come out en masse to vote for credible leaders.
The APC Chieftain enjoin Nigerians to vote for the APC so as to rescue the country from socio-economnic and political quagmire brought about by poor leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
According to Tinubu “my message is that they should see the forthcoming election as a common sense revolution; common sense revolution—to reform, re-change, get relieve, security of lives and property, eliminate corruption, and deception, recovery of the economy.”

ACCEPT TINUBU AS YORUBA LEADER, NURTW BOSS TELLS S’WEST

As the battle for the soul of the South- West rages between the Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress, a leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Amoda Bello, yesterday urged people of the zone to accept All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, as their leader.
Bello, who spoke with reporters in Akure, the Ondo State capital, said there was no dispute about the fact that after late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the only person that can fit into the shoe of the lage sage is Tinubu who is also the National leader of APC. Also, he said the future of the Yoruba race is not whether there is implementation of report of the 2014 National Conference but the eradication of corruption that has eaten into the fabric of the country and destroyed the future of Yoruba youths.