Tinubu: I was invited to Obama’s convention

•PDP can’t query me
•I went to discuss with great minds

Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, said yesterday that he was properly invited to the National Democratic Convention in Charlotte  North Carolina, USA, calling those commenting on the matter as unserious people.

Tinubu, who flew into Lagos aboard a private jet, said the dusts raised over the matter in the political circles were unwarranted. The former Lagos governor also said  that the Peoples Democratic Party does not have the moral right to query the type of invitation he got to travel to the USA.

He said his trip is no excuse for PDP’s failure to address issues bordering on poor governance, failed privatisation process of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, unemployment, poverty, insecurity and other socio-economic malaise.

Tinubu said the trip afforded him a good opportunity to discuss with great minds at the convention from where developmental ideas evolved.

He said: “It is unfortunate that we have not been able to distinguish between public contact and a proper democratic convention. There is a great exhibition of Nigerian ignorance and those scavenging  power in its corridors. They do not even appreciate  that fact that we fought for democracy, during the struggle for this democracy, there was a lot of precedent and people outside this country are still watching us.

“I was at the convention. I was invited properly. Who are the people asking me to prove anything? Is it about the high rate of unemployment in this country? Is it about the inability of the ruling party to put food on the table for hungry Nigerians? Is it about the state of electricity in the country that they cannot privatise properly, without blackmailing the former minister of power, whom the government forced to resign because they have the agenda of turning everything into a family affair? The ruling party should busy itself about the infrastructure that are lacking in this country.”