Tinubu to PDP: Be quiet, you created what is wrong in Nigeria!
…Dismisses rift with Akande, Atiku over BOT chairman
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NIGERIA: THE National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has lashed out at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for describing President Muhammadu Buhari as a dictatorial ruler.
To Tinubu, the PDP was talking balderdash, hence it is better for the party leaders to keep quiet if they have nothing meaningful in their kitty to tell.
In the same breath, the APC chieftain clarified that there was no rift among the leaders of the party over who becomes the chairman of the Board of Trustees (BOT).
The APC leader spoke with State House correspondents after he visited Buhari in company of the one-time interim Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Tinubu told the PDP leaders: “If they don’t have anything to say, they rather be quiet! They created what is wrong here today and we can’t sweep that under the carpet. There must be rule of law.”
While defending Buhari, the APC chieftain said that he disagreed with the appellation by the PDP, saying that the President was elected on a platform of democracy, and he has been adhering to the rule of law since assumption of office.
“What is dictatorship about what he has done?” Tinubu queried, adding: “He has helped to stimulate the economy in the various states and that is where the people are. So what is dictatorship?”
The ex-Lagos State Governor added: “And the institutional paralysis had occurred in the country. It is very important for a steady man like the President to really help the nation recover from the paralysis and that is what he is doing. So I don’t see what is dictatorial about that.”
On the alleged rift in APC, Tinubu said there was no iota of truth in the claim that three of them – himself, ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Akande – were at loggerheads over the Board of Trustees seat.
He stated that there was no such rivalry, while stressing that instead the party’s focus has been on the continued support to Buhari to enable him achieve the administration’s goal of transforming the country.
“Don’t listen to rumors, there is no struggle. Our party is not even looking at the direction of power struggle or anything of such,” he said, adding: “The support structure is to encourage and support the President as you have heard from Chief Bisi Akande, to help him institutionalize his goal, principle and vision for a new Nigeria.”
On the delay in the release of the ministerial list, Tinubu said: “There is pitfall in rushing, quick fix, depending upon the depth of the rot. And that rush can cascade into mistakes of unimaginable magnitude. There is equally glory and recovery in slowness, when you have a slow fix of a bad foundation.
“So to me, I would rather take the one that will last the country and endure for a longer period of time than the rush hour shopping.”
