The national leader of the All
Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has reacted to pictures of
him with some members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos on
Wednesday.
Tinubu, in a statement by his
spokesperson, Tunde Rahman, denied any allegiance with PDP, explaining that the
picture was only taken when PDP women led by former spokesperson of Department
of State Services, DSS, cornered the former Lagos governor at the airport and
begged him for a selfie which is now being used for blackmail by the opposition
party.
He stressed that Tinubu’s picture
with the PDP women leaders which has gone viral is being used by PDP ‘warriors’
to blackmail and indicate that the national leader of APC may quit his party
ahead of Saturday’s presidential election.
The statement read: “Yesterday on
our way to Abuja, APC Leader, Asiwaju Tinubu, bumped into some PDP stalwarts at
the Private Terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja.
“These people who included ex-DSS
Spokesperson Marilyn Ogah sought for a selfie with Asiwaju. Because he knows
Ogah well and because of his mature politics, he allowed what he thought was a
seemingly innocuous request.
“Now, Marilyn Ogah and PDP
elements have turned this noble gesture depicted in the photograph below into
propaganda machinery and an instrument of blackmail.
“They even want to place this
photograph as an advertorial in Newspaper in their desperate attempt to smear
Asiwaju and curry support. The photograph has been turned into an instrument of
blackmail. This is sad indeed.
“With the way she is using this
photograph, Marilyn Ogah has sunken low. Many who were there saw how they
forcefully demanded the photograph and Asiwaju obliged them even without his
trademark cap. Please ignore their propaganda.
“There is nothing more to the
photograph than an acceptance of a seemingly harmless request for a
photograph.”
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