Former senator and Rivers State governorship aspirant of the
All Progressives Congress, Magnus Abe, has supported comments made by a
presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, about the President, Muhammadu Buhari.
Tinubu had caused a stir on Thursday when he claimed that
without him, Buhari would not have become the president in 2015.
The former governor of Lagos State made the statement at the
Presidential Lodge in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, when he was addressing the
APC delegates ahead of the party’s primary.
Reacting to the outburst, Abe, who represented Rivers
South-East district in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, described
Tinubu’s remarks as a statement of fact no one can deny.
In a statement signed by his spokesperson, Parry Saroh
Benson, on Saturday, Abe insisted that there is
nothing new or different about the statement, which has been publicly admitted
by the President himself.
The statement quoted Abe as saying, “It is no longer news to
all genuine lovers of the APC, that the past seven years have witnessed all
sorts of evil plots by desperate politicians to destroy the fabric of unity
between President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju
Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“He did not say anything new, which Nigerians do not know.
So, the politically contrived hue and cry about the factual statement is to
create disunity between both leaders in order to promote their plots to upstage
Asiwaju and destroy him in a classic ‘use and dump fashion’.
“I appeal to all
members of our great party, the APC, to disregard the innuendos aimed at
painting Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in bad light as, in the minds of the
plotters, there is nothing he will do that will not attract condemnation.
“Delegates should focus on their future, the future of the
country and our Party, and ignore these chameleons and wolves in sheep’s
clothing; Asiwaju we know and Asiwaju we shall follow.
“Therefore, I urge all party faithful to be firm, especially
delegates and be committed to the success of our party.”
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