By Chinelo Obogo
FORMER governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of sponsoring hate media reports against him.
In a statement signed by his Special Media Adviser, Sunday Dare, the national leader of the All progressives Congress (APC), refuted media reports that he was conspiring with Senate President Bukola Saraki to undermine President Muhammadu Buhari, and has therefore, been put under security surveillance by the Federal Government.
In his response, Tinubu stated that since Saraki emerged as Senate president, there has not been communication between them, and as such, there cannot exist any form of conspiracy.
“Media reports claim that Tinubu has joined with Saraki to scuttle the president’s ministerial nominations. Like the rest of us, Tinubu waited for the president to select his cabinet and now that the selections have been made, there is nothing more to do than to congratulate those who would be appointed and pray for them.
“It takes at least two people to make a conspiracy. There has not been substantive communication between Tinubu and Saraki, when the latter decided to foul the integrity of the Senate and the party. It was a crass act of disloyalty, showing that Saraki may have joined the APC on paper, but has remained true to the malpractices and wrong aims of the PDP in his soul.
“Tinubu would not toss aside a life time of labour because of an alleged slight, and certainly would not join Saraki in stemming this government, which may just be the nation’s last best chance to salvage itself. It would be a grave mistake and abuse of office for Saraki to directly or indirectly inject his personal matter into the approval process.
“Therefore, if adhering to the decisions of the party and supporting the government’s visions, qualifies Tinubu for surveillance, then he will accept that.
“However, we know that any such surveillance is not from security agencies. Such activity would come from the PDP and its mercenary allies elsewhere, who would seek to fragment the true core of the APC so that they may scuttle Buhari’s reform programme and return the nation to the mis-governace of the past.
“They seek to break the hearts of the people, and Tinubu would never team up with anyone to gain such an objective,” the statement concluded.
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