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.