The National Leader of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, has
disclosed that he had never done anything wrong to
the chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Chief Bode George, that will make him
apologise to him.

Tinubu added that George was trying to implicate
him in the criminal proceedings, which the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC), an agency of the federal government,
initiated against him concerning financial
irregularities brought against him at the Nigerian
Ports Authority (NPA).

He provided the clarification in a statement by his
media assistant, Mr. Sunday Dare yesterday,
insisting that he did not “know when and how he
ever offended the PDP chieftain. I have never
wronged the man or even thought of it. I sought no
forgiveness because no forgiveness was needed.”
According to him, George claims the alleged
apology was made at the burial of Chief Alao
Arisekola.

“On that date, personalities such as Oba Otudeko
and Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State
approached me because I did not greet George
initially.”
On this note, he said the personalities pleaded with
him to greet George, at least in the memory of
Arisekola, whom they gathered “to honour. On this
ground, they said, I should greet George. At their
request, I turned back and came to greet him by
saying: ‘Good afternoon, Egbon.’ That was all.
“If George wishes to interpret that as an apology,
he has the right to do so. I also have the right to
state categorically that no apology was made or
even intended. I think he is trying to find a way to
walk back from his election hyperbole that he
would go on exile if the APC won the Lagos State
governorship election.

“He realises that Lagos under the APC is a very
good place to live after all. If he wants to remain in
Lagos, he does not have to manufacture an excuse
or explain away his bad words. Neither the APC
nor I have any aims against him. In the election,
the people rejected his party and his brand of
politics. That is enough for us.
He, however, observed that the PDP chieftain “is
still trying to implicate me as instigating the
criminal proceedings once lodged against him.
From my recollection, George was found guilty by
a court of competent jurisdiction based on
convincing evidence of wrongdoing. He insults the
judiciary by implying that his conviction was
wrongly derived.”


The national leader explained that George adduced
more power to him than what he could possibly
wield, noting that he had never had nor sought
much influence in those circles outside his
statutory office or his purview.

He said: “I am flattered, but in all humility I must
protest the false assessment. If he can remember,
the government of the day was that of the PDP. He
was charged by the government ruled by his own
party for an offence concerning financial
irregularities at the Nigeria Port Authority, NPA, an
appointment he received from the same
government.”

He, therefore, said it was an incredible tale indeed
“to state that somehow I could direct a party that
tried to dismantle the progressive political
structure of my party to bring down one of its key
members.

“The more plausible explanation for his legal
tribulation was that a member of his own cabal
blew the whistle on George’s antics for reasons
that only he and that person truly know. The rest is
now history,” he explained.

He added that he believed George was convicted of
invoice splitting, a violation of financial regulations,
noting that the malpractice “is a deliberate
circumvention of the law so that the culprit may
approve expenditures above his mandated
authority to do so and without proper oversight.
“In the end, it was George’s own hand and actions
that led to his incarceration more than anything I
could ever have done. But we have moved on to
greater progress. We have no time or inclination to
trouble ourselves by troubling George. Any trouble
he is experiencing is a product of his own mind,”
he explained.






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