APC Chieftain, Bola Tinubu
Newly elected APC lawmakers must tow the party line or be whipped out of the party, Bola Tinubu has said

Mr Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, said that party discipline would be upheld in addressing the leadership tussle of the 9th National Assembly.

Mr Tinubu said this while speaking with journalists in Lagos on Friday after a prayer programme organised by Islamic and Christian clerics to mark his 67th birthday.

“Party discipline is key, we must be discipline in the party. We were a little careless in 2015. We created the opportunity for serpent to get into our party and that did not allow Nigeria to make the desired progress.


“You have seen the result of it and we are not going to allow that to happen again. We are going to respect our party and we are going to apply the whip.


“It is either you stay with us or you follow us or you leave. You have the freedom to choose but the freedom does not give you as a minority to go and collaborate and protrude our mandate given to you to another party who was our opposition and who is still our opposition.

“We would not take that this time, no matter who you think you are. That is how it is built. Why do you want to deviate from what has been structured?

“We look at our reward system equally, zone by zone,” he said.

The APC leadership recently declared support for Yobe senator, Ahmed Lawan to become the next Senate President. Lagos lawmaker and Mr Tinubu’s protege, Femi Gbajabiamila, was also endorsed to become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

The move was condemned by other APC lawmakers including Borno senator, Ali Ndume, who seeks to be the Senate president. Mr Ndume has vowed to continue with his ambition, saying he enjoys the support of many of the elected APC senators.


A Gombe senator, Danjuma Goje, is also in the race to be Senate President.

The APC enjoys a clear majority in the incoming Senate, winning over 60 of the 109 Senate seats.

The party is expected to produce the Senate president, but as it happened in 2015, a different candidate other than that endorsed by the party leadership may emerge the winner of the topmost legislative position.

While both Messrs Lawan and Gbajabiamila were endorsed for the positions in 2015, Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara emerged the Senate President and Speaker of the House respectively.

The two winners later defected from the APC to the PDP.

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The national leader of APC (slave master) has spoken! Hisexcellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Tinubu na chief not Mr.

Elder statesman.

Very good. Mr President should allow Tinubu to handle the red chamber and green chamber matter.

The only senators Tinubu has control over are APC senators from the SW.The NASS is not same as the LSHA

BuhariAdvocate:
Very good. Mr President should allow Tinubu to handle the red chamber and green chamber matter.

Lol Tinubu handle the NASS thst has majority of members outside the SW? What poo are you smoking? The one he handled in 2015 how did it turn out?

PaChukwudi44:
The only senators Tinubu has control over are APC senators from the SW.The NASS is not same as the LSHA

Well said my brother.

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BuhariAdvocate:
Very good. Mr President should allow Tinubu to handle the red chamber and green chamber matter.

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Meaning Tinubu will then take over as the next APC undertaker after the toutish Adams Oshiomole The NASS is a conglomerate of senators from different parties even if the APC have a simple majority

This threatening will not do the party any good but add to its existing woes The in-house senators will simply league with their counterparts from the other political divide and repeat the 2015 debacle

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Why should the SW be fighting to have the Speakership whenn they also have the VP. Two out of the 6 top positions in tge country.

Are there not 6 regions in thia nation again?

APC honestly disgusts me at times.

If Buhari like let him not listen this time
No time for neutrality

Majority of people not supporting the structured benefits of the APC are PDP sympathizers

Asiwaju has spoken 2015 is not repeating itself again

will you keep quiet and allow someone who have sense to talk instead of wasting space here.

PaChukwudi44:

Lol Tinubu handle the NASS thst has majority of members outside the SW? What poo are you smoking? The one he handled in 2015 how did it turn out?

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BuhariAdvocate:
will you keep quiet and allow someone who have sense to talk instead of wasting space here.

[/s]You are rather the one to keep quiet as almost all Chukwudi predictions have come esp the Saraki and Ekweremadu completing their Senate leadership issue and the ongoing Justice Onneghen issue

WiLdFLame:
If Buhari like let him not listen this time
No time for neutrality

Majority of people not supporting the structured benefits of the APC are PDP sympathizers

Asiwaju has spoken 2015 is not repeating itself again

Your Asiwaju has no say on who becomes speaker and SP.

MadeInTokyo:

Another Saraki and Dogara palaver loading by June

Lawan will not be Senate President---Quote me

Tinubu will be shown by June this year that APC Senators are not Lagos state house of assembly lawmakers that he can give orders

it was oyegun that was the mistake.

Then you have the best political brain right now In Africa to battle with
You just signed your death warrant

PaChukwudi44:

Your Asiwaju has no say on who becomes speaker and SP.

Johnnyessence how many account you will open here to perpetrates your evil.

Racoon:
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You yamirin wants to eats where you did not sow
Lailai...go and meet your people who voted Atiku to claim your speakership as for Buhari government...nothing for Una

nameo:
Why should the SW be fighting to have the Speakership whenn they also have the VP. Two out of the 6 top positions in tge country.

Are there not 6 regions in thia nation again?

APC honestly disgusts me at times.

PaChukwudi44:

Your Asiwaju has no say on who becomes speaker and SP.

the majority will win.
tinubu is the voice of the majority.
can one stubborn fly fight the party? which is the majority.
one stubborn fly like thief saraki can not be the majority,
that is how oyegun failed woefully by allowing thief saraki to stay in the party even for one day.

buhariguy:
it was oyegun that was the mistake.

oyegun that won the presidency for APC and won over 10 states?.

Oshiohmole lost 6 and kano,zamfara and osun might still go to PDP.

So who's mistake is it?

WiLdFLame:
Then you have the best political brain right now In Africa to battle with
You just signed your death warrant

"Best political brain indeed.His influence starts and ends in the SW.I wonder if a man who wins elections by thuggery is the best the SW has to offer

buhariguy:
the majority will win.
tinubu is the voice of the majority.
can one stubborn fly fight the party? which is the majority.
one stubborn fly like thief saraki can not be the majority,
that is oyegun failed woefully by allowing thief saraki to stay in the party even for one day.

Tinubu does not speak for the northern and SS/SE senators.

The only reason Gbajabiamilla lost in 2015 was because there didn't want a Tinubu stooge.The same thing will happen again.

WiLdFLame:
You yamirin wants to eats where you did not sow
Lailai...go and meet your people who voted Atiku to claim your speakership as for Buhari government...nothing for Una

do you know buhari performed better in south east that every other region?.

In 2015 they give him 5%, in 2019, they gave him 19%. Buhari failed woefully in the south west by losing two states to atiku and almost lost osun.

PaChukwudi44:

"Best political brain indeed.His influence starts and ends in the SW.I wonder if a man who wins elections by thuggery is the best the SW has to offer

If you can influence and deliver a polling unit, have total control of it, then you can look little on Tinubu.

This short ugly frog eyes no go let us heard word again.
Budillion looter.

WiLdFLame:
You yamirin wants to eats where you did not sow
Lailai...go and meet your people who voted Atiku to claim your speakership as for Buhari government...nothing for Una

The same noise you people made yet Ekweremadu emerged the DSP.It is called NATIONAL assembly not APC assembly

PaChukwudi44:

Tinubu does not speak for the northern and SS/SE senators.

The only reason Gbajabiamilla lost in 2015 was because there didn't want a Tinubu stooge.The same thing will happen again.

Concerning speaker,ill agree with you.let the ss/se take it while sw/nc take deputy

PaChukwudi44:

The same noise you people made yet Ekweremadu emerged the DSP.It is called NATIONAL assembly not APC assembly

Something tells me ss will be dsp and se deputy speaker