Presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has said his recent speech, in Abeokuta, on his presidential ambition did not demonstrate any disrespect to President Muhammadu Buhari.

A statement signed by the Director, Media and Communications, Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organisation, Bayo Onanuga, Friday said, no time did Tinubu play any ethnic card or denigrate any ethnic group.

He noted that the main thrust of Tinubu’s presentation was that his huge contributions to the formation and electoral success of the ruling APC should count in his favour, as a true party man who desires to be the flag bearer.

“That is surely out of his character, as Engineer David Babachir Lawal, attested in his viral whatsApp statement. Tinubu’s speech did not demonstrate any disrespect to Buhari for whom he has a very high regard, and whose re-election campaign he chaired in 2019.

“Since the video of the speech he delivered in Yoruba hit the social media, varied interpretations have been given to the speech, which in the main was about Governor Abiodun, who in the true tradition of Yoruba culture bowed to his leader after Tinubu’s short speech,” the statement partly read.

According to Onanuga, the fresh conditions proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari for the consideration of a presidential candidate of the party made it necessary for Asiwaju to labour to convince the delegates that he fits the bill.

“We are least surprised that he is the target of well-calculated and most unkind virulent attacks,” he said.

He described the former Lagos governor as a great party man and remains the man to beat at the party’s convention on Monday.

“In his effort to convince the party delegates to vote for him at the primaries, he went down memory lane to provide specific instances when he brought his political clout and strategic skills to assist individuals, groups and tendencies in the party to gain political power.

“These factual references are already in the public realm. They have been reported and analysed in the media in the last eight years. They are therefore matters of public knowledge,” he said.

Meanwhile, the campaign organisation has appealed to the media to avoid over-sensationalising issues of facts and play its constitutional role of informing the electorate to make informed choices at the presidential primaries.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/06/tinubu-replies-critics-says-speech-didnt-disrespect-buhari-north/amp/

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Can he remember what he said with his dementia?

Oga you are architect of your own down fall.

You are now handicap. Go and lick your wound in peace and spare us that crap.

Your zombie supporters are really disappointed in u.

So tinubu want Buhari to hand over president to him?Is he drunk or what?

No apology since no offence was commited

On Dapo he said


He said and I qoute

1: Dapo that’s sitting down here, could he have become Governor without me

2: We were at the stadium; they tore all his posters. Even the party flag, they didn’t want to hand over it to him. I was the one who brought it. If he wants to meet God at the right place, he must know that without God and me, he would not have become Governor.”

On Osinbajo he said
Osinbajo

Tinubu said and I qoute

1: “This is me telling you between me and God Almighty, Buhari called me to be his Vice President. He said because the first time he contested, he picked (Chuba) Okadigbo, flamboyant, Catholic, but Nigerians didn’t vote for him.

2: The second time, he picked another Igbo, (Edwin) Ume-Ezeoke, Nigerians didn’t vote for him. And he said that even if he went to bring the Pope to run as his deputy, Nigerians won’t vote for him, but he said, ‘You, Bola Tinubu, you have six governors, you have never lost an election before, come and be my deputy”‘.

“He knew all the calculations then favoured us, that is why he wanted me as his deputy, but I told him to let us build the party first. And when we finished building the party after we brought in people from the PDP, (Bukola) Saraki now saw that those from the PDP would not get anything if Buhari, a Muslim, became the president and I, also a Muslim, became his deputy. He won’t get the Senate president because the Senate president cannot also be a Muslim; that was how they started the campaign of calumny against me.

“And I told them that I have a candidate that is a Christian that I could nominate so that the party would not break. That was how I nominated Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. I surrendered my right to him (Osinbajo).

“I was asked to submit three names, Yemi Cardozo, Wale Edun, and Yemi Osinbajo, but I told them if I submit three names, they would play a game, they might make it four and pick the fourth one. I gave them one name and that was Osinbajo.”


On Buhari he said and I quote

1: “If not for me that led the war front, Buhari won’t have emerged. He contested first, second and third times, but lost. He even said on television that he won’t contest again.

2: “But I went to his home in Katsina, I told him you would contest and win, but you won’t joke with the matters of the Yoruba.




So where is the attack

But you disrespected Dapo Dagboru?

Abi as a “thing”, him(it) own no matter?

Sunofgod:
Can he remember what he said with his dementia?

Eleribu ni e... If he talk am wetin go happen? Gbogbo yin ti ya werey.

Tinubu thinks Nigerians are as fóolish as his urchins and that's where he always makes mistakes

The Norths action, will also not be a disrespect to u
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You know what this look means??

Tinubu has succeeded in lying about his age but his brain is telling the truth

We hear you sir, we appreciate you sir, but dont you think you should give it a rest... take the bow, save your name, save your legacy... throw in the hat...

Vote right, vote labour, vote peter obi....

No need for any damage control. We all listened to him carefully and understood clearly what he meant.

He reminded the Buhari that APC is not CPC.

Man rest what's the problem exactly telling people about your achievement in the past shouldn't be consider as a disrespect to any individual but if its otherwise such an individual should go and die.
Buhari is just an ordinary mortal for goodness sake.

Yes you made Buhari a president .