Waiting for bullion van investigations

"To those who have been actively bleating how the President’s actions and the NEC meeting have ended my purported 2023 ambitions, I seek your pity. I am but a mere mortal who does not enjoy the length of foresight or political wisdom you profess to have. Already, you have assigned colourful epitaphs to the 2023 death of an alleged political ambition that is not yet even born."

Bookmarked! Fingers crossed.

He was never interested in being president

Fasindo:









Tinubu


It is now down on Tinubu on the reality of things that's y he is denying his purported 2023 presidential ambition.

By the time Northern cabals finish with Tinubu he will even deny supporting Buhari in 2015 nd 2019.

Welldone. The seer. The prophet who can see the future

Tinubu, the greedy glutton...you think Buhari is OBJ or GEJ? Do anyhow and see anyhow na

Racoon:

Too slow

Mikelarteta:
He had ambition but looked crushed. He shouldn’t lie o

I hail you. You know him more than he knows himself.

Hope you also know yourself as much

ekestic1976:




Tinubu speaks on APC crisis, sack of Oshiomhole, others

June 27, 2020Press Release


I wish to begin my remarks by commending members of the National Working Committee. Under their collective stewardship, the party earned great and important victories, not least the vital second mandate handed to President Buhari. President Buhari’s victory, and the overall electoral success of APC speak highly of them. Our task as a party is to build upon the progress thus made so that both nation and party may advance to their better future.

Yet, we must acknowledge that something important has gone off track. For some months we have experienced growing disagreement within the leadership of the party. This unfortunate competition had grown so intense as to impair the performance of the NWC, thus undermining the internal cohesion and discipline vital to success.

Some people have gone so far as to predict the total disintegration of our party. Most such dire predictions were from critics whose forecasts said more about their ill will than they revealed about our party’s objective condition. Predictions of the APC’s imminent demise are premature and mostly mean-spirited. However, an honest person must admit the party had entered a space where it had no good reason to be.

The trouble is not that we would forfeit our collective existence but whether we were in danger of losing our collective purpose. In some ways, this possibility is of greater concern. A political party that has lost sight of the reason for its existence becomes but the vehicle of blind and clashing ambitions. This is not what drove the APC’s creation.

Those who believe Nigeria can be forged into a better nation and deserves good governance must harken back to the establishment of our party. Those who were there and contributed the most to the party’s genesis embraced a common vision. Not only did we believe the venal, purblind PDP was leading the nation into a pit, we sincerely held a common vision of progressive good governance. This was the overriding reason for the APC.

Those most intimately involved in founding the party remain faithful to this benign, timely assignment. Sadly, many members have lost their balance. Their personal ambition apparently came to greatly outweigh the obvious national imperatives.

Even in the best of times, Nigeria is beset by myriad challenges. Poverty and economic inequality, insecurity, lack of infrastructure are longstanding obstacles that have blocked our access to national greatness for too long.

Through no fault of our own, we now live in a moment of heightened difficulty. We did not ask for COVID-19 but it has found us. We must deal with it and navigate its rude economic consequences. At the same time we must grapple with the violent insecurity caused by increasingly desperate terrorists and criminals. People need concrete help from us. We must focus on building roads and creating jobs. For the average man, watching politicians wrestle for position is a poor substitute to seeing politicians working for the benefit of all.


Yet, such intramural fighting has come to occupy the attention of many high ranking party officials and members.

The National Working Committee, itself, became riven by unnecessary conflict. Those who disagreed with one another stopped trying to find common ground. Attempts were made to use the power of executive authority to bury each other. I must be blunt here. This is the behaviour of a fight club not the culture of a progressive political party.

Some members went against their chairman in a bid to forcefully oust him. In hindsight, his fence-mending attempts were perhaps too little too late. I believed and continue to believe that Comrade Oshiomhole tried his best. Mistakes were made and he must own them. Yet, we must remember also that he was an able and enthusiastic campaigner during the 2019 election. He is a man of considerable ability as are the rest of you who constituted the NWC.

It had been my hope that the disagreements could be resolved. After all, a political solution should not be beyond the ken of leaders of a major political party. But such resolution has failed to materialise. It was as if some unseen but strong force continued to stoke the embers. Instead of calling a prudent ceasefire, too many people sought more destructive weapons against one another.

Order, party discipline and mutual respect went out of the window. Members instituted all manner of court cases, most of them destructive, some of them frivolous, none of them necessary. In the process, a dense fog fell upon our party.

When this matter first came to a boil a few months ago, I issued a statement against this litigious tendency. President Buhari and former interim chairman Akande published strong words against this misuse of the courts as being contrary to the spirit of the party and the letter of its constitution. Each of us knew nothing good would come of such conduct. Instead of listening to this counsel, party members increased their trips to the courts. While busy providing ample livelihood for a gaggle of lawyers, these actions cast the good of the party to the wind.


After the fusillade of lawsuits and countersuits, two NWC members laid competing claims to the chairmanship. One legitimately elected at our national convention; the latter whose claim was based on the questionable suspension of the former.

With lawsuits so numerous one needed a spread sheet to keep track, President Buhari has reasonably decided that he has seen enough.

I do not lament his intervention or its outcome. I lament that the situation degenerated to the point where he felt compelled to intervene.

President Buhari is much more than a mere beneficiary of the party. He is one of its founding fathers. The APC does not exist in its current form without his singular contributions. That is not opinion; it is undisputed fact.

Given these antecedents, he cares about the condition of the party as any parent would care for its offspring. President Buhari has done what any parent in his position and with his authority would do. The more troubling consideration is that so many trusted people acted in such a way as to force the president to put aside the issues of statecraft in order to address these problems.

The President has spoken and his decision has been accepted. It is now beholden on all of us, as members of the APC, to recommit ourselves to the ideals and principles on which our party was founded. While we recognize that people have personal ambitions, those ambitions are secondary, not sacrosanct. Members must subordinate their ambitions to health and well-being of the party. Never should our party be defined by one person’s interests or even the amalgam of all members’ individual interests. A successful party must be greater than the sum of its parts.

In this vein, I appeal to all former members of the National Working Committee and all members of our party to sheathe their swords and look to the larger picture.

We have governorship elections around the corner in Edo and a primary and elections in Ondo. On these important events we must concentrate our immediate energies. In the longer run, we must restore the collegial nature to the party so that it should be in the practice of coming to support the President instead of him having to rescue the party from itself.

In Edo, we must rally round our candidate Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu. In this, Comrade Oshiomhole has a crucial role to play. I congratulate him for his equanimity and loyalty to the party and our President in accepting the dissolution of the NWC. I encourage him, now, to return to Edo State to energise the campaign for the election of Pastor Ize-Iyamu.

In Ondo, we must set the procedures for primaries and conduct that exercise in a fair, transparent manner that shows the Nigerian people the party has left turmoil behind.

In addition to the daily operation of the party, the Caretaker Committee has the mandate to prepare for a mini national convention within six months. We must give the committee the support needed to fulfil this assignment in an impartial manner.

As I understand it, no one has been precluded from seeking any party office to which he is otherwise eligible. Former NWC members are free to seek re-election to the NWC. Provided they have the support of party members, they will have an opportunity to return to serve the party in a leadership capacity. This reflects our overriding desire to restore and maintain internal democracy not subvert it.

To those who have been actively bleating how the President’s actions and the NEC meeting have ended my purported 2023 ambitions, I seek your pity. I am but a mere mortal who does not enjoy the length of foresight or political wisdom you profess to have. Already, you have assigned colourful epitaphs to the 2023 death of an alleged political ambition that is not yet even born.

At this extenuating moment with COVID-19 and its economic fallout hounding us, I cannot see as far into the distance as you. I have made no decision regarding 2023 for the concerns of this hour are momentous enough.

During this period, I have not busied myself with politicking regarding 2023. I find that a bit distasteful and somewhat uncaring particularly when so many of our people have been unbalanced by the twin public health and economic crises we face. I have devoted these last few months to thinking of policies that may help the nation in the here and now. What I may or may not do 3 years hence seems too remote given present exigencies.

Those who seek to cast themselves as political Nostradamus’ are free to so engage their energies. I trust the discerning public will give the views of such eager seers the scant weight such divinations warrant.

Personally, I find greater merit trying to help in the present by offering policy ideas, both privately and publicly, where I think they might help. I will continue in this same mode for the immediate future. 2023 will answer its own questions in due time.

I have toiled for this party as much as any other person and perhaps more than most. Despite this investment or perhaps due to it, I have no problem with making personal sacrifices (and none of us should have such a problem) as long as the party remains true to its progressive, democratic creed. Politics is but a vehicle to arrive at governance. Good politics promotes good governance. Yet, politics is also an uncertain venture. No one gets all they want all the time. In even a tightly-woven family, differences and competing interests must be balanced and accommodated.

My fellow party members who now feel aggrieved by the NEC meeting I urge you to accept the sacrifice you have been asked to make so that the air can be cleared, the party can assume its proper role of helping this government lead the nation toward enlightened improvement, and the party itself can grow and firmly establish itself as the best, most democratic party in the land.

SIGNED

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

27 June 2020.

Excess grammar.

Fact is that Tinubu never declare his ambition for 2023, yet people busy campaigning for him.

My take ,let the president remain in the North as they should continue enjoying the dividend... Insecurities and mind blowing Poverty.

Who President help

Lostz:
we know you want to replace Buhari since 2015.

maybe you finally realized your presidential ambition will remain a dream

How many of you KNOW?

Hope you KNOW the meaning of to KNOW

We are watching...

Listen carefully to the voice of a drawing man. He did not say he will not contest. He said the idea has not been birthed. Tinubu Chicago

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ugochukwufrenzy:
If Tinubu thinks buhari or APC will hand him over the presidential ticket for 2023,then he must be living in a fools paradise...,,his influence will soon be reduced to just Lagos,as those ones never ready to get sense ..

Other states wey get sense still dey follow the state for back

So this is the magic Yoruba god wan perform



Yoruba no Level

Fact

My family can never vote for you.

I'm Igbo,but I like this statement.

Very mature... .

Lol

Hmmmn

Globad:

How many of you KNOW?
Hope you KNOW the meaning of to KNOW

you are not part of the we

Scammer
It's a trap

But for real this man never mentioned anything about 2023 presidential ambition, it was these stupid nyamuriii people who always obsessed with yoruba people going about talking that nonsense. . I hope they can rest now

Forget story,Mr Tinubu, don't tell me it didn't pain you!

Tinubu is not denying that he'll contest in the future.

stephanie11:


https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-tinubu-speaks-on-2023-presidential-ambition-tells-apc-members-what-to-do/

It's good that you have the wise decision to play dumb about your 2023 ambitions

Cuz anything otherwise,it won't bode well for you at all

Am sure you don't want to lose Lagos too come 2023 cuz that is what will happen if you don't behave like a good boy like Ur proxy osinbajo to your fulani masters

So for now,nothing you say henceforth is relevant to us cuz you have been made politically expendable at the national level

My suggestion is you try to save your neck and stick to your regional politics

Am sure you won't like to be made politically irrelevant in your backyard of Lagos too cuz the Present APC cabal can easily do that if you annoy them

And don't think they have forgotten the setup with the 2 bullion vans ..

EFCC loading...

Lies, not thinking of 2023 but setting up support group


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rpTBxhP8Dc

Isnt he too old to be thinking of presidency

Lol.... Party scatter

kaylardz:
Ibo people will not like this

Your a big fool for calling out the igbo tribe..
For all to care is been only his fellow yorubas that have both been bashing, mocking and writing articles in newspapers of how the Fulanis has downgraded Tinubu to a mere internally displaced person...

Be guided next time.

Fasindo:









Tinubu


It is now down on Tinubu on the reality of things that's y he is denying his purported 2023 presidential ambition.

By the time Northern cabals finish with Tinubu he will even deny supporting Buhari in 2015 nd 2019.

Uncle, you get mouth I swear.

Hahahahaha

It is safer for Boko Haram Shekarau to become Nigeria's President than for that wicked, selfish, ruthless, tribalistic drug baron cum political godfather of the Yorubas to become Nigeria's President!!


He will sell Nigeria and put the change in his corrupt Agbada!


He will make his wife the Senate President, his son the Speaker of House of Reps....and his killer machine MC Oluomo the Chief of Army Staff.....and Lagos agberos will relocate to Abuja and also have offices in all Nigerian state capitals collecting Owomida from every motorists in Nigeria, Tufiakwa

Fasindo:









Tinubu


It is now down on Tinubu on the reality of things that's y he is denying his purported 2023 presidential ambition.

By the time Northern cabals finish with Tinubu he will even deny supporting Buhari in 2015 nd 2019.

Tinubu has never purported 2023 presidential ambitious. If you're doubting, show me a proof where he stated that.