Bulletin1247 exclusively gathered that on Tuesday, Tinubu
made frantic efforts to visit President Buhari at the Aso Villa without luck.
The source said the former Lagos State governor, Bola Ahmed
Tinubu's ambition to become Nigeria's President has practically crashed to the
ground after President Muhammadu Buhari rejected former Edo State governor,
Adams Oshiomhole, to support Victor Giadom as Acting National Chairman of the
All Progressives Congress.
Tinubu, a two-term governor of Lagos State, had been
courting President Buhari and the cabal -- a group of power brokers at the Aso
Rock Villa led by late Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari -- with the hope of clinging
the APC Presidential ticket comes 2023.
Tinubu had strategically imposed his loyalist, Oshiomhole, a
former labour movement leader in Nigeria, as APC Chairman hoping that he will
pave the way for him to obtain the APC ticket for 2023 presidential
election.
Tinubu had also convinced himself that by surrendering his
loyalty to President Buhari and the cabal he would be able to curry the favour
of the Northern parts of Nigeria for his presidential ambition.
However, Tinubu's hope of becoming the President was
absolutely dashed on Wednesday as Buhari rejected the Tinubu-Oshiomole
political structure in the APC.
In a derisive statement issued via Twitter on Wednesday,
Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Buhari, Mallam Garba Shehu,
said, “The President has received very convincing advice on the position of the
law as far as the situation in the party is concerned and has determined that
the law was on the side of Victor Giadom as Acting National Chairman.
“Because he will always act in accordance with the law, the
President will be attending the virtual meeting Giadom called for tomorrow
afternoon.
“We urge the media to stop promoting manufactured
controversies and to not give any further room for mischievous interpretations
of the law on this matter.
“In addition to the President, the Giadom meeting will,
hopefully, be attended by our governors and leaders of the National Assembly.”
Bulletin1247 gathered that on Tuesday, Tinubu made frantic
efforts to visit President Buhari at the Aso Villa without luck.
Sources said Tinubu called the President on phone through
the President's Personal Secretary, Yusuf 'Tunde' Sabiu, in order to book an
appointment to see the President.
A source claimed that a jet was revving at the Lagos airport
to convey the "National Leader" to Abuja at the time.
However, Yusuf did not allow the telephone conversation
between Buhari and Tinubu to happen, making it impossible for the former Lagos
State governor to travel to Abuja to see the President.
The root of the divide within the APC is about the party's
choice of candidate for the 2023 presidential election.
Sources revealed that Plateau State governor, Simon Lalung,
Governor of Jigawa State, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, Governor Kayode Fayemi of
Ekiti State, Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu
of Ondo State as well as Senator Ibikunle Amosun and Transportation Minister,
Rotimi Amaechi, all belong to a common bloc that has sworn to embarrass and
ridicule Tinubu's presidential ambition and bury it permanently.
These politicians have teamed up with the Northern elite,
who are close allies of President Buhari such as Mamman Daura, the APC Deputy
National Chairman North, Lawal Shuaibu, Yobe governor, Mai Mala Buni, former
Minister of External Affairs, Baba Gana Kinigbe, Isa Funtua and Muhammad Inuwa
Yahaya, Gombe governor, just to mention a few.
Also, Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State is
opposed to Tinubu's emergence as the APC presidential candidate.
Sources say the political attack on Tinubu is aimed to first
strip him of his national influence, after which his political influence would
also be decimated in Lagos State, his perceived stronghold in a fashion similar
to Senator Bukola Saraki's dethronement in Kwara known by the name
"Otoge", which in Yoruba simply means "Enough is Enough".
Unfortunately, only a few people like Lagos State governor,
Jide Sanwoolu, Tinubu's cousin, Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State, and Senator Omo
Agege still supports him.
Tinubu had decisively battled anybody opposed to his
presidential ambition or, who shows interest in the 2023 presidency.
Recently, Rauf Aregbesola, a close ally of Tinubu and a
minister in the Buhari regime lost favour with Tinubu after information
filtered that Aregbosola could contest the 2023 presidential election as a Vice
Presidential candidate to an unnamed politician.
Tinubu immediately disbanded Aregbesola's groups in Lagos
State, boasting that the former Osun governor was his boy and that the Lagos structure remains undivided.
Tinubu and Oshiomhole had also forced their way through to
impose Abiola Ajimobi as Deputy Chairman, South West of APC.
However, Ajmobi has taken ill and remains in a coma at a
Lagos hospital.
Bulletin1247 had exclusively reported how Ajimobi's health
is failing him despite a series of medical treatments applied to save his life.
This development is coming on the heels of the bitter
division that is mounting up even in the Lagos APC, Tinubu's stronghold.
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