APC National Chairman condemns Tinubu’s utterances about President Buhari

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The leadership of Nigeria’s governing party the All Progressives Congress, APC has condemned the utterances made by one of its top leaders, Mr. Bola Tinubu about Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari.

The APC National Chairman, Senator Adamu Abdullahi made the condemnation in a press briefing in reaction to Mr. Tinubu saying his efforts made President Buhari win the 2015 Presidential election.

Even though Mr. Tinubu has made efforts to retract his statement, the APC National Chairman said his effort to retract is not sufficient.

”His utterances are very very insulting. It’s very unbecoming for a person of that standing to do what he did to the sitting president of the federal republic of Nigeria: the President produced by the votes of the APC. Though he’s the president he belongs to everybody. It is amazing how a fellow APC person would make that kind of comment in that kind of circumstances about the president. We take exception to this. It has shown that he does not show any appreciable level of respect for the office of Mr President.

“Therefore we want to make it public that we are saddened by what we saw in the video, in that reportàge and we condemn it in the strongest of terms. We do hope that he would never say that kind of thing again.

“Yes, yesterday we saw some part of a retraction but that effort is not adequate. It is not sincere. It is not in-depth enough. It doesn’t wipe out the impression the event has left in our minds. What is out is out. What he did say was not an apology. It’s just like trying to retract and you say I didn’t mean this. It’s a problem of misinterpretation. It is not a regret” Adamu said.

The APC National Chairman said if there is need to penalize Mr. Tinubu. The party will penalize him.

Also speaking on the report of the APC Presidential Screening Committee that scaled the list of the presidential aspirants who were screened from 23 to 13, the APC National Chairman said the party has not disqualified any aspirant as reported in the media.

“I want to say very clearly that no aspirant has been disqualified. It’s like sitting in an exam. Even if you pass there is grading from first-class to ordinary pass. So no aspirant was disqualified. Incidentally, the president has invited all of them to a dinner today” Adamu said.

Emmanuel Ukoh