Rivers State governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, Magnus Abe, has said comments made by a presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, about President Muhammadu Buhari is a statement of fact no one can deny and the outcry is to destroy him in a classic ‘use and dump fashion’.
KEMI FILANI NEWS had reported that Tinubu had on Thursday while addressing Ogun APC delegates at the Presidential Lodge in Abeokuta, claimed that without him, Buhari would not have become the president in 2015.
Reacting to the outburst, Abe, who represented Rivers South-East district in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Parry Saroh Benson, insisted that there is nothing new or different about the statement, which has been publicly admitted by the President himself.
The statement read, “It is no longer news to all genuine lovers of the APC, that the past seven years have witnessed all sorts of evil plots by desperate politicians to destroy the fabric of unity between President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“He did not say anything new, which Nigerians do not know. So, the politically contrived hue and cry about the factual statement is to create disunity between both leaders in order to promote their plots to upstage Asiwaju and destroy him in a classic ‘use and dump fashion’.
“I appeal to all members of our great party, the APC, to disregard the innuendos aimed at painting Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in bad light as, in the minds of the plotters, there is nothing he will do that will not attract condemnation.
“Delegates should focus on their future, the future of the country and our Party, and ignore these chameleons and wolves in sheep’s clothing; Asiwaju we know and Asiwaju we shall follow.
“Therefore, I urge all party faithful to be firm, especially delegates and be committed to the success of our party.”
