Tinubu strongly warned members of
the former ruling party to remain silent on national issues because they ruined
the country before their exit on Many 29.
He stated this while speaking with
State House correspondents after visiting President Muhammadu Buhari, along
with Bisi Akande at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday.
His visit is coming barely 24 hours
after former president, Olusegun Obasanjo also visited the Presidential Villa.
The former Lagos State governor also
refuted the report in some quarters that himself, former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar and former interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande,
were battling over who would emerge as the chairman of the party’s Board of
Trustees (BoT).
He insisted that the party was focused
on supporting President Buhari to achieve his goal of transforming the nation.
He said, “Don’t listen to rumours,
there is no struggle. Our party is not even looking at the direction of power
struggle or anything of such.
“The support structure is to encourage
and support the President as you have heard from Chief Bisi Akande, to help him
institutionalize his goal, principle and vision for a new Nigeria.”
On people attacking the president
for not releasing his ministerial list, he said: “There is pitfall in rushing,
quick fix, depending upon the depth of the rot. And that rush can cascade into
mistakes of unimaginable magnitude. There is equally glory and recovery in
slowness, when you have a slow fix of a bad foundation.
“So to me, I would rather take the
one that will last the country and endure for a longer period of time than the
rush hour shopping.”
He also disagreed with the Peoples
Democratic Party’s claim that President Buhari was dictatorial.
The APC chieftain said, “I disagree
with that. He was elected on a platform of democracy, he has adhered to rule of
law so far. What is dictatorship about what he has done? He has helped to
stimulate the economy in the various states and that is where the people are.
So what is dictatorship?
“And the institutional paralysis had
occurred in the country. It is very important for a steady man like the
President to really help the nation recover from the paralysis and that is what
he is doing. So I don’t see what is dictatorial about that.”
“If they don’t have anything to say, they
rather be quiet. They created what is wrong here today and we can’t sweep that
under the carpet. There must be rule of law,” he added
Source:dialypost
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