Former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu yesterday reiterated his opposition to the planned national conference, maintaining that it is a waste of time.
Tinubu restated his opposition to the idea in Osogbo, the Osun State capital in a parley with reporters after he held a meeting with leaders of the State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the state government.
The CAN leadership and the state government have not seen eyeball-to-eyeball of late over certain aspects of the Rauf Aregbesola administration’s school reclassification and merger policy.
Tinubu said: “The National Assembly has devoted time to the review of the country’s constitution. What again is the purpose of [Goodluck] Jonathan’s national confab? It is a way of fooling Nigerians. There was no law backing it and whatever comes out of it would be a nullity.
“Those in support of the National Conference are confused people. I am not a confused man, so I cannot support the confab. Those in support have proved to be confused”.
Tinubu, who is one of the national leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC), also gave hint that the process for the emergence of the presidential candidate of the APC has begun even as he assured that the process would be open, transparent and acceptable to all members.
He said the APC was poised to wrestle power from the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government come 2015.
“There has never been crisis in the party and there won’t be any crisis even after the selection of the party’s acceptable candidate”, he said.
He also expressed satisfaction on the successful conclusion of the party’s membership registration exercise nationwide, saying the development was an indication that the opposition party is truly progressive and ready to take over power from the PDP.
On the governorship elections scheduled for June and August in Ekiti and Osun states respectively, the former governor expressed optimism that the APC would remerge victorious at the polls.
He stressed that APC’s dominance in both Southwest states could not be broken by the PDP, due to the popularity the party enjoys among the electorate in those states.
On his chief purpose to Osun State, Tinubu said the crisis bedeviling the education sector in the state had been resolved amicably between the government and the Christian community.
According to him, “Religious crisis cannot occur in Osun state and we shall not allow those behind it to succeed. Education is essential to us and religion is also very important. We shall therefore ensure that the two are not affected. The stakeholders have agreed to give peace a chance in the state.
“Good education is a solution to poverty and we are ready to provide the best for our children. We should not pervert the minds of these young people. Instead, we are ready to provide leadership that would impact positively on their future”.
Tinubu is full of crap. The people of Nigeria are not fools. They understand perfectly what it to have a leader and tinubu isn’t one of the leaderso. He should stop fooling himself and stop his foolishness
He is a man of double standard. In the past, he was one of the advocate of national conference. What was he thinking when he supported it? Now he want nigerians to believe that it is a waste of time. I thinking he is the man wasting his time cos either he likes it or not nigerians will have national conference. He can go to hell for all I care. A man turning governance to family affairs. I am not moved and he his not my mentor obafemi awolowo successor cos my mentor isn’t a tout neither is he thug like him
He is a man of double standard. In the past, he was one of the advocate of national conference. What was he thinking when he supported it? Now he want nigerians to believe that it is a waste of time. I thinking he is the man wasting his time cos either he likes it or not nigerians will have national conference. He can go to hell with him for all I care. A man turning governance to family affairs. I am not moved and he his not my mentor obafemi awolowo successor cos my mentor isn’t a tout neither is he thug like him
Tinubu is a confused man if APC is truly 4 change why then admit corrupt people into d party. U can only bleach a skin u. Can’t change d heart so be quite a little bit reasonable.
having studied d political terrain if APC is indeed working towards d good of naija for them to hav a smooth sail get support and confidence of nigerians to a large extend. .They shld consider d fomer military governor of lagos state d one b4 Tunubu. he is popular in d north in south west he is a household name bcause of KEKE MARWA in south east he has 80/20 chances . also his works in borno and lagos state. he knows what governace is nd a good administrator .,he is religious friendly.
as for those defectors they shld not b taken seriously they spies cancerworms evil wind that blows no good spoilers they only want to know APC strategies secrets formulars having gottem what they want u see them returning to their party using what they got as a straw that will break d camels back
the next tin u hear them say is ‘ PDP’ IS ONE BIG FAMILY’ make una shine una eyes