National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, has disclosed that the former Lagos State Governor, Sen. Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s tirades on President Muhammadu Buhari as “unbecoming and insulting”.
Je said that at the appropriate time, the party may punish the Lagos political godfather for his outburst in Ogun on Thursday in which he said that without him Muhammadu Buhari would not have won the 2015 and 2019 presidential elections.
Sen. Adamu stressed that Tinubu may face sanctions for the outburst in Abeokuta, while meeting with delegates.
Tinubu at the session with the party delegates including the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, narrated how he laboured to ensure President Muhammadu Buhari’s emergence as the APC presidential candidate in 2014.
Tinubu lamented that seven years after, he has been shortchanged.
Speaking with journalists on Saturday at the APC national secretariat, Sen. Adamu said Tinubu insulted President Buhari at the meeting and described that as unbecoming and insulting.
He did not however elaborate on the nature of the sanction awaiting Tinubu.
Meanwhile, the party’s screening committee said only one aspirant rejected the option of a consensus presidential candidate for the party.
Recall that the campaign team of Tinubu has vehemently rejected the idea of choosing the party’s flag bearer by consensus.
John Odigie-Oyegun, the chairperson of the screening committee, disclosed this to journalists that all other 22 presidential aspirants reportedly agreed to the consensus candidacy option if there was ‘proper consultation.
He said: “We engaged every aspirant on the issue of consensus and it was a pleasant surprise that 99 per cent agreed that the party is supreme and whatever the party finally decides, with proper consultation, they were likely to accept.
“There is only one person that said I will accept consensus as long as it is based on me.
“So, I think it is a point I need to emphasize on it. That gives you a way in the hours ahead to trim down even more drastically. But finally, we think we should not be afraid of the contested primary if anybody insists on the contest,” he said.
