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He said the CONFAB was not necessary. The National Dialogue is a waste of time. I personally think we need Town Hall Meetings with the PRESIDENT like they do in America! Remember how I got Chief Bill Blair in Toronto to start having them when gun violence got bad? Come to the neighborhoods Mr Jonathan and I will moderate them. Nigerians need acciuntability!!
He returned from abroad yesterday after knee surgery. He is our future and I need to secure an interview with him. Below is the Nigerian Tribune report of his arrival.
Former governor of Lagos State, Chief Ahmed Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, arrived the country to a tumultuous welcome by governors, All Progressive Congress (APC) chieftains and party faithful, among others who thronged the Executive Jet near the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja.
Both governors Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti) and Rauf Aregbesola (Osun) were joined by Senator Oluremi, wife of Tinubu, Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Adeyemi Ikuforiji, former Deputy Governor Rafiu Ogunleye, Lagos APC chairman, Chief Henry Ajomale, Senator Ganiyu Solomon, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, commissioners and local government chairmen, to welcome the APC national leader, whose chartered plane with registration no: CS-OPF touched down at around 1:32pm from the United Kingdom.
As the plane parked and the door was opened, Tinubu’s wife, Oluremi, led the way, followed by her daughter, Folasade Ojo and governors Fayemi and Aregbesola to welcome the former, who went for a knee surgery at US and UK hospitals for two months.
The former governor later emerged at 1:38pm waving, while the crowd of supporters became ecstatic as governors and other party chieftains took turn to have snap-shots with him before he finally alighted from the plane and was led into his waiting jeep.
He later addressed the press as he spoke through the roof of the vehicle taking a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan-led government over the recent move to convene a national conference and the air disaster that affected the corpse of former Governor Olusegun Agagu, in which 13 people died. He also spoke on his newly registered party, the APC.
Tinubu described the move by President Jonathan to hold a national conference right now in the country as unnecessary, a contradiction and a distraction, as well as a demonstration of lack of honesty and integrity on the part of the government.
The APC national leader, while querying the timing of the dialogue, asked: “When? How long have we been talking of it? It is only a very smart rodent in a house full of little crumbles of poison that will survive.”
The former governor, who further wondered why the focus on national dialogue should come around now, maintained that some salient issues had been jettisoned and should be addressed as a matter of priority.
“But Nigeria is very divisive right now, so why is this necessary? Where is the sovereignty? What about the Electoral Act, what about the Lemu Committee? Have you heard of a White Paper or green paper or pink paper come out of that for Nigerians? Why? How many months to the elections? How many months to the election?
Can’t you smell a good look porridge; can’t you smell a pit latrine and the odour of deception when it is passing by?” he queried.
He dismissed the suggestion that the election be postponed in other to have the national conference discuss the way forward for the country, saying “that is the saying of a thief, because he wants to continue to pilfer because he is enjoying as a thief.”
“What are you postponing about the election? Is it with the head you walk or with the feet? You must stand on something,” he added.
Former governor of Lagos State, Chief Ahmed Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, arrived the country to a tumultuous welcome by governors, All Progressive Congress (APC) chieftains and party faithful, among others who thronged the Executive Jet near the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja.
Both governors Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti) and Rauf Aregbesola (Osun) were joined by Senator Oluremi, wife of Tinubu, Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Adeyemi Ikuforiji, former Deputy Governor Rafiu Ogunleye, Lagos APC chairman, Chief Henry Ajomale, Senator Ganiyu Solomon, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, commissioners and local government chairmen, to welcome the APC national leader, whose chartered plane with registration no: CS-OPF touched down at around 1:32pm from the United Kingdom.
As the plane parked and the door was opened, Tinubu’s wife, Oluremi, led the way, followed by her daughter, Folasade Ojo and governors Fayemi and Aregbesola to welcome the former, who went for a knee surgery at US and UK hospitals for two months.
The former governor later emerged at 1:38pm waving, while the crowd of supporters became ecstatic as governors and other party chieftains took turn to have snap-shots with him before he finally alighted from the plane and was led into his waiting jeep.
He later addressed the press as he spoke through the roof of the vehicle taking a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan-led government over the recent move to convene a national conference and the air disaster that affected the corpse of former Governor Olusegun Agagu, in which 13 people died. He also spoke on his newly registered party, the APC.
Tinubu described the move by President Jonathan to hold a national conference right now in the country as unnecessary, a contradiction and a distraction, as well as a demonstration of lack of honesty and integrity on the part of the government.
The APC national leader, while querying the timing of the dialogue, asked: “When? How long have we been talking of it? It is only a very smart rodent in a house full of little crumbles of poison that will survive.”
The former governor, who further wondered why the focus on national dialogue should come around now, maintained that some salient issues had been jettisoned and should be addressed as a matter of priority.
“But Nigeria is very divisive right now, so why is this necessary? Where is the sovereignty? What about the Electoral Act, what about the Lemu Committee? Have you heard of a White Paper or green paper or pink paper come out of that for Nigerians? Why? How many months to the elections? How many months to the election?
Can’t you smell a good look porridge; can’t you smell a pit latrine and the odour of deception when it is passing by?” he queried.
He dismissed the suggestion that the election be postponed in other to have the national conference discuss the way forward for the country, saying “that is the saying of a thief, because he wants to continue to pilfer because he is enjoying as a thief.”
“What are you postponing about the election? Is it with the head you walk or with the feet? You must stand on something,” he added.
