Buhari and Tinubu
In a statement made available to correspondents in Osogbo on
Sunday, a group of Yoruba youths known as the Yoruba Youth
Socio-cultural Association, warned Asiwaju Bola Tinubu against
supporting President Muhammadu Buhari’s reelection in 2019.
According to PUNCH Newspaper, the President of the YYSA, Olalekan
Hammed, who made the position of the group known, said it had become
obvious that the All Progressives Congress and Buhari did not value the
contributions of Tinubu towards the party and the emergence of Buhari as
the President in 2015.
Hammed said the position of former President Olusegun Obasanjo that
Tinubu did not hold any post within the APC was justifiable, saying
Buhari had written the Independent National Electoral Commission to
state that he was the national leader of the APC.
The statement said, “The fact that President Muhammadu Buhari
deliberately wrote INEC to affirm his position as the APC national
leader vindicates the former President Obasanjo who had sometime
challenged the former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to state
his roles in the APC as the national leader of the party.
“Constitutionally, APC has no reasonable provision for him (Tinubu) in the party and he has been used and dumped.
“It would have been better and respectable, provided Mr Buhari
did not write to INEC or talk about the issue. The letter he wrote to
the electoral umpire to attest that he is the party’s national leader
was aimed at ridiculing Tinubu.
“Yoruba people understand body language more than any other
tribe in Nigeria. There is no sense in staying with people who do not
appreciate your presence or feel your impact.
“The YYSA implores Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to think twice
before supporting Buhari’s re-election bid. There is no difference
between someone who steals your property and someone who shows no
gratitude for all the favour rendered to him.”