The National leader of All Progressives Party, APC, and 2023 Presidential Aspirant, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, may be punished for allegedly insulting the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mohammdu Buhari, in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Tinubu ran into troubled waters with his party when he allegedly made disparaging comments against the president.
Tinubu, during his consultation with Ogun State delegates laboriously narrated how he singlehandedly ensured President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in 2015.
Reacting on Saturday on the comment by Tinubu, the National Chairman of th APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, described Tinubu’s it as unbecoming and insulting.
He disclosed that the party’s presidential aspirant, Tinubu may face sanctions over his comments in Ogun State.
Adamu, while addressing Journalists at the party national secretariat, refused to State the kind of punishment that awaits the former Governor of Lagos State.
Adamu said that even Tinubu has made statements reinforcing his respect for the President, the party might take punitive measures.
Adamu stated, “It is amazing how a fellow APC person would make that kind of comment in that kind of circumstances about the president. We take exception to this. It has shown that he does not show any appreciable level of respect for the office of Mr President.
“Therefore we want to make it public that we are saddened by what we saw in the video, in that reportàge and we condemn it in the strongest of terms. We do hope that he would never say that kind of thing again, particularly of the APC extraction to make such kinds of comments.
“Yes, yesterday we saw some part of a retraction but that effort is not adequate. It is not sincere. It is not in-depth enough. It doesn’t wipe out the impression that that event has left in our minds.”
“This morning we saw some traces of withdrawal of those statements. You see these are statements about his intention of actual action.
“Yes, we can’t say we refuse not to see the papers. It happened. He said he has the greatest respect for the president. You see in Hausa there is a proverb that once you take hold of any amount of grass from a thatched house and you pull it off from the roof, you can’t replace the same amount of grass. What is out is out.
“What he did say was not an apology. It’s just like trying to retract and you say I didn’t mean this. It’s a problem of misinterpretation. It is not a regret.
“If there is the need to penalize any member of the party, not just Bola Tinubu, anybody, we will bring him to the party book. Anybody as we watch events as they unfold.” He stated.