The National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has asked the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party to keep its mouth shut if it has nothing meaningful to say.
Tinubu strongly warned members of the former ruling party to remain silent on national issues because they ruined the country before their exit on Many 29.
He stated this while speaking with State House correspondents after visiting President Muhammadu Buhari, along with Bisi Akande at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday.
His visit is coming barely 24 hours after former president, Olusegun Obasanjo also visited the Presidential Villa.
The former Lagos State governor also refuted the report in some quarters that himself, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, were battling over who would emerge as the chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT).
He insisted that the party was focused on supporting President Buhari to achieve his goal of transforming the nation.
He said, “Don’t listen to rumours, there is no struggle. Our party is not even looking at the direction of power struggle or anything of such.
“The support structure is to encourage and support the President as you have heard from Chief Bisi Akande, to help him institutionalize his goal, principle and vision for a new Nigeria.”
On people attacking the president for not releasing his ministerial list, he said: “There is pitfall in rushing, quick fix, depending upon the depth of the rot. And that rush can cascade into mistakes of unimaginable magnitude. There is equally glory and recovery in slowness, when you have a slow fix of a bad foundation.
“So to me, I would rather take the one that will last the country and endure for a longer period of time than the rush hour shopping.”
He also disagreed with the Peoples Democratic Party’s claim that President Buhari was dictatorial.
The APC chieftain said, “I disagree with that. He was elected on a platform of democracy, he has adhered to rule of law so far. What is dictatorship about what he has done? He has helped to stimulate the economy in the various states and that is where the people are. So what is dictatorship?
“And the institutional paralysis had occurred in the country. It is very important for a steady man like the President to really help the nation recover from the paralysis and that is what he is doing. So I don’t see what is dictatorial about that.”
“If they don’t have anything to say, they rather be quiet. They created what is wrong here today and we can’t sweep that under the carpet. There must be rule of law,” he added
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