The All Progressives Congress, APC, National Leader, Bola Tinubu, has been advised by his camp to look for another political party to run for the 2023 Presidency, amid some lingering crisis in the ruling party,
Tinubu’s camp gave the advice due to the latest frequent visits by former President Goodluck Jonathan to the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, in Abuja, in recent weeks, to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari, deeming the visits political, and concerning the 2023 Presidential election.
During Jonathan’s visit to the Villa, on December 30, 2021, no official statement was issued by the Presidency on the agenda of the meeting between himself and President Buhari.
However, after yesterday’s meeting by the former President, a Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina, in a statement, said that President Buhari received briefing from him, on the political developments in the Republic of Mali, where he is a Representative for ECOWAS.
He stated that a special meeting of the ECOWAS, which holds in Ghana, on Sunday, to deliberate on the political situation in Mali, was the subject of the parley between the Head of the ECOWAS Mediation Team, former President Jonathan, and President Buhari.
However, a Chieftain of the APC and the National Coordinator of the Tinubu 2023 Non-Negotiable, TNN, Kunle Okunola, said that he is not convinced that Jonathan visited the Villa because of the Mali issue, adding that, the visits are part of the conspiracy to make Jonathan the 2023 Consensus Presidential Candidate of the APC.
According to him, that explained why President Buhari insisted on Consensus Candidate to be provided for in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill.
He further accused President Buhari of doing the biddings of the “colonial masters”.
His words: “Jonathan is the colonial masters’ Candidate, and Buhari cannot say no, and that is why he was insisting on consensus, because Jonathan cannot ridicule himself by going into primary with Tinubu or any other Candidate. So, APC is bringing Jonathan, no doubt about it.”
Okunola alleged that the delay in conducting the National Convention of the APC, is part of the script being played to make Jonathan the consensus APC flag bearer.
He noted: “Asiwaju has the capacity to search for an alternative platform to save Nigeria.
“We should provide an alternative platform, for Nigeria not to go into flame.”
He added that it is unfortunate that Tinubu “had been caught in this situation for long”.
According to him, it is high time Tinubu began to “look inward, and having a handshake across Nigeria, if he is indeed ready to lead the country, and look beyond APC”.