Northern Coalition Attacks Tinubu… Accuses Him Of Misleading Buhari

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has berated the All
Progressives Congress (APC) National Lleader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu for allegedly misleading President Muhammadu Buhari.

In the statement signed by its spokesman, Abdulazeez Suleiman,
the Arewa coalition accused Tinubu of political double-speak
regarding the unity of the country, insisting that his actions
betray his utterances.

It noted that it was compelled to react to the inaccuracies in
the news reports credited to him with the title: “Let’s work for
growth not separation.”

Effort to get the former Lagos governor’s reaction failed. When
contacted, his spokesman, Tunde Rahman promised to study the
statement and react according, but until press time, he did not get
back to the reporter.

According to the CNG: “The comments by Tinubu only succeeded in
further exposing his hypocrisy and obsession with double standards
with regard to his role in causing the present high political
polarization in Nigeria and the deterioration of trust in the
current administration.

“While we do not envy Asiwaju his privilege to believe he can
push his ambition for the presidency at all costs, we nevertheless
find it ridiculous that he still thinks he can can get away with
this latest rap on national growth after having stood against it
for quite long.

“As we join the general uproar and condemnation that trailed the
statement by Tinubu, we wish to ask him to sincerely answer the
following simple questions:

“Tinubu should explain the absence of his sense of cohesion
when, in 2015, the Oba of Lagos, whose affinity to Tinubu is no
secret, ordered that all Igbos must vote Tinubu’s APC or leave the
state.

“Tinubu’s concern for national growth was certainly missing at
the inception of this administration when he vehemently stood
against the formation of an inclusive government against the advice
of the leadership of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) for Buhari to
appoint an Igbo as Secretary to the federal government.

“We are aware that Tinubu solely misled President Buhari against
that patriotic advice by insisting that the Igbo did not vote him
and that it was not safe for another Igbo to succeed the office
which was immediately vacated by a kinsman.

“He made the President appoint his stooge, Babachir Lawal who
turned out to be a national disgrace. This much was confirmed by
Lawal himself when he said he owed his appointment to Tinubu and to
some extent, Bisi Akande. And after the scandalous fall of Lawal,
Tinubu again prevailed against an Igbo successor and imposed
another stooge, Boss Mustapha.

“Tinubu should explain where his conscience for nationhood was
during the February 2019 elections when after disenfranchising the
Igbo community in Lagos, militant OPC youth backed by leaders of
the South West violently attacked Igbo communities and their
businesses.

“He should explain his democratic claims and desire for growth
in relation to his unilateral insistence on denying a sitting
Governor Ambode of Lagos state the right to seek reelection in
2019.

“This he did despite personal efforts by President Buhari to
show him that Ambode was a performing, hardworking governor. The
President even sent a committee of seven governors picked across
states to persuade Tinubu but he stood his ground merely for his
personal interest.

“Tinubu’s sense of nationalism also came to question with his
silence at the time his people in the South West deployed every
unconventional means to fight the presidency, the entire Fulani and
the larger North over the Ruga initiative of the federal
government.

“His concern for national integration must have gone to sleep
when the Afenifere, an organization he nourishes, ordered the
Fulani out of the Southwest, and when Gani Adams threatened to
mobilize two million Yoruba warriors against the Fulani in the
Southwest.

“Where was Tinubu’s sense of patriotism when his stooge Omoyele
Sowore recently masterminded and actually called for a violent
protest with the ultimate aim of overthrowing a democratically
elected government in which he, Tinubu is singularly the major
beneficiary?

“How does Tinubu explain his conspiratorial silence when Wole
Soyinka, Falana and other rabble-rousers on his payroll openly
supported and backed the mastermind of the overthrow attempt?

“Lastly we task Tinubu to justify his claim to nationalism and
growth against the four-year protracted war he waged against Bukola
Saraki and Amaechi simply because they opposed the emergence of a
Muslim-Muslim ticket in the buildup to the 2015 elections.

“In conclusion, we categorically state that unless and until
Tinubu is able to satisfactorily provide answers to these
questions, no Nigerian, certainly no northerner would take his call
for focus on national growth seriously.”

The group said Tinubu should realise that though he might have
succeeded in fooling some Nigerians sometimes in the past, he
should not expect that he could fool anybody anymore.

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