Lalong blasts Tinubu, asks him to speak out over health claims

Barely a day after an associate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, condemned Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State for interloping on the former, the governor waved off the statement as coming from a proxy.

The governor, through his media adviser, Daniel Manjang, told Daily Trust on phone on Wednesday that Tinubu himself has not come out to prove otherwise that he did not show up to boost the campaign of the Ondo state APC governorship candidate, in Akure because of ill-health.

Lalong, during the Akure rally claimed Tinubu did not show up because he was ill, and travelled for medical check-up, a statement which the APC leader’s associate, Tokunbo Afikuyomi challenged as “incorrect.”

It would be recalled that Afikuyomi on Tuesday explained in a statement that Lalong’s statement embarrassed the APC leader’s associates who travelled with him to the US, and later to Europe as Tinubu was in good health.

But Manjang said Tinubu speaking through a proxy created a “web” too difficult to entangle because we expected him to speak himself, to deny that he did not attend the rally because he was ill.

Daily Trust, November 24

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