Obasanjo could have given his message to Buhari without making it public —Tinubu

A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, has reacted to the recent public letter former President Olusegun Obasanjo sent to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Tinubu noted on Friday, that the former head of state could have quietly passed his message to the president, without making it a public affair.
According to him, it was politics, and a conversation of retired military heads of state.

Obasanjo had in the letter tagged a letter bomb by many Nigerians accused Buhari of nepotism and incompetent and advised him not to seek re-election but go home and rest.

But when confronted with questions during his visit to Imo State, Tinubu, who was in the company of former national chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande, told newsmen that Obasanjo was playing politics with the public letter.

He said, “They both had the same background. So, I believe that would have been the conversation of retired military heads of state. They have unfettered access to each other, either through the Council of State or via any other means. He could see the President privately.

“He (Obasanjo) was also his (Buhari) senior in the army. I think Obasanjo was playing politics with the public letter. That is all I see. They also met at the African Union meeting. He has a way of discussing with the President any time he wants.”

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Also commenting on the coalition movement he said, “The appropriate time is not now for response on the Coalition Movement but we are in a democracy, we are in a country that is a signatory to the Charter of the United Nation which guarantees free movement, free association and free speech.”

On his mission to Imo State, Tinubu said, “I am here to see a very good friend of mine, the governor, Owelle Okorocha, who happens to be the chairman of governors of APC states and then pay respect to the gentleman, nationalist, great leader of our generation.”

 

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