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Akeredolu's Campaign: Tinubu Not Sick

Akeredolu's Campaign: Tinubu Not Sick

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Akeredolu's Campaign: Tinubu Not Sick
Contrary to claim that the All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is ill, which was the reason allegedly responsible for his absence at the campaign rally of Rotimi Akeredolu in Ondo, he is said to be hale and hearty, his ally, Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi said yesterday.


In a statement, the one-time Lagos State commissioner described the claim credited to the Plateau State governor as incorrect.


Afikuyomi said: “I travelled to the United States of America with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to witness the recent U.S. elections. We traversed a number of cities together where we engaged with a number of Nigerians who are genuinely concerned about the state of affairs in our dear country.

Jagaban was in a remarkable state of mental and physical wellness. When we ended our trip, I saw him off to the airport in Chicago from where he headed for Europe again. I still met with him in Europe thereafter.

“It is therefore absolutely incorrect and most embarrassing for anyone to attempt to invent such a laughable reason for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s absence at the rally. The fact that somebody went for medical check-up does not mean he is ill. In the likely event that Asiwaju, like all mortals, was ill at all, I doubt if Mr. Lalong would be the first to know by reason of relationship, proximity and trust.

“Prominent politicians like Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun have been speaking with Jagaban Tinubu.

“Governor Amosun particularly communicated with him a day before the Ondo rally and he can never claim not to have spoken with him. I have also remained in constant touch with Asiwaju Tinubu since my arrival in Nigeria. We speak daily as a matter of fact.

“I have been inundated with calls by friends, associates and other well-meaning Nigerians trying to ascertain the veracity of this ludicrous claim. I hereby ask all friends and lovers of Asiwaju Tinubu to dismiss the claim and know that he is hale and hearty.”

Asiwaju Tinubu, former APC Interim Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande and three governors from the South-west – Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo) and Akinwunmi Ambode (Lagos) – were not at the rally.

Governor Lalong had in his capacity as the Chairman of the Ondo State Governorship Campaign explained that Tinubu was absent at the rally due to ill health.

Lalong was quoted to have told State House Correspondents after visiting President Muhammadu Buhari that, “if a leader was not there and he said he was not there because of ill-health, we have prayed that God will heal him.”
Akeredolu's Campaign: Tinubu Not Sick
Contrary to claim that the All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is ill, which was the reason allegedly responsible for his absence at the campaign rally of Rotimi Akeredolu in Ondo, he is said to be hale and hearty, his ally, Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi said yesterday.


In a statement, the one-time Lagos State commissioner described the claim credited to the Plateau State governor as incorrect.


Afikuyomi said: “I travelled to the United States of America with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to witness the recent U.S. elections. We traversed a number of cities together where we engaged with a number of Nigerians who are genuinely concerned about the state of affairs in our dear country.

Jagaban was in a remarkable state of mental and physical wellness. When we ended our trip, I saw him off to the airport in Chicago from where he headed for Europe again. I still met with him in Europe thereafter.

“It is therefore absolutely incorrect and most embarrassing for anyone to attempt to invent such a laughable reason for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s absence at the rally. The fact that somebody went for medical check-up does not mean he is ill. In the likely event that Asiwaju, like all mortals, was ill at all, I doubt if Mr. Lalong would be the first to know by reason of relationship, proximity and trust.

“Prominent politicians like Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun have been speaking with Jagaban Tinubu.

“Governor Amosun particularly communicated with him a day before the Ondo rally and he can never claim not to have spoken with him. I have also remained in constant touch with Asiwaju Tinubu since my arrival in Nigeria. We speak daily as a matter of fact.

“I have been inundated with calls by friends, associates and other well-meaning Nigerians trying to ascertain the veracity of this ludicrous claim. I hereby ask all friends and lovers of Asiwaju Tinubu to dismiss the claim and know that he is hale and hearty.”

Asiwaju Tinubu, former APC Interim Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande and three governors from the South-west – Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo) and Akinwunmi Ambode (Lagos) – were not at the rally.

Governor Lalong had in his capacity as the Chairman of the Ondo State Governorship Campaign explained that Tinubu was absent at the rally due to ill health.

Lalong was quoted to have told State House Correspondents after visiting President Muhammadu Buhari that, “if a leader was not there and he said he was not there because of ill-health, we have prayed that God will heal him.”
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TINUBU Seriously SICK, Sent Apology Over Akeredolu's Ondo Campaign Absence - Gov. Dalong

TINUBU Seriously SICK, Sent Apology Over Akeredolu's Ondo Campaign Absence - Gov. Dalong

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TINUBU Seriously SICK, Sent Apology Over Akeredolu's Ondo Campaign Absence - Gov. Dalong
Governor Lalong said on Monday, November 21, that the South West All Progressives Congress governors who were absent at the Saturday APC Mega Gubernatorial rally in Akure, Ondo, had sent in their apologies and given cogent reasons for their absence.

He said that the national leader of the party, Tinubu, was not at the rally due to ill-health. Lalong, who is the Chairman of Ondo APC Governorship Campaign Council, made this known to State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. 

The Akure APC rally, which was witnessed by President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President Bukola Saraki, and other prominent members of the party, was attended by only Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun from the South West. The APC governors from Imo, Kano, Kogi, Jigawa, Nasarawa and Edo states attended the rally. 




The governors of Lagos, Oyo and Osun states, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi and Mr. Rauf Aregbosola respectively, as well as former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, were also absent at the event. 

According to The Punch, Governor Lalong, who was accompanied by the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, however, explained that all the prominent APC personalities who failed to attend the rally had offered useful and convincing explanations. 

He said that the national leader of the party, Tinubu, was not at the rally due to ill-health. He said: “We explained their absence. They sent in their apologies. You heard what happened there. “As far as we are concerned, the President, who is the leader of the party, was at the rally. 

The national chairman was also there, as far as we are concerned, everybody was there. “If a leader was not there and he said he was not there because of ill-health, we prayed that God will heal him.” 

Lalong said he was in the Villa to thank the President for attending the Ondo rally. 

He said: “We have come to thank the President for going to Ondo for the grand finale rally.’’ Tinubu, who is being addressed as National leader of the APC, had opposed the emergence of Rotimi Akeredolu as APC governorship candidate in Ondo. 

He, therefore, demanded the resignation of the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, whom he said had derailed from the path of progressives. Odigie-Oyegun, however, dismissed the call, saying the party’s primary election was free and fair. 



TINUBU Seriously SICK, Sent Apology Over Akeredolu's Ondo Campaign Absence - Gov. Dalong
Governor Lalong said on Monday, November 21, that the South West All Progressives Congress governors who were absent at the Saturday APC Mega Gubernatorial rally in Akure, Ondo, had sent in their apologies and given cogent reasons for their absence.

He said that the national leader of the party, Tinubu, was not at the rally due to ill-health. Lalong, who is the Chairman of Ondo APC Governorship Campaign Council, made this known to State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. 

The Akure APC rally, which was witnessed by President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President Bukola Saraki, and other prominent members of the party, was attended by only Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun from the South West. The APC governors from Imo, Kano, Kogi, Jigawa, Nasarawa and Edo states attended the rally. 




The governors of Lagos, Oyo and Osun states, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi and Mr. Rauf Aregbosola respectively, as well as former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, were also absent at the event. 

According to The Punch, Governor Lalong, who was accompanied by the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, however, explained that all the prominent APC personalities who failed to attend the rally had offered useful and convincing explanations. 

He said that the national leader of the party, Tinubu, was not at the rally due to ill-health. He said: “We explained their absence. They sent in their apologies. You heard what happened there. “As far as we are concerned, the President, who is the leader of the party, was at the rally. 

The national chairman was also there, as far as we are concerned, everybody was there. “If a leader was not there and he said he was not there because of ill-health, we prayed that God will heal him.” 

Lalong said he was in the Villa to thank the President for attending the Ondo rally. 

He said: “We have come to thank the President for going to Ondo for the grand finale rally.’’ Tinubu, who is being addressed as National leader of the APC, had opposed the emergence of Rotimi Akeredolu as APC governorship candidate in Ondo. 

He, therefore, demanded the resignation of the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, whom he said had derailed from the path of progressives. Odigie-Oyegun, however, dismissed the call, saying the party’s primary election was free and fair. 


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APC Govs. Tackles Buhari,REJECTS Ambassador-Designate Nominees

APC Govs. Tackles Buhari,REJECTS Ambassador-Designate Nominees

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APC Govs. Tackles Buhari,REJECTS Ambassador-Designate Nominees
All Progressives Congress (APC) governors have taken their protest over ambassadorial appointments to President Muhammadu Buhari.

There have been protests since last week when the names of 46 non-career would-be ambassadors were sent to the Senate for confirmation. Many of the governors complained of not being consulted and knocked the list for being lopsided.

In many of the states, the names sent by the governors were ignored. Besides, ethnic balancing was not considered.


Yesterday’s meeting under the banner of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) was the platform for the governors to express their mind to the President, who urged them to “put their complaint into writing”

Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong told reporters after the meeting at the Villa that the issue was discussed.

He gave the example of his state where one of the nominees, Mrs Pauline Tallen, rejected her nomination.

He said: “Pauline is an astute politician from my state and part of the issue we also raised was on some of the appointments that were made. So all the states that had complaints are going to put them in writing and the President promised he is going to look into them.

“Well, it’s not only about her husband. I think it is the dimension of Plateau politics because I had already complained to Mr. President that appointments should not be concentrated in one zone. And so all these appointments came again from one zone, in that particular zone.

“So the complaints that are coming from our state are not about our personal interest; it is the fact that two ambassadorial appointments are coming from the same zone. That is also my zone.

“We had complained that the next appointment should go to the other zones – the central and the northern zone – and so when that appointment came, the kind of uproar that followed that appointment also necessitated an intervention.

“And I think, as a mature politician, she stepped down and sacrificed that for the people of Plateau.”

The governor said the state was working on Mrs. Tallen’s replacement.

He said a little consultation before the appointments would have resolved the problems.

Said Lalong: “It is not a big issue, but at times a little consultation would have solved that problem because these are issues in the interest of the state. So you can’t have two appointments, very key appointments like that coming from a particular zone that is already overloaded with appointments. All the federal appointments are rom the southern zone, so it would not be fair.

“So it is the issue of fairness now we are approaching Mr. President to consider fairness and appoint people from those areas have no representation.”

Mrs. Tallen, a former deputy governor, in an interview, said: “I hail from the same local government and tribe with Governor Simon Lalong. I turned down the nomination because of balancing of appointments, I don’t think it is right for me to accept the appointment.”

“Secondly, proper consultation was not done. My governor was not consulted because I called him when he was in the United States to ask but he said he was not aware.

“For me, I was consulted and I turned down the appointment even before the announcement was made,” Mrs. Tallen said.

She also cited her husband’s poor health.

“My husband’s ill-health is another reason why I will not accept the appointment,” she said.

APC Govs. Tackles Buhari,REJECTS Ambassador-Designate Nominees
All Progressives Congress (APC) governors have taken their protest over ambassadorial appointments to President Muhammadu Buhari.

There have been protests since last week when the names of 46 non-career would-be ambassadors were sent to the Senate for confirmation. Many of the governors complained of not being consulted and knocked the list for being lopsided.

In many of the states, the names sent by the governors were ignored. Besides, ethnic balancing was not considered.


Yesterday’s meeting under the banner of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) was the platform for the governors to express their mind to the President, who urged them to “put their complaint into writing”

Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong told reporters after the meeting at the Villa that the issue was discussed.

He gave the example of his state where one of the nominees, Mrs Pauline Tallen, rejected her nomination.

He said: “Pauline is an astute politician from my state and part of the issue we also raised was on some of the appointments that were made. So all the states that had complaints are going to put them in writing and the President promised he is going to look into them.

“Well, it’s not only about her husband. I think it is the dimension of Plateau politics because I had already complained to Mr. President that appointments should not be concentrated in one zone. And so all these appointments came again from one zone, in that particular zone.

“So the complaints that are coming from our state are not about our personal interest; it is the fact that two ambassadorial appointments are coming from the same zone. That is also my zone.

“We had complained that the next appointment should go to the other zones – the central and the northern zone – and so when that appointment came, the kind of uproar that followed that appointment also necessitated an intervention.

“And I think, as a mature politician, she stepped down and sacrificed that for the people of Plateau.”

The governor said the state was working on Mrs. Tallen’s replacement.

He said a little consultation before the appointments would have resolved the problems.

Said Lalong: “It is not a big issue, but at times a little consultation would have solved that problem because these are issues in the interest of the state. So you can’t have two appointments, very key appointments like that coming from a particular zone that is already overloaded with appointments. All the federal appointments are rom the southern zone, so it would not be fair.

“So it is the issue of fairness now we are approaching Mr. President to consider fairness and appoint people from those areas have no representation.”

Mrs. Tallen, a former deputy governor, in an interview, said: “I hail from the same local government and tribe with Governor Simon Lalong. I turned down the nomination because of balancing of appointments, I don’t think it is right for me to accept the appointment.”

“Secondly, proper consultation was not done. My governor was not consulted because I called him when he was in the United States to ask but he said he was not aware.

“For me, I was consulted and I turned down the appointment even before the announcement was made,” Mrs. Tallen said.

She also cited her husband’s poor health.

“My husband’s ill-health is another reason why I will not accept the appointment,” she said.

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Female Ambassadorial Nominee REJECTS Buhari's Appointment, The Reason'll Shock You

Female Ambassadorial Nominee REJECTS Buhari's Appointment, The Reason'll Shock You

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Pauline Tallen
A former deputy governor of Plateau, Pauline Tallen, has said that she turned down her ambassadorial nomination in order to be fair to other parts of the state in terms of federal appointments.

Mrs. Tallen, who is also a former Minister of Science and Technology and Labour Party governorship candidate in Plateau in 2011, made this known in Abuja on Monday.


“I hail from the same local government and tribe with Gov. Simon Lalong. I turned down the nomination because of balancing of appointments, I don’t think it is right for me to accept the appointment,” she said.

“Secondly, proper consultation was not done, my governor was not consulted because I called him when he was in United States of America to ask but he said that he was not aware.

“For me, I was consulted and I turned down the appointment even before the announcement was made,” Mrs. Tallen said.
She also cited her husband’s poor health.

“My husband’s ill-health is another reason why I will not accept the appointment,” she said.
Mrs. Tallen, who was nominated last week by President Muhammadu Buhari, alongside 45 others, said the president gave her another option and also assured her that Plateau would not miss its two slots.

The former deputy governor, who appreciated the president for the honour, said that her name was not included on the list of nominees and was surprised when the announcement was made.

Meanwhile Gov. Simon Lalong has described Mrs. Tallen’s decline as an exhibition of political maturity.

“Plateau is always on the front-burner when it comes to politics, that shows her maturity not just in Plateau but as a national figure.
“Once things are not done properly, it is better for a leader and a mother to come out and say that things are not done properly in the interest of the state.

“When I heard the announcement I was very shocked because what happened was without proper consultation,” he told journalists in Abuja.
The governor said his administration was working towards addressing the issue of balancing appointment.

Mr. Lalong said the opposition was already saying that the appointments were lopsided.

He appreciated Mrs. Tallen for her decision, and assured the people that their quota would be filled and he would go further to ensure that distinguished sons and daughters of Plateau get more appointments.

(NAN)

Pauline Tallen
A former deputy governor of Plateau, Pauline Tallen, has said that she turned down her ambassadorial nomination in order to be fair to other parts of the state in terms of federal appointments.

Mrs. Tallen, who is also a former Minister of Science and Technology and Labour Party governorship candidate in Plateau in 2011, made this known in Abuja on Monday.


“I hail from the same local government and tribe with Gov. Simon Lalong. I turned down the nomination because of balancing of appointments, I don’t think it is right for me to accept the appointment,” she said.

“Secondly, proper consultation was not done, my governor was not consulted because I called him when he was in United States of America to ask but he said that he was not aware.

“For me, I was consulted and I turned down the appointment even before the announcement was made,” Mrs. Tallen said.
She also cited her husband’s poor health.

“My husband’s ill-health is another reason why I will not accept the appointment,” she said.
Mrs. Tallen, who was nominated last week by President Muhammadu Buhari, alongside 45 others, said the president gave her another option and also assured her that Plateau would not miss its two slots.

The former deputy governor, who appreciated the president for the honour, said that her name was not included on the list of nominees and was surprised when the announcement was made.

Meanwhile Gov. Simon Lalong has described Mrs. Tallen’s decline as an exhibition of political maturity.

“Plateau is always on the front-burner when it comes to politics, that shows her maturity not just in Plateau but as a national figure.
“Once things are not done properly, it is better for a leader and a mother to come out and say that things are not done properly in the interest of the state.

“When I heard the announcement I was very shocked because what happened was without proper consultation,” he told journalists in Abuja.
The governor said his administration was working towards addressing the issue of balancing appointment.

Mr. Lalong said the opposition was already saying that the appointments were lopsided.

He appreciated Mrs. Tallen for her decision, and assured the people that their quota would be filled and he would go further to ensure that distinguished sons and daughters of Plateau get more appointments.

(NAN)

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