The Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organisation has stated that the comments made by a presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, have been misinterpreted by the media.
Recall that Tinubu, while on a consultation visit to the delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State, had reeled out how he put President Muhammadu Buhari, Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, among others in Nigeria’s political limelight.
In an issued press statement signed by the campaign Director of Media & Communications, Bayo Onanuga, yesterday, the reports of Tinubu’s statement were described as “erroneous, misleading and mischievous”.
The campaign organisation further stated that the comments of the former governor of Lagos State were twisted by the opposition in the APC to discredit their candidate.
Onanuga stated that Tinubu’s comments were in the public domain and were facts which have been analysed for years.
The statement read in part: “The attention of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organisation has been drawn to the erroneous, misleading and mischievous interpretation of his address in Abeokuta, on Thursday.
“The campaign was surprised at the way the opposition and Tinubu’s traducers had turned his statement to give an interpretation Tinubu did not mean and did not say.
“At no time did Tinubu play any ethnic card or denigrate any ethnic group. That is surely out of his character, as Engr. David Babachir Lawal, attested in his viral WhatsApp statement.
“Tinubu’s speech in Abeokuta did not demonstrate any disrespect to President Buhari, for whom he has very high regard, and whose re-election campaign he chaired in 2019.
“Since the video of the speech he delivered in Yoruba hit the social media, varied interpretations have been given to the speech. The Tinubu campaign is not surprised why the opposition in the APC decided to turn and twist the statement. We are least surprised that he is the target of well-calculated and most unkind virulent attacks”.
“The former Lagos governor, a great party man remains the man to beat at the party’s convention on Monday”.
“The campaign organisation hereby appeals to the media to avoid over-sensationalising issues of facts and play its constitutional role of informing the electorate to make informed choices at the presidential primaries”, the statement concluded.
