Expdonaloaded News; Tinubu, Akande visit Buhari

Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asi­waju Bola Tinubu has denied any power tussle over who becames chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT). Tinubu, in company with former interim national chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande, told State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, that it a mere rumour as the party was not even thinking of power struggle, as its main concern was to provide a structure that would help the President succeed. “Don’t listen to rumours, there is no struggle.
Our par­ty is not even looking at the direction of power struggle or anything of such. The support structure is to encourage and support the President, as you have heard from Chief Bisi Akande, to help him institutionalise his goal, prin­ciple and vision for a new Nigeria,” Tinubu said. On the criticism that has trailed the delay in the min­isterial list, the APC leader said: “There is pitfall in rush­ing, quick fix, depending upon the depth of the rot. And that rush can cascade into mistakes of unimaginable magnitude. There is equally glory and recovery in slow­ness, when you have a slow fix of a bad foundation. So to me, I would rather take the one that will last the country and endeavour for a longer period of time than the rush hour shopping.” On the rumour that he was in the presidential villa with a list of names for ministerial appointment, he replied: “What can I do about that? They have the right to specu­late, they have the right to their lies and I have the right to debunk.” Akande on his part told newsmen that the reason they were in the Villa was to find out how the party can be of help for Buhari to succeed. He said the two-hour meeting with the President was all about the rot, piles of rots upon rots he inherited from the PDP government.