Tinubu, Saraki end feud?
Strong indications emerged last night that the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki have settled the lingering rift between them. Things went awry between the two strong leaders of the party in 2015 following the stubborn resolve of Saraki to go against the party's directives by refusing to step down from the Senate presidency race.
The APC had rooted for Senator Ahmed Lawan as Senate President, but Saraki due to a lot of maneuverings and brinkmanship sidestepped the party directives by lobbying the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to secure the position of the third most important person in Nigeria. All efforts by the party to enforce its directive proved abortive, a development that many believed may have resulted in the raking up of the legal mess against Saraki over his alleged falsification of assets declaration when he was governor of Kwara State between 2003 and 2007.
Senator Tinubu was widely believed to be behind the actions seen as move to ridicule Saraki in order to humiliate him out of office. It got messier with the recently Samuel Banjoko, a businessman says: "so far so good, he promised us a lot of things that we should expect which we are still expecting. He has only spent one year, things that have not been happening before have started happening. For instance, the revelations by Panama papers leaks which listed other properties owned by the combatants.
It would be recalled that both have openly blasted each other and have avoided each other at public functions, a development that have heightened tension within the party especially between the executive and the Senate.. However, on Monday, things appeared to have changed as both political gladiators agreed to put behind them their differences. It was learnt that both men met shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari hosted federal lawmakers to a luncheon at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The meeting between the two politicians was believed to have been facilitated by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the party's National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun. Saraki and Tinubu reportedly agreed to sheathe their words and work for the progress of the APC. After the meeting, both men were seen sharing jokes and laughing together.
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Tayo Awodiji Ubandoma Of Ilorin Waheed Ibrahim Quareeb Islamic Association National Democratic Congress Abdulkarim Adisa Olatunde Oyeyiola Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa Yetunde Balogun Ahmed Idris Mohammed Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs NAWOJ Fatimoh Lawal Abdulkareem Alabi Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education Kpotum Mohammed Baba Oloyede Ilorin South Kamaldeen Kehinde Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye Yekeen Alabi Jimoh Akani Abdulrazaq Akorede Kwara State Football Association Neuropsychiatric Hospital Yeketi Kwara State Government Kwara Restoration Project Kola Bukoye Ubandawaki Talaka Parapo Oniwasi Agbaye Gobirawa Jawondo Kwara University Of Education Alliance For Democracy Elerinjare Amasa Harrison Osauwagboe Alimi Abdulrazaq Olatomiwa Williams Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq Saliu Shola Taofeek Bareke Shururat Olatinwo Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim Saadu Gbogbo Iwe Roheemat Hammed Iyaloja-General Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita Yakubu Shaaba First Lady Modibbo Kawu Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman Adamu Jemilat-Baki Abubakar Olusola Saraki Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa Bola Tinubu Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao Yunus Lawal April 11 Medinat Folorunsho Salman Iqra Books Alagbado Haliru Yahaya Olatinwo LAK Jimoh Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication Oke-Odo Abubakar Imam Isiaka Gold Osuwa Omoniyi M. Ayinla Kwasu Sa\'adu Salahu

