Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association tells Tinubu that Buhari is taking him for granted

MEMBERS of the Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association (YYSA) have warned All progressives Congress (APC) leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu against supporting President Muhammadu Buhari in next year's elections because he has been taken for granted.

 

In February next year, Nigeria goes to the polls to elect a president, 30 state governors, members of the National Assembly and all the members of the 36 state houses of assembly. President Buhari is standing as the APC's presidential candidate and will face former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who will be running as the candidate of the main opposition the Peoples democratic party (PDP).

 

However, the YYSA, a group of Yoruba youths said it had become obvious that the APC and President Buhari do not value the contributions of Asiwaju Tinubu towards the party and the emergence of the president in 2015. YYSA president Olalekan Hammed, said the position of former president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo that Asiwaju Tinubu did not hold any post within the APC was justifiable, saying President Buhari had written the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) to state that he was the party's national leader.

 

Mr Hammed said: “The fact that President Muhammadu Buhari deliberately wrote Inec to affirm his position as the APC national leader vindicates the former president Obasanjo who had sometime ago challenged the former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to state his role in the APC as the national leader of the party. Constitutionally, the APC has no reasonable provision for him in the party and he has been used and dumped.

 

“It would have been better and respectable, provided Mr Buhari did not write to Inec or talk about the issue but the letter he wrote to the electoral umpire to attest that he is the party’s national leader was aimed at ridiculing Tinubu. Yoruba people understand body language more than any other tribe in Nigeria, so there is no sense in staying with people who do not appreciate your presence or feel your impact.

 

"The YYSA implores Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to think twice before supporting Buhari’s re-election bid. There is no difference between someone who steals your property and someone who shows no gratitude for all the favours rendered to him.”

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