Atiku’s Camp Reveals How Tinubu Was Forced Back To Nigeria By APC

The Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organization on Friday gave an insight into what necessitated the untimely arrival of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu into the country on Thursday.

Tinubu was mocked for returning home from the United Kingdom after hearing of a ‘riot act’ from the APC national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.

Speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Friday morning, Atiku’s campaign spokesman, Dr. Daniel Bwala chided his counterpart in the APC campaign council Festus Keyamo over his lack of access to Tinubu.

Giving a background of the events that precipitated the return of Tinubu following his trip to the United Kingdom 13 days ago, Bwala said:

“Two days ago, spokesman for APC was asked where is your principal Tinubu? He said he doesn’t know where he is. But they said you are the spokesman, he said yes and they said as the spokesman, you are supposed to speak for him. He said, honestly I don’t know but what I know is that he will come back.

“Then the next day in the morning, he appeared on your show and he was also interrogated but they were not straightforward with the Nigerian people,” Daniel Bwala said after the return of Tinubu on Friday morning.

“At any given time when you call me, where is Atiku Abubakar, I will tell you where he is. If I call Atiku Abubakar, he answers. If he is busy, he responds one way or the other. But the spokesman of the other party came here and you asked whether he has spoken with the man and he said no, that the son said that papa is sleeping.

“So it is ether there is no confidence in the spokesman himself or that what they are doing is shrouded in secrecy. 

“You know that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu came back because a day to his arrival, the national chairman of the party appeared in the meeting at the campaign headquarters and rather than having a negotiated meeting, he read out a riot act to them about the supremacy of the party and the decision the party will take if they don’t concede to their idea of harmonsing the list and Asiwaju had to return home.

“So, this is the reason why he returned,” the Atiku Campaign spokesman said about the return of Tinubu.

However, it was earlier reported that other APC sources including the Lagos State Women leader, Jumoke Okoya-Thomas had earlier given an assurance that Tinubu would return before Friday.

According to her, Tinubu does not spend more than two weeks at any given time outside the country.