Yes, Tinubu Will Be Punished For Insulting Buhari – APC Chairman, Adamu

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu may be sanctioned by the party for publicly insulting President Muhammadu Buhari at his campaign event in Abeokuta last Thursday, the national chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu has said.

Speaking in an interview in Abuja on Saturday he said that Tinubu went to far in riducling the office of the president.

He also disclosed that the party had not disqualified anyone from the presidential primaries as had been reported following the submission of the report of the screening committee.

Adamu who dismissed the retraction offered by the Tinubu campaign over the alleged insult on Buhari as half-hearted said:

“He went as far as saying how Gen. Muhammadu Buhari went to him, citing instances of even prostrating in tears begging him to endorse him and to support him for the presidency. He claimed Buhari went to him.

“His utterances are very, very insulting. It is very, very unbecoming for a person of that standing to do what he did to the sitting president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the President produced by the votes of the APC. Though he is the president, he belongs to everybody.

“It is amazing how a fellow APC person would make that kind of comment in that kind of circumstances about the president. We take exception to this. It has shown that he does not show any appreciable level of respect for the office of Mr President.

“Therefore we want to make it public that we are saddened by what we saw in the video, in that reportage and we condemn it in the strongest of terms. We do hope that he would never say that kind of again, particularly of the APC extraction to make such kinds of comments.

“Yes, yesterday we saw some parts of a retraction but that effort is not adequate. It is not sincere. It is not in-depth enough. It doesn’t wipe off the impression that that event has left in our minds”.

Asked whether Tinubu would be punished, he said: “At the time this event took place, the screening committee had not presented its report to us at all and that means no one was trying to suggest that anybody was under any threat. So there was no justification for the time that this thing happened.

“This morning we saw some traces of withdrawal of those statements. You see, these are statements that buttress his intention of actual action. Yes, we can’t say we refuse not seeing it in the papers. It happened. He said he has the greatest respect for the president. You see, in Hausa there is a proverb that once you take hold of any amount of grass from a thatched house and you pulled it off from the roof, you can’t replace the same number of grass. What is out is out. What he did say was not an apology. It is just like trying to retract and you say I didn’t mean this. It is a problem of misinterpretation. It is not a regret.

“If there is a need to penalize any member of the party not just Bola Tinubu, anybody, we will bring him to the party’s book, anybody, as we watch events as they unfold”.

Adamu also said that the party would not be using statutory delegates since the matter was still in court.

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