Tinubu plotting against Buhari

The former Lagos state governor and leader of
the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC),
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been put under
surveillance by security agencies for allegedly
conspiring against President Muhammadu
Buhari.
The APC chieftain alongside some members of
the National Assembly are being watched by
security officials over a plot against President
Buhari, based on the president’s decision to
dump several nominees submitted by some
party leaders and political godfathers for
ministerial appointments.

There are speculation that some state
governors, party leaders and political godfathers,
whose nominees were not chosen by Buhari,
have started to coordinate media campaigns and
group protests against the president’s choice of
ministerial nominees.
Saturday Sun reports that when the list was
unveiled last week, many of the party leaders
were upset and left in shock.
It is recalled that rather than pick the choice of
Tinubu in the Southwest, Buhari selected former
gvernors Babatunde Fashola (Lagos) and
Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), both who are allegedly
the estranged political godsons of Tinubu.
Also, the party could not get human rights
activist, Femi Falana (SAN), Prof Pat Utomi and
Dele Alake, Lagos state former commissioners
for information and finance, and Wale Edun,
respectively into Buhari’s list.
Falana had been tipped to emerge as the
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister
of Justice, while Alake was tipped as
Information Minister and Edun as Minister for
Finance.
A close associate of Tinubu, who spoke under
anonymity, said that indeed the APC leader was
badly hurt by the rejection of his ministerial
nominees by Buhari, he would, however, not
have a hand in pulling down “a house he almost
single-handedly built with his efforts and
resources.”
Following the rift over the ministerial list, there
are speculation that an APC leader in the
Southwest who could not push through his
ministerial nominees, longs to leave the country
soon as to enable him coordinate attacks
against the president from his base outside the
country.
According to Saturday Sun, a top official in one
of the nation’s intelligence agencies leading
investigations into the alleged plot, said that a
particular political godfather who has been spear­
heading the campaign to remove Dr Bukola
Saraki, the Senate president, has suddenly
turned round to be reaching out to senators in
Saraki’s camp to mend fences so as to form a
joint force to launch an attack against the
President.
The official pleaded to speak anonymously,
because the investigations were still on going.
He said: “We are following all of these clues and
leads including promises by the same person to
help crush the criminal charges against a leading
Senator. This brand of politics will in no way help
the ruling party and the nation. One man must not
have his way in all cases and in every
arrangement.”
Though the source did not specifically mention
Tinubu in the chat, the APC chieftain, however,
still fits into all the descriptions.
Sources disclose that the presidency is already
bracing up for the emerging development.

It still remains uncertain that the Saraki-led
faction will accept the peace deal being offered
by the APC leader to support the alleged plot
against the President, especially because the
Senate president’s relationship with Buhari in
recent times, tends to be becoming equitable.
Meanwhile, there are indications that the next
batch of ministerial nominees to be named by
President Muhammadu Buhari might not be out
till December 2015.
The reason for this is that many top chieftains
of the APC are unhappy with the president over
the first batch of ministerial nominees that was
recently released.
New Telegraph reports that President Buhari has
made moves to pacify the aggrieved party
chieftains and is expected to meet with them as
to make necessary inputs with regard to the
next batch of prospective ministers.

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