Former Governor of Lagos State and 2023 Presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reiterated that his journey to the United Kingdom was not for medical reasons as was widely speculated.
Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that the national leader of the ruling party returned to Nigeria on Sunday after 10 days in the UK.
A terse statement on his social media accounts Monday morning informed the public that the trip was about 2023 election.
It said the presidential aspirant had ‘consultations with Nigerians and other stakeholders in the diaspora’.
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‘Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu promised to continue consultations in line with his intention to seek the office of The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,’ it added.
A cross-section of Nigerians are worried about Tinubu’s foreign trips that have become frequent in recent years.
Last year, the politician was in London for nearly three months on health grounds. President Muhammadu Buhari and several others visited him.
Tinubu underwent a surgery on his right knee and ‘rigorous post-surgery physiotherapy’, according to his media office.
Meanwhile, apresidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has declared that the national leader of the party and former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, will not be an obstacle to him in his bid to become the next president of Nigeria.
He stated this on Friday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York, where he spoke about his plans for the country if elected to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.
When quizzed on whether he sees the former governor as a threat, Kalu answered, ‘No! and I am not a threat to his ambition. By the time we meet in Eagles Square, this issue will be settled.
‘Mind you, politics is not only about money; it is about the people you are going to govern … the people of the north-west, the people of north-east, the people of north-central, the people of the south-east, the people of the south-west, and the people of south-south, and we have the people. I can move the people and the people are with me.’
Africa Daily News, New York reports that both Kalu and Tinubu are chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and served as governors between 1999 and 2007.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
