The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has described former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and ex-Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal as impostors.<\/p>\n
Tinubu was reacting to reports of a meeting convened by Dogara at the weekend with some Northern Muslim groups to adopt one of the opposition presidential candidates in a bid to defeat APC\u2019s same-faith ticket.<\/p>\n
He said the former Speaker was no longer a member of APC, hence couldn\u2019t speak for any group of APC members.<\/p>\n
Speaking through the Director of Media and Publicity at the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Bayo Onanuga, the APC presidential candidate said Dogara was not a member of the APC.<\/p>\n
A statement by Onanuga reads: \u201cDogara has apparently lost his mind since he could not realise his self-imposed ambition to be on the presidential ticket of APC.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council is therefore not surprised by media reports about a meeting of some so-called Northern Christian leaders, who claimed to be members of our All Progressives Congress that were championed by Dogara and his ilks. The claim was totally fraudulent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to assure Dogara and his co-travellers fanning hate campaign against Tinubu and his running mate, that they will fail spectacularly at the polls.<\/p>\n
\u201cTinubu and Shettima are going into this campaign with clear objectives to engage Nigerians across the socio-economic brackets on policy actions that will make their lives better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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