The National Leader of All Progress Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has refuted alleged media reports saying that there is cold war between himself and minister of interior, Ogbeni Aregbesola, saying whether cold or hot, there is no war between them.
Asiwaju Tinubu’s media aide, Mr. Tunde Rahman in a statement released on Tuesday 9th June 2020, debunked the rumour, saying that the talk that all political groups within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos were dissolved, leading to speculation that the party leader is in a cold war with former Osun state governor, Ogbeni Aregbesola is not true.
The APC national leader, through his media aide, however, said that the Mandate Group and the Justice Forum, the two most powerful groups, no longer exist. This he said was to promote discipline, harmony and cohesion and engender party supremacy. The APC is one united political family in Lagos, he said.
The communique issued by the party leaders in the state after a meeting on Tuesday continued by saying that:
“Our attention has, however, been drawn to a report in an online newspaper alleging that the GAC’s appropriate and candid resolution had worsened a phantom cold war between Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.
This is a figment of the imagination of the news organization that authored the report. Asiwaju Tinubu remains Ogbeni Aregbesola’s leader. The former governor of Osun State has been unswervingly and wholly committed to the progressive ideology of the Tinubu political family,” the statement said.
“There is no war, cold or hot, between them. There has never been and there will never be. Asiwaju believes in him and he believes in the APC leader.
Our political family remains strong. And we are staying focused in our commitment to building and maintaining a cohesive political party.
The GAC is a very strong body within the APC leadership structure in Lagos. Its resolution is not targeted at any particular individual or collection of individuals.
The resolution was to restate the often-stated position that the only group known to us is APC and not any of the factional groups. It was to renew the commitment to APC and its unity.
Ogbeni Aregbesola is a strong member of the political family. The GAC position does not imply any division within the group. The resolution is well-meaning and should not be misinterpreted.
To do so impulsively as the authors of the report has done is to take the frontier of reporting away from facts to the realm of groundless speculations,” he said.