President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) must not allow themselves to be pushed into betraying the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Yoruba Welfare Group (YWG), has said.
The National President of the Group, Comrade Adegoke Alawuje, who stated this in a chat with newsmen, said neither the party nor the President must turn his back to the 2023 ambition of Tinubu in view of his immense sacrifices to the president and the party.
He said doing that will fuel the mutual distrust between the North and the South.
Alawuje stressed that such betrayal will also justify the ‘tribalists’ posture’ of those who have consistently warned and blamed Tinubu for midwifing the APC and the eventual victory of the APC.
He said in addition to the support of the APC and the President, it is also expedient for Northerners to stand with Asiwaju Tinubu more than any other region in Nigeria,
Alawuje said Tinubu won many enemies for no reasons other than supporting Buhari and APC in 2015 and 2019.
He said, “The reason some are working day and night to bring down Tinubu is because he did not only stand by APC in 2015, he also stood with Buhari in 2019, despite the unjust treatment and neglect he experienced from the party and the presidency at the time.”
“YWG is therefore not only calling on APC to support Tinubu 2023 project, it must also shun tribal, religious, regional, and parochial interests to support his ambition. That is the only way of ensuring the party is saved from distrust and acrimony that could spell its doom”.
Alawuje insisted that Tinubu is a trusted and reliable leader who determined the pattern of vote of the Southwest in 2015 and 2019, saying he must not be subjected to the “current unjust attacks by those who see him as a threat to their personal ambition.”
He warned that Tinubu has massive following and admirers across all the regions and betraying him will naturally lead to the betrayal of his large followers by the APC.
