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The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged those it called agent provocateurs and fifth columnists to stop attacking the ruling party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The party described as reckless the back page article of the Sun Newspaper of September 2, in which the author, Dele Akin Rahman, made some scathing remarks about Tinubu.

In the article, Rahman urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “beware of Tinubu because his moral burden would be a dent on Buhari’s image”. But in a statement by the Lagos spokesman of the party, Joe Igbokwe, the APC said it is illogical that a leader who backed Buhari to get the presidential ticket and weathered the nationwide campaign that ended the 16-year reign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would now turn round to bring down the structure he played a pivotal role in building.

The party accused the author of not only doing a hatchet man’s job, but also doing the bidding of his paymasters who never envisaged that the APC could end the rudderless administration of the PDP.

 The statement reads: “Lagos APC condemns in the strongest terms this calculated attempt to bring Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu down to their miserable level and to judge the consummate leader of men by their horrible and dubious standards. “Before the 2015 Presidential election, our well-respected national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed and President Buhari were subjected to vicious attacks and debilitating assaults just to bring them down but they failed woefully. President Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu ran away with resounding and unprecedented victory on March 28, 2015.”

According to Igbokwe, the author and his paymasters have been angry, frustrated, confused, humiliated, humbled, afraid and disgraced over the loss of the last general elections to the APC. He said: “Politically they have been decimated and relegated to the background, economically their business of stealing government money in billions has been checkmated and blocked and socially they have been ostracized and rejected by Nigerians.

“These fraudsters and morally bankrupt nonentities know that it is impossible for them to get to Asiwaju BAT’s intimidating, illustrious and glorious personality, so they resort to blackmail and character assassination to bring the sage, the colossus and the leader of men to the miserable level. Having failed to stop the Buhari-Tinubu tag that rescued Nigeria from the forces of decay, corruption, and rot, having failed to distract and derail the recovery of Nigeria from the forces of decay, the desperadoes are now trying a sly tactics of instigating Buhari to go after Tinubu for the crimes of wrecking and looting Nigeria blind for 16years when Tinubu’s only feel of power was 8 glorious years he ruled Lagos.

"It is obvious that these dying forces of evil are on a futile effort to parry their 16 years of wreckage and who else to bear the brunt but a Tinubu who has come to personify a living nightmare to the dying PDP.

“Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains a well-respected political figure in Nigeria, Africa and the world today and anybody who thinks in his wildest imagination that a strong and powerful image built for nearly 50 years can be destroyed by the antics of a foolish constituency and men without honour must be jokers."