National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has refuted claims of a rift between him and the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, insisting that he remained Aregbesola’s leader.
Tinubu, in a statement by his media adviser, Tunde Rahman, stated that ‘there is no war, cold or hot, between us.”
Tinubu’s insistence that all was well between him and Aregbesola came as the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), the highest decision-making body within the APC in Lagos, on Tuesday passed a resolution calling for the disbandment of all factional groups within the party.
The move according to some reports worsened the said cold war between Tinubu and Aregbesola.
However, Tinubu, maintained that there had never been and there would never be any form of misunderstanding between the two of them following the dissolution of the groups.
The statement read in part: “Today, the Governor’s Advisory Council, the highest decision-making body within the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, passed a resolution calling for the disbandment of all factional groups within the party.
“This was to promote discipline, harmony and cohesion and engender party supremacy. The APC is one united political family in Lagos. I remain Ogbeni Aregbesola’s leader.
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“Our political family remains strong. The GAC is a very strong body within the APC leadership structure in Lagos.
“And we are staying focused in our commitment to building and maintaining a cohesive political party.
“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. The GAC position does not imply any division within the group.
“The resolution is well-meaning and should not be misinterpreted. It was to renew the commitment to APC and its unity.
“Ogbeni Aregbesola is a strong member of the political family.”
Tinubu expressed disappointment with the claims of a cold war between himself and Aregbesola adding that to do so impulsively as the authors of the report had done was to take the frontier of reporting away from facts to the realm of groundless speculations.
