Tinubu is the Pillar of Our Party, Not Under Watch – Presidency

Attempts by Orji Uzor Kalu to use his newspaper, The SUN, to cause a rift between Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari to favour Bukola Saraki has failed, we gathered.

The Presidency has described as baseless, a report suggesting that APC national leader, Bola Tinubu is under security watch over an alleged plot against President Buhari.

In a statement by the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the presidency advised Nigerians to ignore the said report, which it described as totally false and baseless.

Noting that the report was a false and sensational, Buhari who described Tinubu as a pillar of the ruling party, APC, emphasised that the presidency wished “to confirm without any equivocation that the Asiwaju (Tinubu) is not of any particular interest to any arm of the security services.”

“The relationship between him and the president can not be better than it is at the moment.”

Buhari's spokesman further said, “According to the perverted logic of the newspaper, the respected leader of the APC is into a plot against the leader of the country. The Presidency is unaware of any such plots against the president.

“I got on the phone a short while ago with General Babagana Munguno, the National Security Adviser (NSA) and the Director General of the SSS, Lawal Daura who both dismissed the published reports as acts of pure mischief. They are not aware of Asiwaju (Tinubu) being on any kind of watch.

“It would appear that a competition is on between two or three newspaper establishments on how best to breach the excellent relationship between the pillars of our party and government. So far, they have not made a headway and there is no indication that they will succeed in the future.

“It suffices to say that such reports, written without fairness and balance, can only take away from whatever is left of the credibility of these newspapers. The general public is hereby advised to ignore them.”