The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has revealed ongoing reconciliation efforts between him and All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, ahead of the 2023 general elections, saying, however, that some politicians are not happy with the development and working against the party’s unification for their personal interests.
The media aide to the Interior Minister, Mr Sola Fasure, stated this in a statement made available to TheIdeal on Wednesday while the statement was titled, “Jittery Politicians Scared of Full Reconciliation.’
Fasure also stated that it is regrettable that the politicians have continued to spread rumours that Aregbesola was attacking or had previously attacked Tinubu in order to discredit him.
The statement reads in part, “The attention of The Media Office of the Minister of Interior has been drawn to social media news ascribing false statements to Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, as concerns an attack on the person of the presidential candidate of our Party, The All Progressives Congress , Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This is FAKE news and simply not True.
“A pattern has clearly emerged of sinister and coordinated effort to frustrate the reconciliatory moves being championed by notable stakeholders within and beyond our party to rally all necessary factors for the success of our Party at the February 2023 Presidential Election.
“Just last week, jittery politicians who are authors of this malicious manuscript, paid a handful of rent-a-crowd comedians to react to a non-existent ‘attack’ and regurgitate the storyline again, with the intention to frustrate a series of reconciliation steps for their selfish interest.
“We urge well-meaning Nigerians to be wary of the evil machinations of this cult of fifth columnists, whose sole business is to cause disaffection, manufacture distractions and sow discord within the APC and the progressive fold”.
