BEVERLY HILLS, February 13, (THEWILL) – A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has stated that it is crazy for anyone to insinuate that he did not visit President Muhammadu Buhari, who had been on a medical vacation in the United Kingdom.
Pictures surfaced last week showing the ex-governor of Lagos as paying a visit to the President in the company of a former interim chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande.
Reacting to persistent rumours that he did not actually travel to London and that the snapshots are not recent, Tinubu said no one in their right senses would peddle such falseness when there were pictures to prove that he visited Buhari.
He described such claims as the handiwork of mischief-makers, insisting that the visit was undertaken last Thursday.
A statement issued by Tinubu’s media aide, Tunde Rahman, asserted that, “the report about the so-called denial of the visit is the handiwork of mischief-makers. I felt we should not dignify that with a response”.
It continued, “That report beggars belief. Asiwaju Tinubu and Baba Akande were in London. The reason they travelled to the United Kingdom was to see President Buhari.
“And they visited him last Thursday and held discussions with him at the Abuja House in London. After the visit, the President, as a mark of respect, saw off his guests to the door.
“Pictures were taken during and after the visit and released to the media by the Presidency. These pictures were international headlines. How can anybody in his or her right senses be saying there was no such visit? It’s simply crazy! I can’t just get it.”
