National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has denied reports that a cold war is raging between him and his political ally, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, current Minister of Interior.
In a statement by his media office, Tinubu, under whose tenure as Lagos state Governor Aregbesola served as Commissioner and who is acclaimed to have single-handedly made Aregbesola two-time governor of Osun state, insisted that there has never been and will never be war between him and Aregbesola.
Full text of the statement reads:
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.
Our attention has, however, been drawn to a report in an online newspaper alleging that the GAC’s appropriate and candid resolution had worsened a phantom cold war between Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.
This is a figment of the imagination of the news organization that authored the report. Asiwaju Tinubu remains Ogbeni Aregbesola’s leader. The former governor of Osun State has been unswervingly and wholly committed to the progressive ideology of the Tinubu political family.
There is no war, cold or hot, between them. There has never been and there will never be. Asiwaju believes in him and he believes in the APC leader.
