DISOWNED!!! Oba Rilwan Akiolu Was Not An APC Member, He Can’t Speak For APC – Bola Tinubu

Former Lagos state Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu has condemned the statement accredited to the respected Monarch Oba Rilwan Akiolu that Igbo would be drown in the Lagoon if they do not vote for the candidate of the APC Ambode.

Mr. Tinubu, said Akiolu was not a member of the APC and could not speak on behalf of the party. Tinubu, who noted that he was the first Yoruba governor to ever appoint an Igbo commissioner, said the Peoples Democratic Party, having failed to win last week’s presidential elections, had been desperately trying to pull the APC into the Akiolu controversy....

The national leader of the APC who is no doubt the 'DoroBucci' of Lagos state politics reasoned that the coordinator of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, Ifeanyi Ubah, and the PDP leader, Bode George, were only making baseless accusations against the APC.

In his words:

“The Oba is not a politician. His job is to accommodate all political parties whether PDP, APC or SDP. So, what did he (Ubah) go and do at the palace? Is the Oba a politician?

“To you Igbo, don’t we pay your children’s school fees like others? Or is it the palace that pays for it? When we conducted an exam and a spelling competition, an Igbo boy, Ebuka, from Anambra, came first and he became the governor for one day.

“Those that won the competition three times in a row were Igbo. Ebuka was sent to Switzerland computer school and then Obafemi Awolowo University. We did not say he was an Igbo boy and he would not enjoy. He became an executive in Oando and he is now in Canada.

“Another boy, Felix, won and went to Switzerland and OAU. We paid his scholarship; we did not deny him because he is Igbo.”