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2023: No rift between Tinubu, Buhari – group

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5 years ago

March 6, 2022

The Tinubu Media Support Group has described as malicious certain news item syndicated in a number of blogs that a purported feud between Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari over his 2023 presidential ambition.

The group in a statement stated that the insinuated “rift” between President Buhari and Asíwájú only exists in the fertile imagination of the mercenary bloggers and their paymasters.

“Discerning readers could not have missed a salacious news item syndicated in a number of blogs operated by supposed “professional journalists” on Saturday (March 5, 2022) with a rather misleading headline “Newspaper owned by Tinubu attacks Buhari” over 2023.

“This pre-conceived report anchored on an opinion article written by a writer and published in The Nation Newspaper way back in 2017 is nothing but a poor hatchet job sponsored by some frustrated politicians jittery at the steadily rising approval rating of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the countdown to APC primaries begin and, by God’s grace, the 2023 presidential polls.

“They simply excavated an opinion article written in 2017 by an independent contributor to The Nation (a newspaper where Asiwaju has interest) and laughably presented it as an “editorial” published in 2023. What desperation! How can an opinion article written by someone in 2017 represent the editorial position of The Nation in 2023? Haba !!

“One, the article was published five years ago. These hatchet writers are now drawing inference from a 2017 article to frame their phantom rift between President Buhari and Asíwájú Tinubu.

“Two, this 2017 article is the opinion of the writer and not that of the newspaper now being mentioned. So how can anyone who underwent any training in journalism equate the opinion of an independent writer to that of a newspaper?

The group therefore urged people to disregard totally because it lacked foundation in its entirety.