BREAKING: Finally, Tinubu Returns From UK

BREAKING: Finally, Tinubu Returns From the UK

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has returned from the United Kingdom. His return was confirmed by one of his spokesmen, Festus Keyamo, through a tweet.

Keyamo tweeted, “The Eagle has landed.”

Similarly, the Special Assistant on Digital Communication to President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, confirmed the development in a tweet.

He tweeted, “Our presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja from London.”

Tinubu spent 12 days in London with various accounts saying he was resting. Some of his aides said he was working and was not on a sickbed.

However, the spokesman of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, (APCPCC), Festus Keyamo, had said the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, is hale and hearty after he spoke with his son, Seyi, on Thursday morning.

Keyamo stated this on Thursday morning on Arise TV’s programme, The Morning Show.

His defence came after being asked whereabouts of Tinubu, who has been out of the country for 12 days, amid rumours that he is ill and receiving treatment in the United Kingdom.

Keyamo responded when asked specifically where his principal was and what was happening, saying, “Let me let the cart out of the bag. I just spoke with Seyi, his son. He told me that daddy is fine, and is sleeping.”

The Minister for State for Labour also explained why the party has not rolled out its campaign drums noting that contrary to reports that the party’s meeting on Wednesday was a stalemate, the PCC is still consulting.

“We are consulting various stakeholders,” he said, adding that “APC is a very large party. It’s like starting a 50-tone truck. It’s bigger than all these small parties moving all over the place.”

The Minister frowned at journalists, saying, “Opinion of journalists is not a barometer by which we judge our affairs here. I won’t accept you quoting that,” when told what the African Editor of The Economist, Jonathan Rosenthal said about Tinubu.

Rosenthal had said, “Oh dear, it is never a good sign in a presidential campaign when a candidate feels the need to prove he is still alive.”

He dismissed that assertion, pointing out that Tinubu is healthy and not ill, adding that the APC candidate will be back in the country in several days.

“No cause for concern. He is not the president to issue statements as for his whereabouts.”

He added that Tinubu is not the president and that his “standard is not as high as the president, who should at every time issue statements as to his whereabouts.”

He likened Tinubu’s situation to Catch-22, saying it’s difficult to explain his situation because whatever he says will become an issue as to why he has been missing.

“We won’t run our campaign for mischief makers. Genuine people should be satisfied when his campaign spokesman says so,” Keyamo contended.

On what the APC will campaign to seek votes, Keyamo said the party will be campaigning on three major things. “We are going to campaign on three things: President Muhammadu Buhari’s Seven and half years record, Tinubu’s record of service in Lagos State as governor and Third, his manifesto.

“The first two, we have in the last few weeks put that out for Nigerians. We have spoken more on record, and we have rolled out a lot of his achievements in Lagos and the records of Buhari.

“We haven’t started our campaign. The INEC timetable for the campaign has come and gone, it’s not compulsory to start on that day.

“The manifesto is ready. Because our candidate is one with a sense of inclusiveness, we have given it to major stakeholders to make input. I also provided input. It will be released when we will Inaugurate our campaign council,” Keyamo stated.

He further explained that the manifesto addresses what Nigerians want to hear, assuring that “Nigerians won’t be disappointed.

“Tinubu has always been ready to rule and has always had a manifesto but because of the dynamics of current issues, microeconomics, he has to tinker with the manifesto,” he added.

When asked why Lagos is rated the second worst city in the world after Damascus in Syria to live in, he dismissed the report for being outdated and taking “statistics of 171 countries.”