Tinubu not from Lagos, should return to his hometown in Iragbiji in Osun to rest – Shelle, ex-PDP chair
A former chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in Lagos State, Navy Captain Tunji Shelle (rtd) has debunked reports that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in the 2023 election is from Lagos, advising him to return to his hometown in Iragbiji in Osun State and take a deserved rest.
Speaking in an interview with DAILY INDEPENDENT, Shelle, who led the PDP to its best outing in Lagos in the 2015 general elections where the party won eight House of Assembly seats said it is wrong for anyone to describe Tinubu as a Lagosian.
READ ALSO: http://No plan to sell assets to reconstruct burnt Assembly Complex – Kogi govt.
When asked if he would be happy to see Tinubu, a fellow Lagosian, become Nigeria’s president in 2023, Shelle said: “First of all, describing Tinubu as a Lagosian is very wrong. Tinubu is not a Lagosian. You can quote me any day.
“He was not born in Lagos; he didn’t grow up in Lagos. It was the NADECO and Afenifere people that smuggled him in to become the governor of Lagos.
“I know his relations very well in Iragbiji, Osun State. Given his age, he should go back to Iragbiji and take his rest. That is what he deserves now. He should be resting in his hometown.
READ ALSO: http://Senate President bags Award for Parliamentary Excellence
“Secondly, as for becoming president, I choose the kind of people who can lead me. I can never support him. I have my own party, PDP. What will make me vote for somebody from another party, especially somebody I don’t believe in? He has done his tenure as Lagos State governor. Whether good or bad, posterity will judge him.
“After leaving office over 15 years ago, he is still the one collecting revenues in Lagos through his company, Alpha Beta. You can quote me on this. That is morally wrong and unjustifiable. I distanced myself from such people.
“That is the reason I didn’t join the Alliance for Democracy (AD) when I retired from the Navy. There are certain people I cannot work with, especially people I cannot defend their source of wealth.”
