A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has debunked speculations of any ‘cold war’ between him and the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola.
Tinubu, in a statement on Tuesday by his media adviser, Tunde Rahman, said “there is no war, cold or hot, between us.”
The Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), the highest decision-making body within the APC in Lagos, had on Tuesday passed a resolution calling for the disbandment of all factional groups within the party.
The move then generated speculations that the relationship between Tinubu and Aregbesola had worsened.
Tinubu, however, said that there had never been and there would never be any form of misunderstanding between the two of them following the dissolution of the groups.
He said that Aregbesola, a former governor of Osun, had been unswervingly and wholly committed to the progressive ideology of Tinubu’s political family.
“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. I remain Ogbeni Aregbesola’s leader,” Tinubu said.
The former governor of Lagos also said: “Our political family remains strong. The GAC is a very strong body within the APC leadership structure in Lagos.
“And we are staying focused in our commitment to building and maintaining a cohesive political party. “Its resolution is not targeted at any particular individual or collection of individuals.
“The resolution was to restate the often-stated position that the only group known to us is APC and not any of the factional groups. The GAC position does not imply any division within the group.
“The resolution is well-meaning and should not be misinterpreted.”
Tinubu expressed disappointment in the claims, adding that the GAC position does not imply any division within the group.
