National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, may be under serious pressure to forgo his presidential ambition.
A party source, at the weekend, disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari had, last week, sent some party leaders to convince Asiwaju Tinubu to step down in the interest of the party.
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It was gathered that the leading aspirant was enraged with the message and told the emissaries from the President why he should send them when he could have called or invited him for such discussion.
The source said, “Asiwaju was very angry when they delivered the message. To him, if President Buhari has any reason why he did not want to support him for the ticket, there is nothing wrong for the President to call him and discuss it instead of working round to block his chances.”
The source said the position of the President and some people around him might have angered Tinubu during his meeting with party delegates, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, last Thursday.
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It was also discovered that a meeting of party leaders convened, on Saturday, in Abuja, failed to convince Tinubu to step down even when it was said that there are plans to provide him with a soft landing by his position as the party’s National Leader.
A source said, “A meeting was held, on Saturday night, and part of the agenda was to convince Tinubu to step down but we could not achieve it.
“A meeting was held by 3p.m yesterday, and there was no result, but another meeting will hold on Sunday night to prune down the number of aspirants and particularly, to convince Tinubu not to dare the President.”
