Tinubu trying to lure our only governor – LP
The Labour Party (LP) has reacted to the revelation by Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazak of Kwara state on President Bola Tinubu’s decision to offer the opposition parties appointments into boards of government agencies and parastatals.
Abdulrazak, who doubles as the chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), stated this in a communiqué issued to the public.
He said, “Members (of NGF) resolved to commend the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria President, Bola Tinubu for showing leadership by extending the opportunity to governors across party lines, by asking them to nominate competent people from their fold for appointment into boards of parastatals.
In his reaction, Tanko Yakassai, the spokesperson for the LP, said that the offer is an attempt to buy the party’s only governor over.
He said, ‘’… every attempt we see them do is a means to cajole people to believe and legitimize their government. That is the truth about it.’’
‘’Sending letters to state governors is part of the process of legitimizing their governance, which we are resisting. At the moment, LP has only one governor. The belief is that the governor may likely dance to their tune.
‘’But the truth about it is that will the APC tell you they don’t have party people in Abia State that they can nominate? Why must they go through the governor to do so? What they are aiming to do is to indirectly co-opt him into their party. That’s the truth.”
