Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, National Leader, All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked reports of a war between himself and Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior.

Tinubu’s media aide, Mr. Tunde Rahman, in a statement on Tuesday, June 9th, 2020, said;

“Our attention has been drawn to a report in an online newspaper alleging that the GAC’s appropriate and candid resolution had worsened a phantom cold war between Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.”

“This is a figment of the imagination of the news organisation that authored the report. Asiwaju Tinubu remains Ogbeni Aregbesola’s leader.”

“The former governor of Osun State has been unswervingly and wholly committed to the progressive ideology of the Tinubu political family.”

“There is no war cold or hot between them. There has never been and there will never be. Asiwaju believes in him and he believes in the APC leader. “Our political family remains strong. And we are staying focused in our commitment to building and maintaining a cohesive political party.”

“The GAC is a very strong body within the APC leadership structure in Lagos. 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. It was to renew the commitment to APC and its unity.”

“The resolution is well-meaning and should not be misinterpreted. To do so impulsively, as the authors of the report has done, is to take the frontier of reporting away from facts to the realm of groundless speculations.”

For those who don’t know, the Mandate Group and the Justice Forum within APC in Lagos were dissolved, leading to speculations that the party leader was in a cold war with the former Osun State governor.

The Mandate Group and the Justice Forum, the two most powerful groups, no longer exist, according to a communique issued by the party leaders in the state after a meeting on Tuesday.