Why APC Wanted Lawan As Senate President – Tinubu

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu, yesterday revealed the reason the leadership of the party
preferred Senate Leader Ibrahim Lawan to other contestants in leading
the Senate.

He explained that the senator is a great example of a
very consistent and intellectually resourceful leader the country
needs. He lamented that those he referred to as political prostitutes
denied him of the opportunity to serve Nigeria in that capacity because
of their selfish interest.

Tinubu who was giving a goodwill
message at the Abiola Ajimobi Roundtable held in Ibadan, yesterday,
lauded the Senate Leader for staying consistent in spite of what
happened; stressing that it was one of the qualities that stand him out.

At
the Roundtable with the theme: ‘The Imperative of Building Institutions
for Lasting Legacies’ , the former Lagos State Governor said: “Senator
Lawan, thank you very much. It will come from you as the institution.
You are a great example of a very consistent and intellectually
resourceful leader that we have in this country. We saw in him, these
leadership traits and the qualities we wanted in the Senate President.
We know you are qualified and competent to be, that you would have led
the most important arm of our government more effectively but the
political prostitutes and their robbers and their collaborators denied
you of it because of selfishness and selfish aggrandisement. But instead
of fleeing, you remained constant and consistent, seeing this
institution as a place for truly lawmaking that we the people and you
have remained consistent and constant ever since on a progressive stand.
Thank you.”

While commending Governor Ajimobi for changing the
fortunes of the state in the last seven years, Tinubu said his success
would have been incomplete without a worthy successor. He hailed his
choice of Adebayo Adelabu, who he believes would build on his exploits.

His
words: “To the discussants, we have facilitated this important topic,
it is all about you as a thinker and a doer and that is what Nigerians
need all over – thinking and doing. The capacity to pick the right kind
of people to think out the need for our society; that institution that
you represent, translate it to vision and be able to do it. Unless that
you have the rare combination of thinking and doing you cannot succeed
as a leader and that is what you have done for Oyo State.