My Husband Was 'Trashed' After Helping APC, Buhari Win 2015 Polls - Tinubu's Wife, Remi

Posted by Odinaka on Tue 20th Feb, 2018 - tori.ng

As the APC national leader Bola Tinubu, begins to reconcile warring sides in the ruling party, his wife, Remi Tinubu, has decried that her husband was 'trashed' after the party won the 2015 elections.

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Remi Tinubu

While speaking on Monday when she was featured on "Your View", a breakfast show of Television Continental (TVC), Senator Oluremi Tinubu, wife of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, alleged that her husband was sidelined despite his efforts towards ensuring that APC won the 2015 presidential elections.

According to PUNCH Newspaper, the lawmaker representing Lagos Central Senatorial District at the Senate, who decried that her husband was “trashed” after the party won, disclosed that she was forced to discourage her husband from his continued loyalty to the Presidency and the APC, adding that the party leader was always harping on the development of the country.

She said, “He was campaigning, I did too. We were running three campaigns in my house. And for him to be trashed like that? But I saw somebody who has love for this country. I hate to speak because when I stand in the front of God, I don’t want, because of this man, go to hell.

“Occasionally, I would chip in and I would say, ‘You’re still helping out? Why are you helping out?’ He would say, ‘This country matters to me more.’”

Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari, had lamented that those who worked for her husband to get into power had been sidelined in the scheme of things under the current administration.

Mrs. Tinubu however pointed out that despite that the Buhari-led administration was now under massive criticisms, the President remained “the candidate to beat” in the forthcoming poll.

She said, “Change takes only one person to champion. And you need leadership. For me, Buhari is still the candidate to beat. Leadership is inspirational. Management is technical. If you have all the degrees and you’re smart and savvy, it is not about leadership. How many people are you inspiring?

“And Buhari, how many years has he been there? I am not campaigning for him. I am not; because I have looked at the dynamics; the poor still trust him. I will tell you: when it comes to integrity, Buhari has it. I don’t know about now.”