NATIONAL leader of the
All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, has denied being a role
model to the senator-elect in Ogun State, Buruji Kashamu.
In
a statement signed by Sunday Dare, his media adviser and made available to
newsmen, it said for Kashamu “to liken himself to Bola Tinubu is for a small
rut to call itself a mountain.
“For
Kashamu to call Tinubu a role model is Kashamu’s admission that he does not
know the meaning of the term. There are no grounds for comparison. There is
only contrast. Tinubu has sacrificed years trying to bring democracy to
Nigeria.”
The
statement described the sudden turn in Kashamu’s singing praise of the former
governor of Lagos State as cynical fawning that would not work.
“Kashamu
needs to stop this cynical fawning. It will not work. The days of false
adulation are gone in Nigerian politics. Fake praise singers like Kashamu will
find that their particular craft is no longer in vogue.
“During
this election cycle, their practice has dramatically turned from the way things
are to how things used to be.
Henceforth,
there will be consequences for positions a politician takes and the words they
utter…
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