2023: Bode George Calls Tinubu A Liar

By Akinwale Kasali

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Chieftain and former PDP Deputy National Chairman, Bode George has taken a swipe at the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, referring to him as a liar.

George, an elder statesman described Tinubu as ‘a bundle of lies’ while speaking on Channels Television.

The former Nigeria Port Authority, NPA, boss said: “Tinubu did nothing to alleviate the pains of residents of Lagos State despite serving as a governor for two terms.”

“I absolutely have no qualms, no quarrel with Tinubu, but all I know is that everything he has said he was or his name is this or his school is that it’s a bundle of lies.”

“I’m a bonafide Lagosian, we knew what Lagos was like, and Lagos remains the commercial nerve centre, not only in Nigeria but in the whole of West Africa. What has this fellow done to us?”

“I have asked a very simple question and none of them has been able to answer it: who owns the Alpha Beta company?”

“How much has the Alpha Beta company stolen from the coffers of our treasury in Lagos state? What has he done to alleviate the pains of the people of the state?”

George has never hidden his disdain for the Presidential Aspiration of Tinubu.

He had, at a time on Channels Television, during Seun Okonbaloye’s Programme, Politics Today, said that Tinubu had completely taken over the resources of Lagos State.

He, however, stressed that he has nothing personal against the APC national leader.

George said the former Governor of Lagos State should allow power to change hands because he has been in charge for too long.

The PDP chieftain had said: “He has completely annexed the resources of my State.

“I have absolutely no personal grudge against Tinubu. What I have against him is the plundering of the finances of the State.

“Which country will have the Internal Revenue Service and will now set up a company solely owned by him and his cronies, collecting the taxes of the people on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service, how? This doesn’t make any sense.

“This fellow has plundered and mismanaged the finances of this State to a stupor that calls for attention.”

It would be recalled that former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, Wednesday, labeled George irrelevant and inconsequential to the Presidential aspirations of Tinubu.

He reasoned on his Social Media handle: Since Tinubu  visited former President, Olusegun Obasanjo at his Penthouse at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State, to consult him,  of what relevance is Bode George?