The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, has denied the knowledge of having any cabal in the Presidential Villa working against the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Adamu alleged that only the mafia could identify the mafia, and since the presidency dismissed something of such, he believed in the presidency.
The Tribune reported that the ruling party’s national chairman said this while reacting to the claim made by the governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai.
In several interviews, El-Rufai alleged that the cabals’ anointed candidates lost to Tinubu during the APC presidential primaries and are plotting against the former governor of Lagos state.
But Adamu, in his reaction, said he was not aware of the cabal at the presidential villa.
He alleged that people make claims when they cannot get things they want or when superior forces defeat them in their quest for something.
The chairman said: “On the issue of the cabal in the Villa, well, I don’t belong to the mafia world, and it takes a mafia man to identify another mafia. I am not one. I am not aware that there is a cabal. I have heard and read about it in the papers, but the Presidency has denied it. I don’t work in the presidency, but I trust the presidency, and I believe very strongly that there is no such thing as a cabal in the presidency.”
“When people try to do a thing and they cannot get their way through or get what they want, then they start associating or attributing that to some imaginary force or interest group stronger than their own”.
The APC national chairman also dismissed media reports of his party’s presidential candidate’s failing health as mere speculation.
He said the APC candidate would not surrender his office to the machination of any group.
“I am just hearing a new terminology, ‘proxy presidency’. Well, you are entitled to your thoughts. I cannot question that, but, Tinubu, once elected will leave up to the expectations of that office to its fullest. That I can assure you.
“Tinubu is younger by 10 years than USA’s Biden. Why can’t we give Tinubu the benefit of the doubt that he can succeed as president?
“Tinubu is not the kind of person who will surrender his office to anybody. I am not aware of any challenge of ill health associated with him. Since 1999, I have seen him exhibit good health. I have not had any occasion seeing him complain about the campaigns or that there were tasks given to him and he complained of tiredness”.
