His supporters had sung in Yoruba, “…Who is Funke Akindele? (she is) an ant in the presence of the father of Lagos (Tinubu),” forcing him to comment on it.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has said that it is an insult to mention the name of the deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Funke Akindele, in his presence.
Tinubu made the comments on Wednesday at a Lagos APC stakeholders’ meeting held at the party’s state secretariat on Acme Road in Ogba.
His supporters had sung in Yoruba, “…Who is Funke Akindele? (she is) an ant in the presence of the father of Lagos (Tinubu),” forcing him to comment on it.
“Don’t even behave as if you remember that name (Funke Akindele),” Tinubu said.
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“It is a big insult, it is an abuse. A fowl wants to enter a house, it is bending down, how tall is it in the first place?”
According to a statement by Gboyega Akosile, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Sanwo-Olu, Tinubu told the gathering that he returned to his political base to meet the Lagos APC family stronger than he left it.
Tinubu passed a vote of confidence on Sanwo-Olu and other party leaders for nurturing the APC political machinery in the state, stressing that the party remained unbeatable in Lagos.