A chieftain of the Peoples DemocraticParty (PDP), Bode George has alleged that some elder statemen sent emissaries to him to end the fracas between himself and President Bola Tinubu.
According to him, as an elder, he had no choice than to listen to the pleas and intervention to settle the disagreement between the President and himself.
Ahead of the 2023 general election, George vowed to go on a self exile should Tinubu emerge winner of the polls.
However, after Tinubu was declared winner of the presidential election by INEC, George, a former military governor of Ondo State, said he will wait for the outcome of the court on the petitions filed against Tinubu by the major opposition.
Last week Thursday, the Supreme Court affirmed the victory of President Tinubu.
But the PDP chieftain has disclosed he would no longer be going on self exile as earlier pledged.
While fielding questions on Channel TV interview on Monday, George disclosed that his change of mind was due to the intervention of some elderly people that pacified him to take things easier with Tinubu.
He said, “That I had a quarrel with Bola Tinubu, is not personal. We disagreed on many fundamentals. Political fundamentals and those things are still there. Yes, they had sent emissaries to me that look, let’s tone down, and I accepted it. If elder people came and told you that please ‘Surulere’, in other words, calm down. That’s why. It’s our country. Getting to Abuja is not the problem, managing Nigeria from Abuja is a major concern for us. The issue of insecurity, the issue of religion, the issue of the. Economy, The monetary and fiscal policies of this country.
“You know, when you are in the political field and you have your opposition. There were reasons why I said I will never walk with him and support him because all these issues, you think they have been swept under the carpet, No.
“What Atiku repeated today. I am happy he repeated. He had been a supporter of Bola Tinubu from 1999. No, I haven’t seen what we have seen. And everybody is saying let’s accept it, let’s do this. To me, if you do anything that is not right, don’t sweep it perpetually under the carpet. The seven justices has now decided, this is the man who has won, there is nothing anyone can do now. That is the end of the electoral process.
“The Constitution we are running in this country is very, very defective. It is like a military book of law. That only one person will be deciding all the things for Nigeria. No, even in America the the president of America has his limitations. What about the states? The governors are even equally more powerful on the resources within their state, reduce the powers at the centre and devolve powers to the state.”
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