BORNO: Weed out divisive elements in APC, Tinubu tells party’s leadership

FORMER Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, on Monday asked the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to hesitate to weed out those working against the unity of the party.

He stated this when he led some party men to Maiduguri to pay condolence visit to the government and the people of Borno State on the massacre of rice farmers by Boko Haram terrorists.

He said, “Any remaining rats and cockroaches should be sprayed out of the party.”

Tinubu, who said he was not in Borno on politics, insisted that the party must live to its symbol, the broom, which signified the importance of unity and work to take out any form of disunity.

After a closed-door meeting with the governor of Borno, Tinubu told reporters that the covenant of the APC with the Nigerian people was to work together in unity to bring about development and progress.

Tinubu insisted that there was unity in the party, noting that anything that would, however ,work contrary to the progress of the party and Nigeria should be weeded out.

Tunubu’s statement may not be unconnected with the expulsion of a former Vice Chairman of the party, Hilliard Eta, who was expelled by the APC last week.

Eta, who is rumoured to be an ardent loyalist of Tinubu, has insisted that his expulsion cannot stand as he is going to challenge it in court.