“When we fought military, Tinubu was abroad drinking cognac” – PDP Chieftain

A chieftain of the People Democratic Party, Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has debunked claims that President Bola Tinubu was an integral part of the system that fought the Nigerian Military regime.

Olawepo-Hashim who appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Tinubu of being responsible for the crisis rocking the opposition parties in the country.

According to him, once an individual with substantial political standing joins any of the opposition parties, the president and the ruling party would create factions to destabilise the platform’s activity

His words, “Not just the PDP, Labour Party, ADC, every party; Adeleke went to the Accord Party and the next day they gave him another faction. Then he had to fight from Court to court for his ambition.

“Anywhere you go to, if you’re a person of substance, the APC will give you a faction,” Olawepo-Hashim said.

Also disputing the claim that members and leaders of the PDP are lazy as oppositions, Olawepo-Hashim said President Tinubu was abroad in the heat of the fight to end the military regime in the country.

“Let me cast you back to the history of the PDP, when we fought the military, President Bola Tinubu was one of those drinking cognac abroad.

“He was not here the day Abacha died, I was in Fort IBB with some people as emissaries of the G34 and the civil society group that confronted Abacha.

“I was in Fort IBB, they were moving tanks; we were civilians negotiating a new republic. Alhaji Rimi, one of the founders of the PDP, was in prison in Ilorin. Chief Solomon Lar, who took the letter of the G-34 for Abacha not to succeed himself; he took it by hand not by courier to the lion’s den. So those were lazy people? I am still a member of the PDP,” Olawepo-Hashim added.