Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Alake, has said that the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, got involved in politics after amassing wealth in the corporate world.
He noted that Tinubu did not join politics as a pauper.
Alake, who was Commissioner for Information when Tinubu was Governor of Lagos between 1999 and 2007, spoke as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
The journalist-turned-politician attributed Tinubu’s wealth to shrewd investment in stocks of blue chip companies.
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“He made his money well before he got into office. I think what is important to Nigerians, really, is to know that this man was not a pauper before he came into office, like some others,” Alake said.
The campaign spokesman however did not name the companies in which Tinubu has investments, especially in Nigeria.
“What is my business about the company that he owns in Nigeria? If tomorrow you become like Bola Ahmed Tinubu, why should I be bothering about the companies you own as long as it is not proved that you have taken the money of your state or whatever company you work for?
“It is not proven and you are not indicted in any court of law. Why should I now be bothering my head?
“It is an extraneous issue and, like I always say, pandering to the whims and caprices of those who are jealous and extremely envious and suffering from OCH, obsessive-compulsive hatred, of Asiwaju,” Alake said.