Ahmed Tinubu Trouble: Osoba Meets IBB

<p><em>Ahmed Tinubu&comma; former Lagos governor’s trouble has necessitated reversal of actions within his camp<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that following the fresh trouble for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his 2023 presidential aspiration&comma; his think tank and core loyalists have detoured to alternative roles to rescue him from going to jail&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Among his core loyalist is Segun Osoba&comma; a former governor of Ogun and top All Progressives Congress&comma; APC stakeholder&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Fresh trouble began for Ahmed Tinubu when a letter written and signed by the new chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission&comma; EFCC&comma; Abdulrasheed Bawa requesting the Code of Conduct Bureau&comma; CCB to furnish it with details of Tinubu’s alleged fraud&comma; was made public&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In the letter dated November 6&comma; 2020&comma; EFCC requested CCB to furnish the commission with the outstanding requested information of Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu&comma; pursuant to Section 38&lpar;1&rpar; and &lpar;2&rpar; of the EFCC Act 2004&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;EFCC official confirmed that the request is sequel to some petitions written against Tinubu since 2018 which Magu had failed to act on&comma; adding that the anti craft agency is in receipt of several petitions against Tinubu including one involving alleged fraud in Alpha Beta Consulting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many public affairs analysts view the development to Aso Rock’s determination to edge out Ahmed Tinubu from the 2023 presidential racial in which he has shown tremendous interest&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;To save the situation&comma; Segun Osoba&comma; who had earlier scheduled an appointment to seek the former military President Ibrahim Babangida’s support in Minna for Ahmed Tinubu presidential support&comma; has adjusted his mission to the Hill Top mansion&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;This time&comma; OpenLife Nigeria gathers that rather than seek IBB’s buy-in into Tinubu’s ambition&comma; he is billed to be in Minna in the next few days to seek his intervention in the Tinubu’s trouble specifically &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;soft landing&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Like I told you before&comma; Osoba will be in Minna in the next few days to plead with IBB to intervene in the Ahmed <strong>Tinubu<&sol;strong> trouble&period; He was supposed to go and seek support for the 2023 presidency for Ahmed Tinubu&period; The private jet that will take him to Minna has been arranged already&period; But that has to wait for now because of Ahmed Tinubu fresh trouble&period; Villa wants to arrest his freedom and he cannot escape it&period; They want to puncture his presidential ambition&period; It is not who is free that will contest election&quest;” our credible source asked rhetorically<&sol;p>&NewLine;