South West APC meeting: Akande explains absence of Tinubu, Adewole, Adeosun, Fashola

FORMER Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande has explained that National Leader of the party, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s absence at the ongoing South West APC Stakeholders’ meeting in Ibadan is due to a slight illness he developed this morning.

Akande stated that Tinubu had put in place all travel arrangements to be at the Ibadan meeting before the development came up.

“Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu arrived yesterday morning from the UK to attend this meeting and put a helicopter online to arrive in Ibadan this afternoon, but took a bit ill,” Akande said.

Media Aide to Tinubu, Tunde Rahman corroborated this development stating that Tinubu did not want to risk traveling with stomach upset hence his decision to stay at his Lagos home.

Rahman assured that Tinubu was in support of the meeting and would attend subsequent meetings.

“He didn’t want to risk traveling with stomach upset. He doesn’t have any problem attending the meeting. He would have been here. There will be other meetings which he will surely attend,” Rahman said.

Akande also explained that Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun; Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole and Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola excused themselves from the meeting due to a national assignment.