By Bode Olushegun
The National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Monday, asked that any divisive force within the party should be weeded out.
Tinubu, who led some party men to Maiduguri to condole with the government and people of Borno State on recent killing of farmers by Boko Haram at Zabarmari rice field, said “any remaining rats and cockroaches should be msprayed out of the party.”
The party leader, who said he was not in Borno for politics, said the party must live to its symbol, the broom which signifies the importance of unity and work to take out any form of disunity.
Tinubu, who emerged from about an hour closed-door meeting with the governor, said the covenant of APC with the Nigerian people was to work together in unity to bring about development and progress, and that they must work for at all times.
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.
On the purpose of their visit to Borno State, he said it should be seen not “as a condolence visit only, not only as a sympathy visit but as a solidarity and commitment that we must defeat all evil doers.
“To show solidarity to the governor of Borno State, who is a man of courage, brilliance, talent and great character.”
He said that concerted effort should be put in place to get urchins off the street by investing in their future.
He noted that street urchins were easy recruits to violence mongering and those that never meant well for the nation.
Tinubu also called for evolvement of technology to curb the spate of violence across the country.
Responding, Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum commended the former Lagos Governor for the visit.
