“I Am Back and Better” – Tinubu Says Then Launches Attack on President Jonathan

Former Lagos State Governor and All Progressive Congress, APC, national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu returned to Nigeria Saturday, amidst fanfare after three months of absence.
He had gone for a knee surgery in the United States. The surgery was a success and Tinubu is back. He declared: “I am back and better.”
A grand reception had planned for him at the Onikan Stadium, Lagos Island. He however requested it be cancelled in sympathy with the families who lost their loved ones in the Associated Airline plane crash on Thursday in Lagos.
Well wishers in their hundreds , including party leaders, members of the National Assembly from Lagos State, local government chairmen, friends, party members, market men and women, amidst tight security, thronged the Murtala Muhammed International Airport to receive him.

In his address to the press, Tinubu said he felt good returning back to his homeland after a long while abroad attending to his health.
He commented on the registration of APC as a party, expressing confidence that the registration would pull through even in his absence, assuring that the party is on a mission to save Nigeria and the party remained determined to re-write the political history of governance in Nigeria.
Speaking about the 13-man Advisory Committee for National Conference, NC, set up by the Federal Government, Tinubu wondered why the move came so close to the 2015 elections, saying, “How do you develop the agenda? It’s a diversionary tactic.
”How long have we been talking about this? Why suddenly? Now there is something in political and social history. They say we have Greek gift.
“Two crumbs of poison that will survive the trappings of the onus. Let us first of all ask ourselves some questions, I am yet to consult with my party, but I see a contradiction here.
“I see a diversion here, I see deception here, I see lack of honesty and integrity here, I see a state of a sinking ship that needs no raft any longer; allow it to sink, build a new life, move the nation forward.
“I will consult with the party leaders and we will look at the agenda and develop our own agenda along it.
“But Nigeria is divisive now. Why is this coming a few months before the elections? Can’t you smell a good soup when it is passing. It is left for our party and all of us. I am a democrat.
“This is a president that said it was unnecessary to have a Sovereign National Conference because the sovereignty is in the National Assembly; that was his belief then, now he says it is okay.”