LeadersNG can confirm that the poll conducted by Cable News Network (CNN), tagged: GPS Challenge on whose country’s President has been missing for months was sponsored by the powerful Lagos politician and National Leader of ruling party, the All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu. (DOWNLOAD VIDEO)
The Cable News Network (CNN) in its GPS challenge anchored by Indian born Fareed Zakaria asked; “Which country head of state has not set foot on his Homeland in over two months”? The options given were A- Saudi Arabia, B-Cuba, C- Nigeria and D – Syria.
Looking at the countries mentioned alongside Nigeria, their Presidents are present in the country to direct the affairs of the state and the answer was obvious.
Sources close to CNN told LeadersNG that the anchor of the program, the GPS Challenge, Fareed Zakaria was contacted by a PR firm linked with David Axerold who consulted for the All Progressive Congress in the 2015 Presidential election in which the party defeated the People’s Democratic Party who had been in power for 16 years. Though there were similar Opinion Piece on Washington Post, but we couldn’t establish as the time of this report whether it was the same APC National Leader that sponsored it.
When contacted, an aide to Tinubu who first denied the allegations, later told LeadersNG that the aim of that poll was to raise the consciousness of Nigerians at home and in diaspora over their Leader who has been away on medical tourism in the United Kingdom.
Our source who pleaded anonymity said, there will be more articles, Opinion pieces and Television appearances in the coming days as both Local and international Columnists have been mobilised to start putting pressure on the ailing president to resign and hand over to his vice who has been president in acting capacity.
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The source further stated that so many people within the ruling party, the All Progressive Congress are disenchanted with the current political situation of the country, but the fear of being prosecuted by the EFCC, the country anti graft agency and the state police, the DSS, would not allow many to say much or do anything about the president’s prolonged absence from office. The proverbial stones and glasshouses comes to mind.
LeadersNG also learned that the Lagos politician who is very revered amongst his kingsmen from the South-West Nigeria and the entire country is very skilled when it comes to reaching to the Press and Civil Society groups, a youth leader in the opposition party, PDP told LeadersNG.
In an unlikely event of the president’s death or resignation, Tinubu’s long term political ally, protege and progeny who was the Attorney-General and commissioner for Justice all through his two terms in office will automatically become president. This is what the Nigerian cabal do not want to see happen as they have found themselves in that condition in 2010 after Late President Yaradua passed away.
