NPA INCARCERATION: Tinubu has apologised to me – Bode George
Former Deputy National Chairman (South West)) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olabode George has said former Lagos State governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has apologised to him over the ignoble roles he (Tinubu) played in his unjust incarceration.
He added that both of them are now friends and he no longer harbours any ill-feelings towards Tinubu and others who masterminded his imprisonment at Kiri-kiri over allegations of contract splitting.
It will be recalled that George alongside some principal officers of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) were sentenced in 2009 to 30 months imprisonment by Justice Olubunmi Oyewole of a Lagos High Court in Ikeja. The Supreme Court later gave him a clean bill of health.
In several interviews he granted upon his release, George had always accused Tinubu of being the arrowhead of those who plotted his downfall.
Both men always avoided each other at public functions.
But George told journalists on Thursday that both he and Tinubu have mended fences after the APC leader publicly apologised to him at Ibadan during the funeral rites of late businessman, Arisekola Alao.
“Tinubu is now my friend. We don’t quarrel again. He has apologized to me. He apologized publicly at Adamasingba stadium dring the burial of Arisekola- Alao”.
“ He came to me publicly and said I am sorry in the full glare of those present. I said it is all over anmd wer shook hands. I thank God that at least I didn’t die in prison” he said.
He added that both of them are now friends and he no longer harbours any ill-feelings towards Tinubu and others who masterminded his imprisonment at Kiri-kiri over allegations of contract splitting.
It will be recalled that George alongside some principal officers of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) were sentenced in 2009 to 30 months imprisonment by Justice Olubunmi Oyewole of a Lagos High Court in Ikeja. The Supreme Court later gave him a clean bill of health.
In several interviews he granted upon his release, George had always accused Tinubu of being the arrowhead of those who plotted his downfall.
Both men always avoided each other at public functions.
But George told journalists on Thursday that both he and Tinubu have mended fences after the APC leader publicly apologised to him at Ibadan during the funeral rites of late businessman, Arisekola Alao.
“Tinubu is now my friend. We don’t quarrel again. He has apologized to me. He apologized publicly at Adamasingba stadium dring the burial of Arisekola- Alao”.
“ He came to me publicly and said I am sorry in the full glare of those present. I said it is all over anmd wer shook hands. I thank God that at least I didn’t die in prison” he said.
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