I ordinarily would not have responded to Tom
Ikimi’s lengthy chronicle of falsehoods, cheap blackmail and abuse. My only
reason for this response is that I know Tom Ikimi’s style. He subscribes to the
view that no matter how unbelievable a lie may sound if you brazenly assert it
and repeat it often enough you may persuade many that it is in fact true.
I have seen Ikimi perpetrate this deviousness in his years in public
life.
*Tinubu
1. Regarding Ikimi’s bid for the Chairmanship of the Party. It was clear
to practically everyone who had the interest of the party at heart that we
simply could not have a man of Tom Ikimi’s antecedents as Chair of the party.
As chairman of the NRC, one of the only two political parties in the country
under the military transition programme, Tom Ikimi not only connived with the
then military regime to annul the elections, terminate the democratic process
and sell off his party.
He became Abacha’s foreign minister, convincing the world that heinous state murders like the hanging of Ken Saro Wiwa were just acts! If Ikimi were the Chair of APC the party would have to sleep with both eyes open lest its chairman sell off the party before day break. No matter what anyone may say about me it is unlikely that I can be accused of supporting incompetent or morally light-weight individuals for important political positions.
He became Abacha’s foreign minister, convincing the world that heinous state murders like the hanging of Ken Saro Wiwa were just acts! If Ikimi were the Chair of APC the party would have to sleep with both eyes open lest its chairman sell off the party before day break. No matter what anyone may say about me it is unlikely that I can be accused of supporting incompetent or morally light-weight individuals for important political positions.
