Gbajabiamila : Group clears air over appointment of Tinubu’s Chief of Staff
A pro-Bola Tinubu Presidency support group, Renewed Hope Advocates (RHA), said yesterday that a recent report that the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, had considered the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, as his Chief of Staff, was false because there was no such consideration on the card at the time of the said report.
The group, in a statement by the Director General, Olufemi-Daniels Agbaoku, said the Speaker, whom he claimed had become “inexplicably desperate” about the job, was the one selling the narrative, with a view to being favoured for the job by Asiwaju Tinubu over and above anyone else.
Agbaoku, therefore, advised Tinubu to ignore the pressure being mounted by Gbajabiamila and his cronies and go for a more competent hand with the right temperament, mindset and credibility for the job, because the president-elect could not be struggling with the legitimacy of his mandate at the moment and still battled credibility crisis of his Chief of Staff.
Agbaoku, whose group claimed to have played a critical part in the emergence of Tinubu at their level without seeking financial help from anyone, except that they believed in his ability to change the tide, said it was bad enough that Gbajabiamila became Speaker despite reservations about him globally.
He said the office of the president could not be traded on such “pedestrian altar of man knows man.”
