The cold war between the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu and Senate President, Bukola Saraki is far from over as reports have it that the former Lagos State Governor revently barred the Senator representing Ondo-Central senatorial district, Senator Tayo Alasoadura, from attending South-West caucus meetings.
According to Punch, the senator was barred from attending the meeting because he had supported Saraki against the party’s wishes.
Alasoadura was one of the senators that followed Saraki to the Code of Conduct Tribunal trial in solidarity on Tuesday, September 22, 2015.
A source who spoke with Punch availed thus: “Alasoadura was a Commissioner for Finance under the late Dr. Olusegun Agagu for over five years. He later defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the Action Congress of Nigeria. Tinubu accepted him and appointed him the Director-General of the Rotimi Akeredolu governorship campaign organisation in 2013.
“Alasoadura was not even supposed to have emerged the senatorial candidate of the APC in the last election but the party favoured him. However, when he got to the Senate, he returned to his PDP family and started working against the party. He also supported Saraki against the interest of the party.
“When Tinubu convened a South-West meeting in Abuja during the height of the National Assembly crisis, Alasoadura came. However, Tinubu walked him out of the meeting and told his orderly to ensure that the senator was escorted off the premises.
“Tinubu also warned senators present to ensure that sensitive issues were not discussed in the presence of Alasoadura as he was an enemy within.”
