I have no presidential ambition, says Tambuwal

Despite the flooding of the major roads in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital with his 2015 presidential posters, Speaker of House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, at the weekend, tactically denied nursing such ambition during his visit to the state capital.

The Speaker while fielding questions from journalists after paying a condolence visit to the former governor of the state, Senator Rasheed Ladoja, over the death of his mother penultimate week, dismissed the insinuation by pointing at the reporter who asked the question that "you are the one responsible for the posters".

It will be recalled that Alhaja Halimat Sadia Ladoja, the mother of Ladoja died 11 days ago at the age of 94 and the eighth day fidau prayer was held on Thursday during which political heavyweights from across party divides and from all over the country were in attendance.

Tambuwal, accompanied by some of the members of the House of Representatives from Oyo State, described Ladoja as a great leader and veritable legacy of the deceased mother just as he pleaded with the former governor for his inability to attend the eighth day fidau prayer.

He said: "I would have been here since yesterday, but I had to travel to Kano to condole Magaji Aliyu Dambata. We thank God that as a Muslim and as our leader also knows, death is an inevitable thing which everyone of us must experience. "

He noted further that all human beings would taste death, saying "we know all of us come from God and to Him we shall all return. We will leave one day and go back to Him. As a matter of fact, death is the ultimate and inevitable and we must pass through the process that must be surely come.

The former governor and national leader of Accord Party in his response, thanked Tambuwal and his entourage for the visit and disclosed that many dignitaries graced the fidau ceremony.

He described Tambuwal as his senior "because you lost your own mother very many years ago and the good God that has been keeping you will also be with us, the new orphans".

Receiving the Speaker with Ladoja were some of the Accord Party chieftains that include Bayo Lawal, Dele Adigun, Nureni Adeniran, former Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Abraham Adeleke, Bola Amole and Lanre Latinwo, among others.
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