{"id":152050,"date":"2022-02-22T06:33:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T05:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=152050"},"modified":"2022-02-22T06:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T05:33:32","slug":"2023-aide-explains-tinubus-fight-dirty-comment-says-he-was-misunderstood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/02\/22\/2023-aide-explains-tinubus-fight-dirty-comment-says-he-was-misunderstood\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Aide explains Tinubu&#8217;s &#8216;fight dirty&#8217; comment, says he was misunderstood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media aide to Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos and APC chieftain, Tunde Rahman has disclosed that his principal&#8217;s comment on being &#8220;ready to get dirty&#8221; over his presidential bid was misunderstood.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that on Sunday, Tinubu while speaking when he visited Lekan Balogun, the Olubadan designate, in Ibadan had stated that no intimidation or blackmail can stop him, adding that is \u201cready to get dirty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m out to become the president of Nigeria. No <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/02\/21\/2023-no-amount-of-intimidation-can-stop-me-tinubu\/\">intimidation<\/a>, no blackmail can stop me. I have read about a Greek philosopher that if you want to fight a pig, you must be ready to be smeared and I\u2019m ready to be dirty,\u201d Tinubu had said.<\/p>\n<p>But in a statement issued on Monday, Rahman said Tinubu\u2019s statement was misunderstood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn continuation of his consultations and engagements with the traditional rulers and critical stakeholders across the country, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Sunday, February 20, 2022, visited the Alaafin of Oyo, Iku Baba Yeye, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi 111, and on his return from ancient Oyo town, he paid a courtesy call on the Olubadan-Designate, Senator Lekan Balogun,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeaking at the residence of Olubadan-Designate, the All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Tinubu, referring to some of the unwarranted attacks against him used the metaphor of wrestling with the pig, saying \u201cif you decide to wrestle with the pig, you must be ready to get dirty.\u201d He said he had accepted to take the insults and dirt thrown at him by some people as a price to pay for venturing into politics and seeking to be President of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, the wrong headline and story have been latched on by some online platforms\/blogs and commentators to pour invective on Asiwaju Tinubu. These commentaries and remarks are unfortunate because they are groundless, misinformed and misdirected. Hence, this clarification has become imperative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt bears restating that at no time during the visit and in his speech did Asiwaju indicate that he would fight dirty for his presidential ambition. His words were carefully chosen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor clarity and avoidance of doubt, this is what the APC leader told Olubadan-Designate High Chief Balogun: \u201cKabiyesi, all I have come for is to beg you to continue to pray for me, the entire Yoruba race and the country. Now I am out. Out for what, Kabiyesi? I am out to become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. There is a wise saying that if you want to wrestle with the pig, be ready to get dirty and deal with the poo-poo. I am ready to get dirty. No intimidation, no blackmail, no sort of insult will get me angry to the extent that I will say no more, I don\u2019t want again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis statement is comprehensible and clear enough. Our appeal to the media is that as the 2023 election approaches, and indeed at all times, they should not allow their mediums and platforms to be deployed in the desperate smear campaigns and campaigns of calumny by politicians. They owe themselves and our society to report accurately and objectively without fear or favour. The duty of the media as the Fourth Estate of the Realm is a sacred one that must be guarded jealously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media aide to Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos and APC chieftain, Tunde Rahman has disclosed that his principal&#8217;s comment on being &#8220;ready to get dirty&#8221; over his presidential bid was misunderstood. 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