No, Abdulrahman Has Not Fallen Out of Favour with Tinubu

A report asking whether Kwara Governor Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq had fallen out of favour with President Bola Tinubu is dismissed here as a politically motivated construction. The writer says the article by Adeniyi Ishola used innuendo, falsehoods and conjecture to create the impression that the governor was no longer welcome at the presidential villa.

The response argues that the original piece failed the basic test of reporting and was misleadingly presented as both an investigative report and an opinion article. It also rejects the suggestion that an alleged deterioration in the relationship between Tinubu and AbdulRazaq explains the governor's position in the recently released Presidential Campaign Council.

AbdulRazaq was described as a state director in the council. The article argues that this role is logical for a governor facing a difficult election battle because his priority should be to consolidate his base and coordinate support for Tinubu's re-election and for other All Progressives Congress candidates in Kwara.

The writer also disputes claims that the governor pushed family members for council appointments. It says those family members have influence of their own and did not need AbdulRazaq's backing, while insisting that the governor would not trade his nominations for relatives. The article presents the controversy as an attempt to weaponize a political report, although the supplied text ends while discussing the 2023 Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council.

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Has Abdulrahman fallen out of favour with Tinubu?