Tinubu in a series of tweets signed by his media office and posted on his official Twitter handle on Tuesday gave the name of the campaign group as ‘Asiwaju Reloaded Ambassadors’ Nigeria.’
“We have seen pictures of face caps, T shirts, shirts and even leaflets with Bola Tinubu 2023 embossed on them,” he tweeted.
“We hereby, through this medium, categorically deny any knowledge of the group and dissociates Asiwaju Tinubu from the group’s unsolicited and unwarranted materials,” he added.
There has been various insinuations that the former Lagos State governor will be running on the platform of the APC as the country’s next president.
Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-rufai at a lecture in Lagos, in May, gave his audience tips on how to deal with godfathers in politics, following a question from a former APC Legal Adviser Muiz Banire.
Both El-rufai and Tinubu are chieftains in the APC.
The verbal assault was believed to have been directed at Tinubu, who is regarded as the godfather of Lagos politics. El-Rufai came under intense attack. He later denied that his comment was directed at Tinubu.
Critics say the verbal assault was El-rufai’s indications that he may not be in support of Tinubu should he emerge the party’s flag-bearer in the 2023.
In April critics said Tinubu was propping up Femi Gbajabiamila, to emerge as the Speaker of House of Representatives as part of his plans to run for the presidency in 2023. Gbajabiamila won the speakership election.
Tinubu described the report as ‘senseless’ reports, stating that his support for Ahmed Lawan and Gbajabiamila was aimed at helping Buhari succeed in the “shared vision of a flourishing economy and a prosperous people,” in his second term.
“Not only are these reports utterly false, based as they are in the febrile imaginations of those persons by whom they are being peddled, they are injurious to President Buhari’s historic quest to reform Nigeria,” Tinubu said in a statement.