In a surprising turn of events, the factional president of NANS, Atiku Isah, has retracted a series of allegations against President Bola Tinubu’s son, Seyi Tinubu, which he describes as untrue and instigated.
This follows Isah’s claim that Seyi Tinubu and the Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, offered him a N100 million bribe in Lagos to promote the president, an allegation Seyi Tinubu has since denied.
Controversy began when the students’ leader called the Seyi out, claiming he rejected the bribe, stating that he could not promote a President who had failed to fulfil his electoral promises. He also alleged he was stripped naked, abducted, and assaulted on April 15.
Isah issued a statement via his personal Facebook page on Wednesday, tagged “Setting the Records Straight/Public Apology to Seyi Tinubu”, to disclose that his earlier claims, including an alleged N100 million bribe offer, abduction, assault, and forced recantation, were influenced by deceitful information by NANS President Olusola Ladoja.
“It has become clear that the offer of N100,000,000, which was alleged was made to me to support President Tinubu, was clearly untrue, as Ladoja Olusola, who was desperate to get me out of my legitimate position as the duly elected President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, fed me lies and half-truths for the sole purpose of achieving his selfish agenda of taking over the reins of the student body through the back doors,” he stated.
“I made these claims owing to the picture of Seyi Tinubu painted to me by Ladoja Olusola, who swore to me that Seyi was doing everything to ensure I am not alive to serve my tenure as NANS president.
“It was also Ladoja Olusola who warned me that Mr Seyi Tinubu could order my killing and thereafter instruct the Inspector General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, to bury the matter,” he wrote.
The factional NANS president also recanted his earlier claim that Seyi Tinubu had led thugs to the venue of his inauguration. He later said Seyi was never at the location.
