The National Legal Adviser to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muiz Banire (SAN), has denied reports that he has fallen out of favour with the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Banire has also criticised those seeking his expulsion from the APC, describing them as political jobbers who know nothing about the party’s constitution.
He disclosed this during a phone interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today after shunning a disciplinary committee set up by his constituency to investigate allegations of anti-party activities levelled against him.
Members of Banire’s constituency have held protests, calling for his expulsion from the party, but he attributed this to his insistence on transparency in the party and his opposition to impunity.
Asked if his travails had anything to do with falling out of favour with Tinubu, he said, “I have no problem whatsoever. I have not fallen out with anybody much less Asiwaju Tinubu particularly. As far as I am concerned, Asiwaju is our leader; I have no issue with him.
“Those people who certainly are not for the rule of law can never be my friends. I am for the rule of law. It is as simple as that.” he said.
