Recently, a rather heated exchange ensued on television after Director-General of Bola Tinubu Support Management Council, Abdulmumin Jibrin was inquired about his principal’s age and how he amassed his wealth.

Occur television journalist, Oseni Rufai who asked the question, stated that last he checked “Tinubu was an accountant at Mobil”. He even more asked how the former Governor of Lagos could accumulate a lot wealth that “he might afford a bullion van” prior to an election at his house.

Reacting to the question, Jibrin stated that focus ought to be on what Tinubu has accomplished, how he reversed the income of Lagos and infrastructural advancement.

Once again, he was asked ” how did Bola Tinubu make so much cash that he had a bullion van in his house on election day. And how old is he?”

Mr Jibrin in his response stated: “When you continue to duplicate the concern, you will get the exact same response. These are all garbage from the web that individuals put together and we will not raise such discussion.

“But when the campaign starts, we will bring out truths and figures prior to Nigerians but we will not create a story for them.”

When he was asked again, he questioned the journalist’s professionalism while asking the recruiter to “endure his reaction.” “I responded, if you do not like the method I reacted to it, you carry on,” he said.

Mr Jibrin had earlier throughout the interview said being an excellent leader is not a function of age.

He said; “You can be a boy and be a bad leader, a young man well informed and be a bad leader and you can be an old man of 70 years even above and be a very good leader … The most essential thing is capability and proficiency.”

On the eve of the 2019 general elections, viral photos on social networks revealed 2 bullion vans driving into Mr Tinubu’s residence.

Tinubu later confessed the bullion vans were conveying cash to his house, however safeguarded his action, stating he did nothing wrong due to the fact that he was not a federal government authorities.

Watch a video of the interview listed below:

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