BOLA TINUBU BATTLES SON,JIDE OVER LAVISH SPENDING
Former governor of Lagos State and Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has continued to decline persuasions by his first son, Jide Tinubu to set him up in business.
The quiet unfriendliness between Tinubu and Jide, who has a perfect semblance with his father, has become protracted, despite attempts for an amicable resolution.
Family sources hinted Pankereonline that efforts by close family members, including his (Tinubu) octogenarian mother, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, close friends and few party stalwarts, to placate him to forgive Jide have fallen on deaf ears. He was said to have severally impressed it on Jide's emissaries that he should rather take up a job in one of the agencies in Lagos State, and prove his diligence.
Pankereonline learnt that Tinubu has severally declined Jide's plea to sign off some money to me, which the family source claims is in several millions of naira.
'The young man feels that his father is not sincere and only out to ridicule him among his other siblings, said our source.
The source claimed that Jide's grouse against his father is why he has to advise that he takes a job with a Lagos State agency, when many people not related to the family have suddenly become multi-millionaires through their encounters with him.
' I hope Asiwaju will change his mind about the boy, because it is really a shame to see his chip of the old block go so broke when his siblings are all high flyers in their different engagements,' our source chipped.
Asked whether Senator Remi Tinubu, Tinubu's famous wife has waded into the matter in favour of a resolution between them, our source dismissed her rare interventions as feeble and, smack of lip service.
Another source added that even political associates of Tinubu, like Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, and his [Tinubu's] influential ally, Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State would rather avoid Jide and not extend any gesture to him.
Fashola, was recently said to have given a car gift to Seyi Tinubu, Tinubu's favourite son, when he graduated from a university in United Kingdom recently.
Seyi, in his late twenties, rides around town in one of his father's Mercedez Benz G wagon and resides in the family's sprawling Bourdillion, Ikoyi Mansion.
Contrary to Jide's purported grouse, a close friend of Tinubu and member of his kitchen cabinet during his eight years as governor, told Pankereonline in confidence that no father would take lightly to Jide's rudeness and confrontations in time past against his father. He mentioned a violent confrontation, which he pleaded not come out in print, between the duo several years ago in the United States. "Do you pray that your son does that to you," he queried.
Jide, an American returnee, is the second child of the billionaire politician, and mostly seen in Surulere, Surulere Local Government Area, Lagos. Tinubu's first child is a female, whom he had by another woman.
Jide,dark and lanky, was said to have unstable behaviour from a close watch - a behaviour the family source alleged is a residual effect of his past indulgence in drug use while in the US.
However, the family source was quick to add that Jide's ordeal is more than meet the eye and suggestive of a spiritual attack, because as he concluded, " the guy cuts the smartness and intelligence of his father, though shows slothfulness.
The quiet unfriendliness between Tinubu and Jide, who has a perfect semblance with his father, has become protracted, despite attempts for an amicable resolution.
Family sources hinted Pankereonline that efforts by close family members, including his (Tinubu) octogenarian mother, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, close friends and few party stalwarts, to placate him to forgive Jide have fallen on deaf ears. He was said to have severally impressed it on Jide's emissaries that he should rather take up a job in one of the agencies in Lagos State, and prove his diligence.
Pankereonline learnt that Tinubu has severally declined Jide's plea to sign off some money to me, which the family source claims is in several millions of naira.
'The young man feels that his father is not sincere and only out to ridicule him among his other siblings, said our source.
The source claimed that Jide's grouse against his father is why he has to advise that he takes a job with a Lagos State agency, when many people not related to the family have suddenly become multi-millionaires through their encounters with him.
' I hope Asiwaju will change his mind about the boy, because it is really a shame to see his chip of the old block go so broke when his siblings are all high flyers in their different engagements,' our source chipped.
Asked whether Senator Remi Tinubu, Tinubu's famous wife has waded into the matter in favour of a resolution between them, our source dismissed her rare interventions as feeble and, smack of lip service.
Another source added that even political associates of Tinubu, like Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, and his [Tinubu's] influential ally, Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State would rather avoid Jide and not extend any gesture to him.
Fashola, was recently said to have given a car gift to Seyi Tinubu, Tinubu's favourite son, when he graduated from a university in United Kingdom recently.
Seyi, in his late twenties, rides around town in one of his father's Mercedez Benz G wagon and resides in the family's sprawling Bourdillion, Ikoyi Mansion.
Contrary to Jide's purported grouse, a close friend of Tinubu and member of his kitchen cabinet during his eight years as governor, told Pankereonline in confidence that no father would take lightly to Jide's rudeness and confrontations in time past against his father. He mentioned a violent confrontation, which he pleaded not come out in print, between the duo several years ago in the United States. "Do you pray that your son does that to you," he queried.
Jide, an American returnee, is the second child of the billionaire politician, and mostly seen in Surulere, Surulere Local Government Area, Lagos. Tinubu's first child is a female, whom he had by another woman.
Jide,dark and lanky, was said to have unstable behaviour from a close watch - a behaviour the family source alleged is a residual effect of his past indulgence in drug use while in the US.
However, the family source was quick to add that Jide's ordeal is more than meet the eye and suggestive of a spiritual attack, because as he concluded, " the guy cuts the smartness and intelligence of his father, though shows slothfulness.
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