I WAS NOT BOUNCED IN BOURDILLON…Muiz Banire

On Monday, February 9th, news went viral that a three-time commissioner in Lagos State, Dr Muiz Banire, was bounced from entering the Bourdillon, Ikoyi home of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu owing to his well-publicised disagreement with his alleged imposition of the All Progressives’ Congress, APC, Lagos governorship candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode, on the party. Banire had reckoned then that as a new party preaching CHANGE, the imposition style of the past should stop and allow a level playing field for all aspirants to any office. Tinubu’s pen warriors did not overlook the slight as they took on Banire, calling him an ingrate, among other names, for wanting to bite the fingers that feed him. Banire is the current National Legal Adviser of the APC, a position Tinubu’s media warlords also allege that he got because of Tinubu’s backing.
In a chat with Naijahottestgist, Banire said the story is just the creation of the writer as he does not have a problem with ‘my leader’ and “I have not been to Bourdillon in about three weeks because I have been very busy in Abuja due to the workload of my position as the National Legal Adviser of the APC.” He said further that he was too busy to bother with such a puerile story that cannot be substantiated with any iota of fact. Dr Banire further disclosed that he does not have any issue with Asiwaju Tinubu because as human beings, “We have had cause to disagree in the past based on principles but our relationship has remained cordial and rock-solid like it has been for almost two decades.”
A Notary Public and erudite legal scholar, Banire has a doctorate degree in Property Law from the University of Lagos. He was a former Senior Lecturer at the Department of Private and Properly Law, University of Lagos and has also been in active legal practice for about two decades. He is also a prolific writer on different areas of law and has a robust public service experience as a Commissioner of Environment, and later Transportation. He served as Commissioner of Special Duties before calling time on a 12-year stewardship to the Lagos State government.