A Presidential aspirant on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has recounted how he nominated Professor Yemi Osinbajo as President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in 2015.
Tinubu who stated this while speaking with members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Thursday, asserted that Buhari had before the election approached him to be his running mate, because he had failed with every other person he picked as running mates in his earlier attempts but he had to nominate the current Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo.
The presidential aspirant stressed that it was former Senate President Bukola Saraki that thwarted the plan by playing the Muslim-Muslim ticket gambit.
He said that he single-handedly nominated Osinbajo to occupy the post originally given to him.
‘I gave Osinbajo my right to be Vice President. You’re hearing this from me for the first time. That’s the truth,’ Tinubu said.
Tinubu had also claimed that without his support, President Muhammadu Buhari would not have won the 2015 election.
Speaking in Ogun State, Tinubu said, ‘If not me that led the war from the front, Buhari would not have emerged as the president. He contested first, second and third times, but lost. He even said on television that he won’t contest again.
‘But I went to his home in Katsina, I told him you would contest and win, but you won’t joke with the matters of the Yorubas.
‘Since he has emerged, I have not been appointed Minister. I didn’t get a contract.
‘This time, it’s Yoruba’s turn and in Yoruba land, it’s my tenure.’
Tinubu appealed to the 60 delegates in Ogun to support him during the APC primary election.
Africa Today News, New York recall that President Buhari has appealed to governors of the APC to assist him in picking his successor.
Tinubu had recently guaranteed that if elected, he will restore the country’s economic prosperity, tranquility, security, and political stability.