The battle line seems to have been drawn ahead of the presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress as presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu has insisted that it is his turn to occupy the country’s number one seat.
The APC National Leader at the Presidential Lodge in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, while addressing APC delegates.
Speaking in Yoruba, Tinubu said he is done serving the interest of his political associates while narrating how he was instrumental to the electoral victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 general election.
He also shared publicly for the first time, how he nominated Professor Yemi Osinbajo as Buhari’s running mate after a campaign of calumny was allegedly launched against him by the former Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
Tinubu, who was in company of Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, his Kano counterpart, Umar Ganduje, and former Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, reminded the delegates how President Buhari lost elections on three occasions and vowed not to contest again after weeping on national television, adding that he was the one who convinced him to contest again and that he will support him to victory.
In his words, he said “Since he became the President, I have never got ministerial slots; I didn’t collect any contract, I have never begged for anything from him, it is the turn of Yoruba, it is my turn.”
Speaking about PDP’s presidential candidate, Tinubu said when Atiku was being flogged out of the PDP by Obasanjo, he ran to me for help. I let him have the ticket. Nuhu Ribadu came to me and I backed him.
Referring to Ogun state Governor, Dapo Abiodun in his remarks, Tinubu said, “This one sitting behind me here, could not have become governor without me? We were at the stadium; they tore all his posters. Even the party flag, they didn’t want to hand over it to him, I was the one who brought it.
Responding, Governor Abiodun said he hoped Tinubu would get his heart’s desire.
In an interview with Inspiration FM, Aare Osi Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Ganiu Kayode-Balogun said the supposed revelations are not new.
