National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has boasted that he led the political movement that led to the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015.
Tinubu made this known while addressing the APC delegates in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He said Buhari had already given up his presidential ambition before he backed him in 2015.
He said: “If not for me that led the war front, Buhari wouldn’t have emerged. 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 will 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 any contract.
“This time, it’s Yoruba turn and in Yorubaland, it’s my tenure.”
Tinubu also revealed that he was the person that nominated Yemi Osinbajo as Buhari’s running mate in 2014.
He said he was offered a running mate ticket by Buhari but some blocs opposed the move, citing the menace of fielding two Moslems as the party’s candidates in the general elections.
Also, Tinubu declared that the Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, would not have emerged in 2019 without his support
He said: “Dapo that’s sitting down here, could he 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 it over to him, I was the one who brought it.
“If he wants to meet God at the right place, he must know that without God and me, he would not have become governor.”
It should be recalled that Abiodun had earlier declared his support for Osinbajo, who is an indigene of Ogun State.
However, he told Tinubu, whom he described as a top-notch strategist, political warrior and serial winner that Ogun State delegates would do “the right thing” at the convention.
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