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APC strongman, Bola Ahmed Tinubu says he he made Muhammadu Buhari Nigeria’s President and nominated Prof Yemi Osinbajo as his Vice President.
This is coming few days to the ruling party’s special National Convention.
He stated this at the Presidential Lodge in Abeokuta, the state capital, while addressing the APC delegates ahead of the party’s primary.
Tinubu also claimed that the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, would not have been the governor in 2019 without his support.
He went down memory lane to narrate what led to the emergence of Osinbajo as vice president, saying Buhari had offered him a running mate ticket, but some blocs rose against it, on the excuse of a Muslim-Muslim ticket.
Tinubu used the opportunity to state that when he was asked to submit three names for running mate, he penciled down Yemi Kadoso, Wale Edun, and Yemi Osinbajo and later settled for Osinbajo.
In his words, “You have not heard this from me before. This is the first place I am saying this,” the former Lagos Governor stated.
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On Buhari’s emergence, he said “If not for me that led the war front, Buhari won’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 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 nor request a contract. This time; it’s Yoruba turn and in Yorubaland, it’s my tenure.”
Tinubu also said without God and him, The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, would not have emerged as APC candidate and the eventual winner of the 2019 governorship election in the state.
Referring to 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 it over to him.
“If he wants to meet God at the right place, he must know that without God and me, he would not have become governor.”
He added, “since the time we started with the Action Congress, Action Congress of Nigeria, and now the All Progressives Congress, I wanted to contest for president that time.
“This is me telling you between me and God Almighty, Buhari called me to be his Vice President. He said because the first time he contested, he picked Okadigbo, flamboyant, catholic, but Nigerians didn’t vote for him.
“The second time, he picked another Igbo, Umezeoke, Nigerians didn’t vote for him; that if he goes to bring the Pope to run as his vice, Nigerians won’t vote for him. But you, Bola Tinubu, you have six governors, you have never lost an election before, come and be my vice”.