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Former Lagos state Governor and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has taken a jibe at the current senate president, Ahmed Lawan for competing with him when power was already zoned to the South.
Tinubu posited that Lawan can now lick his wounds after losing out in at the presidential primaries.
Tinubu made this statement on Wednesday while delivering his acceptance speech at Eagle Square, Abuja shortly after his emergence as the APC Flag bearer.
He said “To the legislature, Senate President Ahmad Lawan, I would have been a little upset because you competed with me. But it is over now because you can easily lick your wounds,” Tinubu said.
He however thanked Lawan for his efforts as a parliamentarian in moving Nigeria forward.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that Tinubu polled 1,271 votes to defeat 13 other aspirants, including a former Transport Minister, Rotimi Ameachi and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who scored 316 and 235 votes respectively.
Tinubu will now slug it out with People’s Democratic Party’s candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party’s Peter Obi in next year’s general election.
Findings show that Tinubu supported Lawan in 2015 against Senator Bukola Saraki who eventually emerged senate president after a back and forth battle.
He also threw his hat in the ring for him before his emergence in 2019 as the senate president.