In the yet to be launched book ‘Against the Run of Play,’ written by
the Chairman, Editorial Board
of
ThisDay, Olusegun Adeniyi, National
Leader of APC, Bola Tinubu, alleged that Senate President Bukola Saraki
and Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, persuaded President Buhari
from picking him as his running mate in the 2015 presidential election.
Tinubu alleged that Saraki, El-Rufai and some other politicians who
defected to APC just before the elections, worked against the plan of
the party to make him the running mate of President Buhari.
According to him, the politicians argued that running with President
Buhari would form a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket which could cost
the party victory at the polls.
“What they did behind my back was wrong. We always do things as a group.
By the time they joined, we were already too far ahead in our processes
but we accommodated them. We agreed to take their state structures and
subsume them into the part and they all had their opportunity to
nominate the candidates of their choices for different political
offices. But they went behind to instigate Buhari and some other people
in the party against me on the pretext of religion. That was not right.
They were canvassing arguments that the Christians in the North would
not vote for a Muslim-Muslim ticket.
Nasir el-Rufai was also selling the same argument within the CPC (the
defunct Congress for Progressive Change) because at that point, he still
wanted to have Pastor Bakare brought in as Buhari’s running mate.”
Tinubu is quoted to have said that Buhari later requested him to
nominate three persons for the Vice President's ticket but he presented
only Yemi Osinbajo as his ultimate choice.
“I backed down because I did not want to be depicted as causing a
problem. I backed away from the position in order to offer Buhari a name
I once raised with him in 2011: that of Professor Yemi Osibanjo".
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Saraki and El-Rufai persuaded Buhari not to pick me as his Vice Presidential candidate- Bola Tinubu
Saraki and El-Rufai persuaded Buhari not to pick me as his Vice Presidential candidate- Bola Tinubu
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