Tinubu Descends On Buhari, Osinbajo; Says They Are His Products; Claims Yoruba Turn As His Personal Turn”

By Adesina Soyooye

A more aggressive Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, fearing he might not easily get the Presidential ticket, has laid bare the political failures of President Muhammadu Buhari.

He, also, did not spare Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, also, a Presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress, APC. He  reminded him that it is thanks to him, Tinubu, that Osinbajo became Vice President.

Tinubu went on an all out offensive when he went to Ogun State, Osinbajo’s home State, where he did not also spare the State Governor, Dapo Abiodun who had, earlier, endorsed the Vice President’s Presidential aspiration. He claimed he made Abiodun Governor.

And he claimed more.

The former two-time Governor said it is the turn of the Yoruba to produce the President, but added, for the records that “Yoruba’s turn is my tenure”

Speaking on how Buhari became President, Buhari reminded the President of his past failures. He said Buhari failed to win the Presidency three times, and even said he would never contest again. Tinubu revealed that it took his going to Katsina to convince him to run, and promised him, you would win. He, thereafter, installed Buhari President.

Settling the debate on who exactly nominated Osinbajo as Buhari’s running mate, Tinubu said he was the one, and he deliberately chose Osinbajo’s home State to settle the debate.

He said Buhari had picked him, Tinubu, to run with him. But there was a lot of dust over a Muslim-Muslim ticket. He said he was then asked to submit three names, and he submitted Yemi Kadoso, Wale Edun, and Osinbajo. But he said he later settled for Osinbajo.

Tinubu: “You have not heard this from me before. This is the first place I am saying this.

“If not me that I 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 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 contract.

“This time, it’s Yoruba turn and in Yorubaland, it’s my tenure.”

On the emergence of Governor Abiodun, Tinubu said Abiodun would not have emerged Governor but for him and God.

“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 over it 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.”

On the trip with Tinubu were Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Kano Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje and former Governor of Borno State, Senator Kasin Shettima.