A former governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola has revealed how the national leader of All Progressive Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was edged out of the opportunity of being the Vice President of Nigeria in 2015.
According to Oyinlola, ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo was responsible for the action.
Oyinlola revealed during an interview that Obasanjo advised the APC against it, explaining that a Muslim-Muslim ticket would not have worked well to oust the government of former president Goodluck Jonathan.
According to Oyinoloa, Obasanjo was initially opposed to President Muhammadu Buhari’s return to power but he later gave in, only to hear about the combo of Buhari and Tinubu for 2015 presidential race.
Onyinlola saide: “We told him (Obasanjo) they (Buhari and Tinubu) were thinking of a Muslim-Muslim ticket. That was when Baba (Obasanjo) said people should not take the sensibilities of Nigerians for granted.”
The former governor noted that Obasanjo was not alone in advising against the Buhari/Tinubu ticket.
Further, he said: “He (Goje) said the APC would need every vote to upstage the incumbent, so nobody should toy with the idea of a Muslim-Muslim ticket and everybody concurred.”
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