2015: Oyinlola reveals how ex-president Obasanjo stopped Tinubu from being VP
- Ex-president Obasanjo and former Gombe governor Goje advised APC against a presidential ticket that could have made Tinubu Vice President
- A former Osun governor Oyinlola explained how the choice of Buhari/Tinubu was switched to Buhari/Osinbajo for 2015 presidential race
- Oyinlola disagreed that Obasanjo worked against Tinubu because it was a piece of advice that the party deliberated on before making its decision
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A former governor of Lagos state, Bola Ahmed Tinubu would have been Nigeria's vice president in 2015 had ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo not advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) against it.
Obasanjo had explained that a Muslim-Muslim ticket would not have worked well to oust the government of his successor former president Goodluck Jonathan.
This was revealed by a former governor of Osun state and ex-military administrator of Lagos state, Olagunsoye Oyinlola in an interview with The Punch.
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 recalled:
"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.
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A former Gombe state governor and now senator, Mohammed Danjuma Goje, also took a similar stand.
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Goje said the party needed all the votes it could get to defeat Jonathan. A Muslim-Muslim ticket could alienate some voters, he explained.
Oyinlola added:
"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."
And that was how Tinubu's hopes of being vice president in 2015 ended.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported recently that ahead of the 2023 presidential elections, a former governor of Jigawa state, Sule Lamido, said President Buhari would never support Tinubu to succeed him.
Although Tinubu has not officially declared his intention to run for the presidency in 2023, there are strong speculations that the ex-Lagos governor wants to take over from President Buhari.
Source: Legit.ng
