The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has expressed confidence in Buhari-Osinbajo ticket for the
2019, debunking a newspaper report speculating he may be picked by President
Muhammadu Buhari as his running mate in 2019, reports ITRealms.
According to a press statement made available to ITRealms by his media office, entitled “Asiwaju
Tinubu Debunks SUN Report on 2019 VP Slot” the APC chieftain said he and the
people of the South-west “have absolute confidence and are exceedingly proud of
the excellent job Professor Osinbajo is doing as Vice President of Nigeria.”
ITRealms recalls
that SUN Newspapers in a front page lead story on Wednesday claimed that Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo was considering returning to full church work and that
Tinubu was being mooted as a replacement for him, “as a way to have a solid
South-west support for the APC, in the face of a South-east/South-south
alliance in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)”.
Reacting, Tinubu said in Lagos said “There is no empirical
or logical basis for this mischievously speculative story. Is it even
conceivable, as the story recklessly insinuates, that Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo would be considering returning to full church work rather than run
with his boss, President Buhari for a second term if the latter so decides
without as much as discussing such a sensitive issue with his party and with
Asiwaju Tinubu? In any case, is this story not entirely unwarranted and
indefensible as the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket has an electoral mandate of four
years out of which it has spent only over two years and a half years?
“This is clearly an attempt to distract the APC Federal
Government from the yeoman’s job it has been doing in rescuing the country from
the deep rooted socio-economic, political, security and moral mess inherited
from the PDP’s 16 years misrule of Nigeria, instigate crisis within the party,
stoke dangerous embers of religious disaffection within the party and the
country generally and stem the remarkable progress being made in the
reinvention and revitalization of Nigeria” part of the press statement read.
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