Asiwaju Bola Tinubu |
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress,
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Friday said he was working on a book that would detail
how his party removed former President Goodluck Jonathan from office.
Tinubu reportedly played an instrumental role in the merger
of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change and All
Nigeria Peoples Party to form the APC that presented President Muhammadu Buhari
as candidate.
Buhari removed an incumbent President from office in 2015.
Speaking at the launch of “Against the Run of Play”, a book
authored by Chairman, ThisDay Editorial Board, Olusegun Adeniyi, Tinubu said he
would soon reveal how the APC defeated the Peoples Democratic Party in the last
presidential election.
Tinubu, who was represented at the event by his media aide,
Mr. Tunde Rahman, also noted that he played a big role in the emergence of
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as Nigeria’s Vice-President.
He said people should not dwell on his loss of the
vice-presidential seat but on the achievements of Osinbajo, whom he had
nominated for the position.
Rahman said, “Some have said that they will tell their
story, Asiwaju is also working on his own book to tell his account of what
transpired.
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Tinubu
“To tell how he was able to mould the APC to the extent that
it was able to unseat an incumbent president for the first time in the history
of our contemporary politics.
“The account of what transpired as told by Bola Ahmed Tinubu
in the book and as presented in some newspapers is not about him losing the
vice-presidency and the eventual vice-president emerging, as the reviewer has put
it.
“Asiwaju spoke in greater context in that book, and when
people are making comments, they should speak with the context in which he
spoke. If they are saying that Asiwaju lost the vice-presidency and that a
vice-president emerged, where did he emerge from? Who nominated the
vice-president?
“I’d like to say that even the vice-president has said on
some occasions that a certain political leader from the South-West nominated
him for the job and we all know who that is.
“That nomination has been a very good choice from all the
wonderful things the vice-president has been doing.”
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