BREAKING: #Tinubu Did Not Have The Capacity To Make #Buhari President In 2015—-The Genius Media Nigeria reports that Activist and convener of Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju has responded to the bragging and boastfulness of a presidential aspirant and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Jagaban Bola Ahmed #Tinubu’s claim that without him, President Muhammadu Buhari wouldn’t have won the presidential election in 2015.
This is coming after Tinubu opened up on his role in the emergence of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) as the President in 2015.
The former Lagos State governor, while addressing the Ogun State APC delegates at the Presidential Lodge, Abeokuta, said Buhari, after losing 2003, 2007 and 2011 presidential elections, vowed not to contest again.
Tinubu, however said he went to Katsina to persuade Buhari to contest and subsequently supported him to win in 2015.
Tinubu also took a swipe at one of his fellow presidential aspirants in the APC, the Vice-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, saying he nominated him as Buhari’s running mate.
Describing the election as a “battle”, Tinubu also spoke on how he “surrendered” the vice-presidential ticket to Yemi Osinbajo, when concerns were raised over a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the APC.
“Buhari asked me to be his running mate, but Saraki campaigned against a Muslim-Muslim ticket. He felt it would affect his ambition to be senate president. The senate president could not be a Muslim as well. They rose against it. I said ‘I have someone that’s a Christian and I will nominate him. This party must not scatter’. And I nominated him (Osinbajo). That’s the truth,” Tinubu said in Yoruba.
“They asked me to bring three names. Yemi Cardoso was number one. Wale Edun was number two, Yemi Osinbajo was number three. I decided to drop just one name since I was surrendering my right. Buhari agreed to this and I dropped Yemi Osinbajo’s name.
“You have not heard this from me before. This is the first place I am saying this. It’s my time now.
“If not for me that led the battlefront, Buhari wouldn’t have won. He contested first, second and third time, 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 matter of the Yoruba’. Since he has been elected, I have not been appointed minister. I didn’t get a contract.
“This time, it’s Yoruba turn and in Yorubaland, it’s my turn.”
Reacting to Tinubu’s claim via his social media platform, Deji said Atiku, Kwankwaso, Saraki & the NPDP Govs did more to make Buhari president than Tinubu
He tweeted:
“Tinubu did not have the capacity to make Buhari president in 2015.
Atiku, Kwankwaso, Saraki & the NPDP Govs did more to make Buhari president than Tinubu. AMAECHI did more. OBJ did more. IBB & the Northern cabal did more. The votes from Kano + Katsina was more than SW.”
Tinubu did not have the capacity to make Buhari president in 2015.
Atiku, Kwankwaso, Saraki & the NPDP Govs did more to make Buhari president than Tinubu. AMAECHI did more. OBJ did more. IBB & the Northern cabal did more. The votes from Kano + Katsina was more than SW.
— Comrade Deji Adeyanju (@adeyanjudeji) June 3, 2022
