National
Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has accused
Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-
Rufai,
of being responsible for his failure to run in the 2015 presidential election
as running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Mr. Tinubu alleged
that the duo – and other stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who
defected to the APC in the build-up to the 2015 elections – worked separately
but for one purpose, influencing Buhari not to pick him as the would-be
Vice-President.
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The APC
leader’s comments were contained in a book titled ‘Against the Run of Play,’
written by the Chairman, Editorial Board of ThisDay Newspaper, Olusegun
Adeniyi.
In the book,
the former governor accused both politicians of playing the religious card –
telling Buhari a Muslim-Muslim ticket would be unpopular.
His words:
“What they (Saraki and others from the PDP) did behind my back was wrong. We
always do things as a group. By the time they joined, we were already too far
ahead in our processes but we accommodated them.
“We agreed to
take their state structures and subsume them into the part and they all had
their opportunity to nominate the candidates of their choices for different
political offices.
“But they went
behind to instigate Buhari and some other people in the party against me on the
pretext of religion. That was not right. They were canvassing arguments that
the Christians in the North would not vote for a Muslim-Muslim ticket.
“Nasir
el-Rufai was also selling the same argument within the CPC (the defunct
Congress for Progressive Change) because at that point, he still wanted to have
Pastor Bakare brought in as Buhari’s running mate.”
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