The former governor of Lagos State was
instrumental in the merger of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN),
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and All Nigeria Peoples Party
(ANPP) to form the APC
that presented President Muhammadu Buhari as
candidate, who 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.
Speaking on his behalf, his media aide,
Mr. Tunde Rahman, quoted his principal as saying 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.
His words: “Some have said that they
will tell their story, Asiwaju is also working on his own book to tell
his account of what transpired.
“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.
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