How Osinbajo rejected offer to run with Buhari – Tinubu
The national leader of the All progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu has revealed how Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo rejected the offer to run alongside President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.
It was gathered that the vice president had initially refused the offer over religious reasons.
Tinubu who made this revelation in new book written by Olusegun Adeniyi, the chairman of the Thisday editorial board said Osinbajo wanted the APC leader to inform the general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the offer.
He said Osinbajo was a bit hesitant when he was chosen to be President Buhari’s running mate for the 2015 presidential election. In the book, ‘Against the Run Play’, Tinubu said:
“He was a bit hesitant as he asked me to go and tell Pastor Adeboye. I replied by telling him that he needed to inform Pastor Adeboye himself, after all, there had been times when if we needed to see Pastor Adeboye, he was the one who facilitated it.”
“I reminded him that since the final choice was not for me to make, I should not go to Pastor Adeboye until after the announcement of his name.”
While the new book has raised issues of controversies, the author has however, said he did not betray the trust or confidence anyone had in him in his book.
