I’ll Reveal How Jonathan Was Voted Out In My Book, Says Tinubu

By Ganiyat Ganiyu

Abuja, (An24) – The National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has revealed that he working on a book on how his party unseated an incumbent president.

Recall that in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari, who was the candidate of the APC defeated PDP candidate and former President Goodluck Jonathan during the Presidential election.

Tinubu who made this comment while speaking at the launch of ‘Against the Run of Play’, a book by Olusegun Adeniyi, a renowned journalist, said he will soon tell the story of how he molded APC to end the 16-year reign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The APC National leader said this through his media aide, Tunde Rahman who represented him at the programme.

Speaking at the launch of ‘Against the Run of Play’, a book by Olusegun Adeniyi, a renowned journalist, Tinubu said he will soon tell the story of how he molded APC to end the 16-year reign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

According to him, “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,” Rahman said.

“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.” Rahman said.

Speaking further, Tinubu noted that his loss of the vice-presidential seat could not be compared to the achievements of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, adding that he made a good choice nominating Osinbajo as the running mate to Buhari.

Recall that on Thursday, newspaper which had advanced copies of Adeniyi’s book, had reported how Tinubu accused Senate President Bukola Saraki and Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, of working against his emergence as Buhari’s running mate.