The Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita
Okechukwu, has claimed that the national leader of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, did not run alongside President Muhammadu
Buhari, as it would have been a Muslim-Muslim ticket.
Okechukwu, who is also a founding member of the defunct
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), one of the political parties that merged
to form the APC, also dismissed speculations of a succession pact between
Buhari and Tinubu.
Speaking with journalists Thursday in Abuja, the VON DG
hailed APC’s leadership for proposing the presentation of a consensus candidate
for the 2023 presidential election.
When asked if there was any specific agreement between the president and Tinubu as Senator Hanga suggested, Okechukwu said: “As a member of the defunct CPC, I never heard of such an agreement and most importantly Mr President is not won’t to, or better put, rarely enters into any formal or informal agreement with anybody. But he appreciates good deeds.
“All I know was that Asiwaju automatically could have been
the Vice President if not for what lawyers will call force majeure. For our
leadership warned against Muslim/Muslim ticket. Our leadership then argued that
the Abiola/Kingibe Muslim/Muslim ticket which worked in 1993 may not work in
2015, if Buhari/Tinubu both Muslims were to run, as the scenario differs. That
was how Asiwaju nominated Professor Yemi Osinbajo, GCON as a replacement.”
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