How Obasanjo Truncated Tinubu s Ambition To Become Buhari s VP – Oyinlola
He said after Obasanjo s intervention succeeded in changing the decision, some people started spreading the news that Obasanjo frustrated the plan to make Tinubu the vice-presidential candidate.
by Saharareporters, New York
Jan 30, 2021
A former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has revealed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo truncated the ambition of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to become the running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari, who was the APC presidential candidate in 2015.
Oyinlola explained that even though Obasanjo was the last person to throw his weight behind Buhari s candidature, having opposed the re-election of the then President, Goodluck Jonathan, he was eventually prevailed upon to support the former military ruler.
How Tinubu Stopped Sunday Igboho From Disrupting Ekiti Governorship Rerun Election In 2009 Buhari’s Aide, Ojudu
Igboho has been in the news in the past weeks after he gave an ultimatum to herdsmen in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State to leave within seven days, blaming the leadership of the Fulani for being behind the rising insecurity in the state.
by Saharareporters, New York
Jan 26, 2021
Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu, has narrated how a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, persuaded Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, not to disrupt the 2009 governorship rerun election in Ekiti State.
What Tinubu Told Me At His Bourdillon Residence – Sunday Igboho
He also refuted the claims that he made his wealth from thuggery, saying that Tinubu gave him a sum of N2 million naira after the meeting.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Jan 26, 2021
A Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has said that his meeting with the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, some years back had to do with the Ondo State governorship election.
Sunday Igboho revealed this to the Publisher of the Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, during an Instagram Live Chat on Tuesday.
But Speaking on Tuesday, Igboho urged Ojodu to stop peddling falsehood against him, otherwise, he would take legal action against him.
Ojudu had, in a post that went viral on the social media, narrated how a former governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, held a secret meeting with Igboho in 2009 ahead of the rerun-election that brought in Dr. Kayode Fayemi as Ekiti State governor.
Ojudu stated that Igboho told Tinubu that he had been paid by the PDP to disrupt the re-run governorship poll.
The presidential aide also said Igboho agreed to meet with them on the condition that the late strongman of Ibadan politics, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, who died in 2008, must not know about the meeting.
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