Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that he ‘poured out his mind’ during a recent visit to Abeokuta, Ogun State, due to “gang up” against him.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Tinubu had last month, while addressing APC delegates in Ogun State ahead of the ruling party’s presidential primary election in Abuja, recounted how he helped to make Muhammadu Buhari president in 2015.
“If not for me that stood behind Buhari he wouldn’t have become the president,” said Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State.
“He tried the first time, he failed, the second time, he failed, the third, he failed, he even wept on national television and vowed never to contest again but I went to meet him in Kaduna and told him he will run again, I will stand by you and you will win, but you must not joke with Yorubas and he agreed.
“Since he became the president, I have never got ministerial slots, I didn’t collect any contract, I have never begged for anything from him, it is the turn of Yoruba, it is my turn.”
Those comments elicited strong reactions on social media, with the APC hierarchy threatening to sanction him.
Speaking after returning to Lagos on Sunday, Tinubu shed light on what prompted him to speak in that manner in Abeokuta.
“The battle to secure the APC ticket was hard. When I was almost fed up, I resorted to prayers. I also poured out my mind when I felt there was a gang up against my person. Thank God that I have brought home the presidential ticket,” Tinubu was quoted as saying in a statement by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s spokesman, Gboyega Akosile.
