- The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is set to launch his memoirs on the 2015 election
- Tinubu disclosed this on Friday, April 28 in Lagos through his media aide, Tunde Rahman
- The comment was made at the book launch of “Against the Run of Play”, a book authored by veteran journalist, Olusegun Adeniyi
The
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
is set to launch his memoirs on the 2015 election, The Punch reports.
Tinubu
disclosed this on Friday, April 298 in Lagos through his media aide,
Tunde Rahman, who represented him at the book launch of “Against the Run of Play”, a book authored by veteran journalist, Olusegun Adeniyi.
Tinubu
stated that he was working on a book that would detail how his party
removed former President Goodluck Jonathan from office.
Tinubu says he is working on his own memoirs as regards the 2015 elections
The
former governor of Lagos played an instrumental role in the merger of
the Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change and All
Nigeria Peoples Party to form the APC that presented President Muhammadu
Buhari as candidate in 2015.
Buhari
went on to defeat then incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan, in what
became the first power transition from one politcal party to another in
Nigeria's young democracy.
He said people
should not dwell on his loss of the vice-presidential seat but on the
achievements of Osinbajo, whom he had nominated for the position.
His words: “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.
“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.”
Tinubu was instrumental to the APC defeating the then incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan
Meanwhile, a former governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu has revealed why the North opposed Jonathan’s re-election bid in 2015.
Aliyu said the North backed out because Jonathan reneged on his promise to govern for only one term of four years.
Watch this NAIJ.com video of Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido berating Nigerian leaders for their poor performance in recent times.