I cant be Buhari running mate in 2019-Tinubu

Oladimeji Ramon
A national leader of the All
Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu ,
has said there was no truth in the
speculation that he may emerge as
President Muhammadu Buhari’s
running mate for the 2019 presidential
election.
Tinubu described as a “ classic case of
utterly and irredeemably - fake news,”
the report in a national daily (not The
PUNCH) that he was being mooted as
Buhari’s running mate in 2019 to
boost the APC ’s chances in the South -
West.
According to Tinubu ’s media office , it
was speculated in the said report that
Vice- President Yemi Osinbajo, a pastor
with the Redeemed Christian Church of
God, might withdraw from politics in
2019 and return to full church work.
Tinubu ’s media office, however,
described the report as false, insisting
that the former governor of Lagos
State and Nigerians “ have absolute
confidence and are exceedingly proud
of the excellent job that Professor
Osinbajo is doing as Vice - President of
Nigeria. ”
It said , “ There is no empirical or
logical basis for this mischievously
speculative story . Is it even
conceivable, as the story recklessly
insinuates, that Vice- President Yemi
Osinbajo would be considering
returning to full church work rather
than run with his boss , President
Buhari, for a second term if the latter
so decides without as much as
discussing such a sensitive issue with
his party and with Asiwaju Tinubu ?
“ In any case, is this story not entirely
unwarranted and indefensible as the
Buhari/ Osinbajo ticket has an electoral
mandate of four years out of which it
has spent only over two years and a
half years?
“ This is clearly an attempt to distract
the APC Federal Government from the
yeoman ’s job it has been doing in
rescuing the country from the deep -
rooted socio - economic, political,
security and moral mess inherited
from the PDP ’s 16 years misrule of
Nigeria, instigate crisis within the
party, stoke dangerous embers of
religious disaffection within the party
and the country generally and stem
the remarkable progress being made
in the reinvention and revitalisation
of Nigeria .
“ For the avoidance of doubt , Asiwaju
Tinubu has absolute confidence and
faith in both President Buhari and
Vice- President Osinbajo , who have
been working hard harmoniously in
offering inspirational leadership to
Nigeria at a most critical period in her
history . ”