Snubbing Tinubu, Osinbajo Reveals How Amosun, Aregbesola Took Him To Buhari

In remarks that would further deepen the cold war with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has opened up on how he first got to meet Muhammadu Buhari through Senator Ibikunle Amosun and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.

Opening up on how he first got to know that he had been nominated as Buhari’s running mate for the 2015 presidential election, Osinbajo said that it was Aregbesola who first informed him that he had been nominated as the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that until now that Tinubu had been largely credited with single handedly placing Osinbajo in the seat of Vice-Presdent.

Speaking while hosting members of the State House Press Corps to the Ramadan breaking of fast on Wednesday, Osinbajo said he was preparing for a case at the Peniel Apartments in Abuja when Aregbesola called him sometime around 1.00 a.m. on December 18, 2014.

“I was working on the case at Peniel Apartments in Abuja on December 18, 2014, when at about 1:00 am in the morning, I received a call from Rauf Aregbesola that they were coming to Lagos to pick me,” Premium Times quoted the number two citizen as saying.

“I said I was in Abuja. He said ‘good because you have been nominated as the vice-presidential candidate’ and I said that’s how you nominate people?”

According to Osinbajo, Aregbesola and Amosun who was at that time governor of Ogun state, then took him to meet with Buhari who was APC’s candidate at the time.

He said that very few people in the country had the kind of experience that he has which has prepared him to contest for the office of president.

Osinbajo like Amosun and Aregbesola have all separated from the Tinubu camp. He is also expected to battle with Amosun for the APC presidential ticket..

GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that Osinbajo served for two terms in the Tinubu cabinet as attorney general and commissioner for justice between 1999 and 2007.

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