Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress, APC,
presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu says he has chosen his running mate.
Tinubu said the name of his running mate had been duly
submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as required
by the law.
He was reacting to remarks by INEC’s Commissioner for
Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, that the idea of placeholder was
alien to the Nigerian constitution.
Following his emergence as APC presidential candidate,
Tinubu had picked Kabiru Masari as his running mate.
But, there are speculations that Masari was a placeholder to
allow APC meet INEC’s deadline for the submission of names picked for the role
of running mate.
However, speaking through his Media Aide, Tunde Rahman,
Tinubu dismissed claims of Masari being a placeholder.
”Without taking issues with the INEC’s National
Commissioner, I just like to state the situation as it relates to the
presidential candidate of the APC, Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“And it is that Asíwájú Tinubu has duly completed his
nomination forms, including giving the particulars of his running mate. He has
returned the completed nomination forms to INEC. He even returned the forms two
days ahead of schedule.
“I don’t know about a placeholder. This is the coinage of
the media. I know he has picked a running mate,” he told Tribune.
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