A founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former Governor of Osun State, Bisi Akande, has disclosed that he was instrumental in the emergence of Yemi Osinbajo as Vice President.
Akande said he nominated Osinbajo for the position after
consulting with President Bola Tinubu in 2011.
His disclosure runs contrary to widespread claims that
Tinubu personally nominated Osinbajo as the running mate to the late former
President Muhammadu Buhari.
However, Akande recalled that he advised Tinubu to replace
Buhari’s former running mate, Tunde Bakare, with another candidate.
Speaking on Edmund Obilo’s podcast, State Affairs, Akande
said: “I nominated Osinbajo for Vice President after consulting with Tinubu. I
said it the way it is in my book, I said ‘Tinubu, come, in 2011 you were
discussing with Buhari trying to replace Bakare with somebody, who was the
person?’ He said Osinbajo, and I said I was going to recommend Osinbajo, which
I did.”
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