Bola Tinubu, one of Nigeria's All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders has debunked a report which says he was been tipped as running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming 2019 general election as fake news without any iota of truth.
In a statement by Tinubu's media office, the former governor of Lagos State has described the news published by Daily Sun as a “classic case of utterly and irredeemably-fake news.”
In the report, the Sun banner headline reads; "2019: Buhari may pick Tinubu as VP" and claimed that the current vice president Yemi Osinbajo has decided to return to full church work.
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.”
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.”
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