Bola Tinubu,
national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says he
is working on a book on how his party unseated an incumbent president.
President
Muhammadu Buhari, who was the candidate of the APC defeated former
President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 election.
Tinubu
has been hailed for the role he played in helping the ruling party form
government at the centre.
Speaking
at the launch of ‘Against the Run of Play’, a book by Olusegun Adeniyi, a
renowned journalist, Tinubu said he will soon tell the story of how he moulded
APC to end the 16-year reign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Tunde
Rahman, Tinubu’s media aide, represented him at the programme.
“Some
have said that they will tell their story, Asiwaju is also working on his own
book to tell his account of what transpired,” Rahman said.
“To
tell how he was able to mould the APC to the extent that it was able to unseat
an incumbent president for the first time in the history of our contemporary
politics.”
He
also said his loss of the vice-presidential seat could not be compared to the
achievements of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.
Tinubu
added that he made a good choice nominating Osinbajo as the running mate to
Buhari.
-The Cable
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