"It is my turn! - Tinubu

 Presidential aspirant and national leader of the All Progressives Congress,  Asiwaju Bola  Tinubu, has opened up on his role in the emergence of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) as the President in 2015.

The former Lagos State governor, while addressing the Ogun State APC delegates at the Presidential Lodge, Abeokuta, said  Buhari,  after losing   2003, 2007 and 2011 presidential elections,  vowed not to contest again.

Tinubu, however said he went to Katsina to persuade Buhari to contest and subsequently supported him to win in 2015.

Tinubu also took a swipe at one of his fellow presidential aspirants in the APC, the Vice-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, saying he equally nominated him as Buhari’s running mate.

Tinubu said without him, Dapo Abiodun would not have been elected governor of Ogun State in 2019.

The national leader was accompanied by the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo – Olu; his Kano counterpart, Umar Ganduje and former Borno State Governor, Kasim Shettima.

Buhari, who was Nigeria’s military Head of State between 1983 and 1984, first contested the Presidency on the platform of the defunct All Peoples Party in 2003 and lost to the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

In 2007, he lost to another PDP candidate, the late Umaru Yar’Adua. In 2011, he formed a new party, the Congress for Progressives Change, contested on its platform but lost to Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP.

In 2014, four political parties, the CPC, the Action Congress of Nigeria, the All Nigeria Peoples Party and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, merged to form the APC on whose platform Buhari contested and finally won 2015 the presidential election.However, there has been tension in the APC since Tuesday when President Buhari said he would pick his successor.

Also, there are indications that the party may settle for an aspirant picked by Buhari and may not go for an indirect primary at its convention starting on Monday.

Speaking on why he is the best choice among other aspirants in the South-West, Tinubu said, “It is my time, I’m educated, I’m experienced. I have been serving you people for a long time,

bring me the presidency, it is my turn.