Tinubu planning to be President, says PDP

Presidential Campaign Organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party has
alleged that a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is
plotting to become the President of Nigeria through the back door.
It said the plot by the former governor, who is a stalwart of the main
opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, was to take over as
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the event that Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) wins the March 28, 2015 presidential
election.
Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP-PCO, Chief Femi
Fani-Kayode, made this allegation at a news conference in Abuja on
Friday.
He nevertheless said the campaign team of the PDP-PCO wishes Buhari long life.
Fani-Kayode said skeletal information available to the PDP-PCO
suggests that the Vice Presidential candidate of the APC, Prof Yemi
Osibanjo, was picked by Tinubu and forced to take an oath to resign
his appointment six months into the new cabinet should the APC win the
elections.
The PDP-PCO further alleged that the party would field Tinubu as
Osinbajo's replacement after the alleged resignation.
Fani-Kayode argued that given the huge financial war chest being
deployed by the leader of the party and his overbearing influence at
single-handedly facilitating the emergence of Buhari and Osinbajo as
the party's candidates after allegedly failing to push the
Muslim-Muslim ticket, further lends credence to his claim.
He asked Buhari to watch his back, adding that the alleged gang-up
against him and Nigerians was based on the calculation that his health
conditions would deteriorate and lead to his death, paving way for the
vice president to take over power.
Fani-Kayode said, "It should baffle well-meaning Nigerians why Tinubu
has decided to draft Buhari, despite his age, acrimonious background
and questionable health status, into the presidential race whilst
ensuring that his stooge, Prof Osinbajo, was foisted on the general as
vice presidential candidate.
"The reason is that the PDP-PCO wishes to use this forum to expose the
ungodly plan by Tinubu to seize the presidency of Nigeria by
subterfuge.
"You will recall how Tinubu wanted to be running mate to Buhari in
spite of the nationwide resentment for Muslim-Muslim ticket that he
and Buhari planned to foist on their party.
"Senator Tinubu had justified the ticket by saying that competence was
the important thing and not the issue of religion.
"But when he and Buhari could not push through the agenda within the
APC, he (Tinubu), after being given the opportunity to nominate a vice
presidential candidate, decided to prop up his stooge in the person of
Prof. Osinbajo.
"Now the real reason Tinubu nominated Osinbajo has been made known to
us and we hereby offer a public service to the Nigerian people by
drawing their national attention to it. Credible pieces of information
at our disposal indicate that Tinubu has perfected plans to come to
power through the back door.
"Tinubu, according to our information, has compelled Osinbajo to swear
to an oath that after six months in office, he would resign as the
vice president, in the unlikely event that their party wins. The
wicked plot, as laid out by them, is to force Osinbajo to resign for
Tinubu to be nominated by Buhari as his replacement.
"The ultimate objective of this plot is to ensure that Tinubu becomes
President. The script is simple: given the questionable health of
Buhari, Tinubu, who is desperate to be president for his own selfish
reasons, will simply bid his time in the evil expectation that Buhari
will not be able to go the whole hog.
"How wicked can those that hatched this plan be? How unfair can they
be to the North, to Buhari and to Nigerians? We wish Buhari long life.
Senator Tinubu's dangerous plan is about getting power. This is sad.
No thoroughbred Yoruba man or indeed Nigerian wants to get power
through the misfortune of another person.
"But this is the perfidious path that Tinubu is passing through. This
is repugnant.
"It will interest you to know that our information is strengthened by
the very similar act of resignation which Senator Tinubu had planned
to force on Pastor Tunde Bakare which you can all watch now.
"We will like to show to you some footage that is on Youtube of Pastor
Tunde Bakare's interview where he openly admitted that he refused to
sign a resignation letter that would have seen him hand over his vice
presidential position had Buhari been successful in his presidential
campaign in 2011.
"Becoming the vice president is not the destination but becoming the
president! The agenda of the cabal within the APC is with the
perceived health challenges of Buhari. They have told themselves in
hushed tones that he has prostate cancer, acute asthma and that he
suffers from dementia. This is their assessment and not ours. We do
not know how true this is or what the nature of his illness is and
neither are we interested. All these allegations of ill-health, to the
cabal provide the justification for their evil plan."
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He said the structures around Buhari belong to Tinubu and that the
actors around him, driving his campaign behind the scenes are also
Tinubu's men.
He said, "Most of the covert funding for this campaign comes from
Tinubu's friends outside the country and from Tinubu himself. So if he
becomes President, Buhari will become virtually incapacitated and he
will not be the one running the government. Those behind this plan
would now be waiting for Buhari to pass on. That is what Tinubu wants
to do to the North and to Nigeria.
"This is a wicked and ungodly attempt for Tinubu not only against the
North and the Hausa/Fulani but against the whole country. We are
convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that most Nigerians are not with
this cabal. This is because no sane or rational person would wish
another person evil to actualise his political ambition."
Attempts to get the response from the spokesperson of the APC, Alhaji
Lai Mohammed, were unsuccessful as of the time of filing this report.
Calls to his mobile phone indicated that it was switched off while an
e-mail sent to him had yet to be replied.
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