My speech not to denigrate Buhari, North – Tinubu
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and a frontline presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, has said he did not attack President Muhammadu Buhari or the North in his speech at Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Thursday.
He made the clarification against the backdrop of widespread criticism of the speech.
Tinubu said the speech was not disrespectful to Buhari or the North but it was laying bare his contribution to the party which should count in his favour.
A statement signed by the Director, Media and Communications, Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organisation, Bayo Onanuga, on Friday said, no time did Tinubu play any ethnic card or denigrate any ethnic group as being alleged.
Tinubu had, among other things, said it “was Yoruba’s turn, it’s my turn” to be president, while wooing delegates in Abeokuta.
He also told his audience that he was instrumental to the emergence of Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun.