Why I opposed Tinubu’s candidacy as Buhari’s VP in 2015 — Saraki

Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has responded to a recent outburst by the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) claiming Saraki worked against a Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2015 to clinch the Senate president seat.

The ex-governor of Kwara in his response to the APC presidential aspirant (Tinubu) said he opposed such a move “in national interest”.

Tinubu has claimed “when we finished building the party after we brought in people from the PDP, Saraki now saw that those from the PDP will not get anything if Buhari, a Muslim becomes the president and me, also a Muslim becomes his vice, he won’t get the senate president and the senate president cannot also be a Muslim, that was how they started the campaign of calumny against me”.

Reacting in a statement by the Head of his Media Office, Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki said; “When I and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress in 2014 stood against having a Muslim-Muslim ticket, it was not a decision targeted at any individual or group but one taken in the national interest.

“Asiwaju knows this and he is just being mischievous by presenting this decision as something aimed at stopping his ambition.”