Tinubu May Pitch Fashola as Joker against Osinbajo

Tinubu May Pitch Fashola as Joker against Osinbajo

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Master strategist and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is said to be planning to pitch the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola as his joker against Yemi Osinbajo and all his former ‘boys.’

The plan is said to be Tinubu’s last strategy if his likelihood of clinching the 2023 presidential ticket fails.

Sources close to the politician told Sunday Independent that the former Governor of Lagos State may hand over his structure to Fashola at the dying minutes of the party’s presidential convention.

According to the sources, Tinubu is feeling slighted by the decision of his for­mer followers such as Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State; Pastor Tunde Bakare, for Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun to join the presidential contest.

A source said: “Please, don’t mind these disloyal and disrespectful former ‘boys’ of Asiwaju who are now biting the fingers that fed them.

Asiwaju made them what­ever they think they are now politically. Now, they have the audacity to challenge him to a contest by picking presidential forms instead of allowing him as their ‘Master’ to go for the South West.”

Another source questioned the political capacity of Osinbajo, stressing that the VP has no political structure or popularity to win the election.

Osinbajo has no political structure any­where, be it in Lagos or in the South West. People do not consider Osinbajo as a pol­itician. He is a lawyer and Pastor.

“All the structures in La­gos and South West which all the aspirants are laying claim to belong to Tinubu. All the state APC chairmen in the South West belong to Tinubu’s structure and he has been meeting with them and taking care of them over the years.

The source told Independent that “The governors think that as the party’s leaders in the state’s they control the struc­tures in the state. What they do not know is that the struc­tures they think they control belong to Asiwaju. Asiwaju has been oiling the structures over the years. Very soon, their eyes will clear.”

Reports say that while most of the aspirants continue their plot against him, he may unleash his joker, a plan that is meant to destabilise contenders.

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