I rejected Jonathan’s VP offer in interim govt, says Tinubu

I rejected Jonathan’s VP offer in interim govt, says Tinubu

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A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu, said on Thursday that the recent attacks on his person were
because he rejected the offer by President Goodluck Jonathan to
serve as the Vice President in an Interim National Government.
Tinubu said in a statement by his media office that having refused the
offer, Jonathan was looking for ways to take him out either by killing
him or getting him arrested based on trumped up charges.
The former governor of Lagos State said the Peoples Democratic Party
had never been this rattled in its 16 years in power.
He said Jonathan blamed him for the successful merger of the APC
and the momentum the APC presidential candidate, Maj.Gen
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) was gaining.
Tinubu said with the North-West and the South-West- the two most
populous geo-political zones – in the hands, of the APC, it was certain
that the PDP would lose.
“From what can be gathered through informed sources, the PDP and
Jonathan Presidency had recently tried to fracture the APC by offering
Tinubu the position of vice President in an interim government if he
would agree to part company with the popular Buhari. Once Tinubu
rebuffed the offer to participate in the interim scheme, the presidency
decided to change tactics. It would no longer try to entice Tinubu with
sugar but would now move to silence and if necessary neutralise him.
“The APC National leader has caused President Jonathan’s team
countless headaches this campaign season, his declining the interim
government offer is just the latest.”
The former governor said the recent hate documentaries televised
were part of the desperate attempt by Jonathan to discredit him.
But the Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic
Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has
described all these allegations as baseless and false.
Fani-Kayode said: “We are not in the least bit interested in the
formation of an interim government and we are even less interested in
participating in any contraption in which Bola Tinubu would play any
role.”
“It is not true that anyone is trying to frame Tinubu for murder and it
is not true that anyone from our government approached him to be the
Vice President of anything,” Fani-Kayode said.
Fani-Kayode in a statement said, “These allegations are baseless and
false. These people have become prisoners of their own delusions and
they have become victims of their horrific and terrifying