People who were expecting President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Yemi Osinbajo at the Democracy Park in Akure, Ondo State for the 2016 governorship campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were disappointed as they both failed to show up.
The event which was held yesterday, November 10, effectively kicked off at about 11 am and was however attended by some APC governors, federal ministers, and top echelons of the party.
Officials of the campaign kept informing the crowd at the earlier part of the event that the president and his vice were on their way; but as time went on, it was soon clear that they would not be coming.
The publicity secretary of the party in Ondo State, Abayomi Adesanya, said the president and his deputy encountered an emergency situation that they needed to attend to on Thursday.
“The President and the Vice President had an emergency state matter they had to attend to and so could not turn up,” he said.
It was however revealed by PREMIUM TIMES that the Ondo event was never on Mr. Buhari’s schedule.
Mr. Tinubu, the APC’s most influential politician in south-west Nigeria, is opposed to the candidacy of Rotimi Akeredolu, the party’s flag bearer for the November 26 election. He had also publicly accused the APC national chairman of manipulating the party’s primary process in favour of Mr. Akeredolu and against his preferred candidate, Olusegun Abraham, who was also absent from the rally.
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