Since I Stepped Down For Osinbajo, Tinubu Has Refused To Contact Me – Aspirant

A extinct presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Nicholas Felix has mentioned that the flag bearer of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has shut him out of his campaign.

The young aspirant explained that Tinubu shunned him since he stepped down for Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo in the presidential primaries at Eagle Sq. three weeks previously.

Sooner than Felix withdrew from the presidential trek he described Yemi Osinbajo as the handiest man for the job insisting that he believed Osinbajo could perchance maybe well flip the country round positively.

Opposite to his expectation, the APC nationwide chief defeated Osinbajo, extinct Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and 11 a bunch of aspirants to clinch the party’s sole presidential tag.

He mentioned: “Asiwaju has no longer reached out to me. Neither has any member of his campaign team. No person has known as me. I’m about the handiest candidate Asiwaju has but to meet. I don’t know the cause. Perchance it used to be because I stepped down for the vice president or didn’t enhance the postulate of a imaginable Muslim-Muslim tag.”

When Punch correspondent contacted Tinubu Marketing campaign Organisation, Bayo Onanuga, he mentioned: “Unfortunately, all individuals knows Asiwaju is no longer in city. Nonetheless Nigerians are conscious of how he visited your total aspirants after the essential. Perchance (he) used to be no longer in city. Perchance he used to be in The US or somewhere. I don’t wish to join disorders with him.

“If Asiwaju has no longer reached out to him as he mentioned, I’m definite by the purpose he returns from France, he’ll quilt up no matter gaps exist. I don’t desire us to make a choice up dragged into that. It will seemingly be even an oversight. As a flesh presser, he doesn’t neglect any one or see other folks as no longer being crucial. I’m definite it wasn’t a deliberate act or hidden agenda on his segment. All individuals is excessive to him.”