{"id":63719,"date":"2018-08-20T19:42:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T18:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=63719"},"modified":"2018-08-20T19:42:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T18:42:27","slug":"i-have-all-it-takes-to-contest-against-buhari-tambuwal-tells-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/i-have-all-it-takes-to-contest-against-buhari-tambuwal-tells-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have All It takes To Contest Against Buhari, Tambuwal Tells Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m7220372600588220720\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State says he has what it takes to<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">contest against President Muhammadu Buhari for the ticket of the All<br \/>\nProgressives Congress (APC) in next year\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said this in a series of tweets on Monday, one day after the<br \/>\nAPC national leader, Bola Tinubu, accused him of defecting to the Peoples<br \/>\nDemocratic Party (PDP) because he wanted the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIf I wanted to and if the Presidency is what Ahmed Tinubu thinks<br \/>\nI defected, I could contest with President Buhari under the APC. I have<br \/>\nwhat it takes to have contested with Mr President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI adduced reasons of my defection to the PDP. The reasons are still on<br \/>\nrecord. Automatic ticket by the APC is certainly not part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Governor Tambuwal also faulted the claim by the APC chieftain that he left<br \/>\nthe ruling party because it could not give him the automatic ticket he<br \/>\ndemanded.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, he alleged that Tinubu has shown by making such<br \/>\naccusations that the APC lacked a level-playing ground for its members.<\/p>\n<p>Tambuwal said, \u201cIn any case, Tinubu is confessing that there is no<br \/>\nlevel-playing ground for all members of the APC; that there is no internal<br \/>\ndemocracy in it, and that some people were denied their right to internal<br \/>\ndemocracy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTinubu tried to rock the boat when he was denied Buhari\u2019s Vice<br \/>\nPresidency. He thinks every other person could behave his way. If I wanted<br \/>\nto contest under the APC as president, I could have done so and only the<br \/>\nvotes could have produced a winner,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday entitled \u201cThey Go Away Because We Go the Right<br \/>\nWay\u201d, Mr Tinubu alleged that Governor Tambuwal and Senate President Bukola<br \/>\nSaraki left the ruling party because the APC refused to give them<br \/>\nautomatic tickets for the 2019 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The governor defected from the APC on August 1, the following day the<br \/>\nSenate President announced his defection from the ruling party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State says he has what it takes to contest against President Muhammadu Buhari for the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in next year\u2019s&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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