How I Outsmarted APC NWC To Deliver Tinubu As President, Omisore Boasted

Iyiola Omisore, immediate-past national secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has boasted on how he outsmarted the National Working Committee of the party to work for President Bola Tinubu to become the party’s presidential candidate.

Speaking during a programme on Channels Television, Omisore said he outsmarted all those who were trying to have a presidential candidate from their zones.

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“In politics, everybody has their mindsets. We came from different (geopolitical) zones to the NWC that time, representing different interests,” Omisore said.

“I was the most senior member of the party in the south-west and my mandate was to deliver the south-west for the presidency.

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“Somebody from south-south too, his own mandate was to deliver south for the presidency. I want to assume so.

“So, my own way was to get to my destination which I have gotten to today. The way and manner I did my journey is between me and God.

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“I can’t castigate anybody who tried to be smart but if you want to be smart and I outsmarted you, to God be the glory. But the point is that my mission was to deliver the south-west presidency which we are today.”

Omisore said though different people in the national working committee (NWC) had candidates they wanted to become flag bearer, they were still able to present a democratic convention.

“We voted. Everybody had a choice and it was transparent,” he said.

“The moment there is a transparent primary, there won’t be noise; it is only when people feel cheated that they go to court.”