Ololade Adeyanju/
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo left the battlefield early today as echoes of the name Bola Ahmed Tinubu drowned those of other aspirants when officials began to sort the votes of delegates at the APC Presidential primaries, at the Eagle Square, Abuja.
In the primary election widely adjudged as a free and fair exercise, the ballots being sorted aloud openly left no one in doubt that the day belongs to former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Even before the results were affirmed, the spokesman of the Yemi Osinbajo Campaign Organisation, Mr. Richard Akinnola, sent a congratulatory message to Tinubu.
Akinnola stated in a post on his Facebook page: “Congratulations, Asiwaju Tinubu, the presumed winner of the primaries.
“In any contest, there must be a winner. However, I’m very proud of my choice of support in the person of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
“I have no iota of regret over my support for him. It was a privilege to play a pivotal role for him during the process. I would gladly do it over and over again. It’s a matter of conviction.
“And for all our supporters and other volunteers who worked assiduously, day and night on the PYO project, God bless you all. I’m so proud of all of you.
“As l often say, God rules in the affairs of men and He has a purpose for what just happened.
Understandably, many of you are dispirited and downcast but do not let your heart be troubled. There must be a reason God allowed this. It may not be manifest to us now but later as He is all-knowing.
“I’m unfazed, unbowed, and proud of PYO. Our supporters, abeg, make una shake it off. No be say person die, Life goes on. No yawa,” he wrote.
The Vice-President later returned to Eagle Square as the votes were being counted.
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