Mr Osinbajo and his security aides were joined by other Nigerians to pull the victims from the vehicle, Peoples Gazette learnt.
A lawmaker said the tragic incident was engineered to send a message to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, whose policies have been deemed highly restrictive of nomadic pastoralists.
Mr Tinubu had while meeting APC delegates in Abeokuta said he brought Mr Buhari to power after the Nigerian leader cried on television and vowed not to run for office again.
The incident on Saturday afternoon in Timber Shed neighbourhood came barely three weeks after a mob in Sokoto lynched a Christian student.
The senator, who has been on the campaign trail with Bola Tinubu across the country, said nothing outside a free and fair primary would be acceptable to the campaign.
“When Atiku’s party ganged up against him, and Obasanjo brutalised him, he ran to me for help. It was I who saved him. It is my turn now,” Mr Tinubu told APC members.
The former Anambra governor was not joined in the suit, but the tussle could imperil the faction that nominated him as its presidential candidate last week.
“It was an unintentional turn of phrase in a single interview, the text of which has now been corrected.”
The statement puts to rest speculations that an aggrieved Wike was thinking of defecting to another party to further his presidential ambition.
Her claim provoked Nigerians, who said the European journalist has no knowledge of the Yoruba language and could not have named a struggle she did not experience.
