“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.
Mr Abubakar, a retired customs office and Nigeria’s vice-president from 1999 to 2007, won the most votes from the 767 delegates accredited for the convention.
Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, announced this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.
The meeting got underway at about 10:30 p.m., an official said.
The late Assistant Inspector-General of Police will be laid to rest between June 8 to 10 in Makurdi, Benue state.
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers says Peter Obi’s dumping of the Peoples Democratic Party few days before the party’s primary elections.
