2. The vice-presidential rumour
One of the issues troubling the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is the choice of a presidential candidate and his running mate. The party has often been accused of pushing a Muslim-Muslim ticket, with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the running mate to whoever emerges in the north. It was permutations towards avoiding this scenario that have thrown up the possibility of a southern Christian being running mate. One of the names that regularly features is Fayemi. This was not welcome in the corridors of APC powers, neither did it help Fayemi’s re-election bid. The massive support he would have received from Lagos for his re-election bid diminished and vanished, although he was also said to have failed to “lubricate” the relationship in the last four years. “He failed to understand that somebody spent money, time and energy to make him governor in the first place,” an APC stalwart told TheCable two weeks before the election.
