“If not for me that stood behind Buhari, he wouldn’t have become the President,” a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and presidential aspirant, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, recalled while addressing party delegates at the Presidential Lodge in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Tinubu and some presidential aspirants are not comfortable with President Buhari’s position pressuring governors and party stakeholders to allow him choose his successor.
The President is due to vacate office on May 29, 2023 when he would have completed his second term in office.
“If not for me that stood behind Buhari, he wouldn’t have become the President. He tried the first time, he failed.
“The second time, he failed. The third, he failed,” Tinubu, one of the frontline aspirants for the APC presidential ticket.
“He even wept on national television and vowed never to contest again but I went to meet him in Kaduna and told him he will run again, I will stand by you and you will win, but you must not joke with Yorubas and he agreed,” Tinubu recalled.
He also said he has not been patronizing President Buahri since his assumption of office in 2015, saying “Since he became the President, I have never gotten ministerial slots.
“I didn’t collect any contract, I have never begged for anything from him. It is the turn of Yoruba, it is my turn.”
