Ahmed Kurfi, a top member of the defunct Congress for
Progressives Change (CPC), the party on whose platform President Muhammadu
Buhari contested the 2011 presidential election, has made explosive
revelations.
Kurfi told Sun Newspaper that it was Col. Sambo Dasuki, a
former National Security Adviser (NSA), who introduced Buhari to the then ACN
leader, Bola Tinubu, prior to the poll.
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigerian Peoples
Party (ANPP) and Congress for Progressives Change (CPC), were the parties that
formed the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, elected on the platform
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), appointed Dasuki as NSA on June 22,
2012.
Kurfi revealed that he; Dasuki: Adamu Adamu, incumbent
Minister of Education; Kabir Yusuf, Daily Trust publisher; and Wada Maida,
ex-Chief Executive of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), visited Tinubu in Lagos
before the 2011 general elections.
Kurfi disclosed that he was central to the negotiation of
CPC and ACN which later became APC.
“I was the one who led the team that went to negotiate with
Bola Tinubu,” the former CPC stalwart said.
He stated that APC was a coalition of various interests that
came together to form a political party for the purpose of power.
The politician said looking deeply, Nigerians would find
that the APC “is not a political party because all sorts of various political
interests have come in”.
Kurfi stated that there exists a long-standing ‘grudge’
between Buhari and Dasuki and that it was purely over ‘military matter’.
He declared that Dasuki introduced them to Tinubu “because
they were in exile together when Abacha was after them. Also, Sambo helped
Tinubu’s mother when he was Military Assistant to Babangida”.
Kurfi, ex-CPC Director of Research and Strategy, added that
“Babangida also assisted Buhari with money for his elections.”
He explained that this was during the campaign for Buhari in
the ANPP and that Dasuki initiated the meeting.
Kurfi said the he “was the one who made the arrangements and
when we fly to Lagos. Sambo will make the necessary arrangements. But you know
the military; it’s just like what Adamu Ciroma said in one of his many
interviews”.
“He (Ciroma) said they say Buhari is unforgiving and said
why should he not forgive? He overthrew a democratically elected government and
put Shagari in detention; so if you are removed by the same people you used to
overthrow Shagari why should you complain?”
Kurfi recalled that Dasuki was with them during campaigns
around the country.
He described Dasuki as someone with “a lot of networks. If
you want a detribalized Nigerian that is Sambo. You will see him so comfortable
with every Nigerian regardless of your tribe, religion or whatever.”
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