The presidency says millions of Nigerians elected President
Muhammadu Buhari into office in 2015.
According to the presidency, no single individual can claim
to have been responsible for Buhari becoming president.
The presidency’s comment is in reaction to the remarks of
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a presidential hopeful of the All Progressives Congress
(APC).
While addressing delegates in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital,
on Thursday, Tinubu said Buhari wouldn’t have become president without him.
The former Lagos governor said Buhari had given up on the
prospect of leading Nigeria until he intervened.
In a statement issued on Monday by Garba Shehu, senior
special assistant to Buhari, the presidency said many people played “parts
large and small” in the 2015 election.
The statement reads: “It is perhaps not surprising that on
the eve of the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer primary there are
those running as candidates who wish to associate themselves with the
President’s rise to elected office seven years ago.
“There are many
people who played parts large and small in his historic election in 2015,
making history as the first opposition candidate to defeat a sitting president
with power changing hands peacefully at the ballot box.
“There are those who advised the President to run again;
those who decided to build a political party – the APC – that could finally be
the political vehicle capable of delivering victory where all other opposition
parties and alliances before it had failed.
“Those decisions may have been agreed upon by a few. But
they were delivered by thousands and voted for by tens of millions. No one can
or should claim to have made the possible.
“Yet as important as that moment was, it is not what should
decide the next general election.
“What matters is the
future: the policy platforms, the ideas, the drive, and the determination to
take over the President’s stewardship of our country and build upon his legacy
to make our country better than it has ever been.”
The presidency added that the aspirant who has the
aforementioned qualities “is the one to lead our party and our country
forward”.
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