A founding member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and former Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, VON, Osita Okechukwu, on Thursday, dismissed the claim that President Bola Tinubu outsmarted former president Muhammadu Buhari to emerge president.
Okechukwu’s remark followed claims by former presidential
Special Adviser on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu, that Tinubu outsmarted
Buhari to pick the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential ticket in 2022.
Ojudu said Buhari never supported his then Vice President,
Yemi Osinbajo and Tinubu during the APC presidential primary election.
Reacting, Okechukwu said Ojudu’s so called disclosure was less than factual and misinformation.
In a statement he signed, the former VON DG said the true
position was that “Yes there was split opinion on whether to support Tinubu or
not and Buhari sided with the camp led by then Minister of Education, Malam
Adamu Adamu, quoting the Holy Quran that he cannot ditch the man who stood by
him through thick and thin. Rather let the delegates elect whoever is their
choice at Eagle Square.”
Okechukwu maintained that there was division in Buhari’s
kitchen cabinet immediately after the screening Committee headed by “our former
chairman of APC, His Excellency John Oyegun was submitted. The argument centred
on whether some of the twenty-three presidential aspirants including Tinubu
should be disqualified following a plethora of allegations flying around.”
He said: “The only truth in Ojudu’s statement is that Buhari
didn’t mobilise for any of the twenty-three aspirants not even for Senator
Ahmed Lawan.
“Truly if Buhari was in support of Lawan he could have
disclosed this to the APC Governors Forum who prodded him serially to tell them
who to vote for. It couldn’t have been the then-national chairman of APC,
Senator Abdullahi Adamu to inform only the National Working Committee. The Aso
Villa is the arena for such an important message.”
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