Millions of Nigerians made Buhari President not an individual – Presidency
The Presidency has reacted to recent comments made by a presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, where he claimed that he played a major role in the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as the President of Nigeria.
In a statement, Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu said Millions of Nigeirans voted for the President therefore, no one can claim he did it alone.
According to Shehu: “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 this possible.”
Shehu said what happened in 2015 should not be the deciding factor for the outcome of next year’s general election.
“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 person most demonstrable in those qualities is the one to lead our party and our country forward,” he said.
A video had gone viral last week, from a meeting of Bola Tinubu with APC delegates in Ogun State, where he made the remark, saying he played a great role in making the Nigerian leader emerge victorious at the polls but later said he was quoted out of context.
