Boss Mustapha, a Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), has disclosed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu didn’t singlehandedly make Gen. Muhammadu Buhari President in 2015.
Speaking at Mustapha at the Yar’adua Centre in Abuja on Wednesday, during the public presentation of a book, “According to the President: Lessons from a Presidential Spokesperson’s Experience”, written by former Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, Mustapha said Tinubu didn’t singlehandedly make Buhari President, stressing that the his emergence can be attributed to the effort of top APC leaders as well as Buhari’s integrity and discipline
He said, “I have been there from the days of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), through the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and which eventually metamorphosed into the APC. I have served for over 25 years and helped achieve their political ambitions.
He said in early 2013, as leader of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Buhari had formally requested and supported the creation of a CPC merger committee, part of a broader coalition-building process which brought together the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) faction, and elements of the ruling party through the breakaway “new PDP
Mustapha added Tinubu is only dwelling on the Legacy already laid by Buhari before leaving office, sated that some of the reforms embarked upon by the Tinubu administration including the tax reforms were started by the Buhari administration.
The former SGF further said, “For us in the ACN, I do not intend to stir any controversy, but I will make bold to state this, that the merger in 2013 was midwifed to present a Buhari or create a Buhari Presidency because we looked at the statistics of the votes that were coming to the table.
“In the 2003 election, it was the Obasanjo/Buhari presidential contest where Buhari recorded 2.7 million votes. In the next election, he got 12.7 million votes. In 2007, it came to 6.6 million, it went back to 12.2 million in 2011.
Tinubu had during his visit to Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on June 1, 2022, to seek the support of delegates ahead of the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said Buhari wouldn’t have become president if not because of him.
Ex- SGF knocks Tinubu, says he didn’t made Buhari President
