Bola Tinubu, a presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), has revealed, on Thursday, June 2, that President Muhammadu Buhari would not have won the 2015 election without his support.
Tinubu made this disclosure while addressing party delegates at the Presidential Lodge in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
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He said;
If not for me that stood behind Buhari, he wouldn’t have become the President. He tried the first time, he failed. The second time, he failed. The third, he failed.
He even wept on national television and vowed never to contest again but I went to meet him in Kaduna and told him he will run again, I will stand by you and you will win, but you must not joke with Yorubas and he agreed.
Buhari has not benefited him in any way since he became President, according to the former governor of Lagos State.
Since he became the President, I have never gotten ministerial slots.
I didn’t collect any contract, I have never begged for anything from him. It is the turn of Yoruba, it is my turn.
Earlier in the week, Senator Tinubu appeared before the party’s John Odigie-Oyegun-led seven-man Presidential Screening Committee.
According to a statement issued by Bayo Onanuga, Director-General Tinubu Campaign Organisation on Monday, May 30; the former two-term Lagos State governor answered questions bordering on his upbringing, and educational and professional background at the screening.
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Onanuga said Tinubu, who is also one of the leaders of the APC, told the panel why he is qualified to fly the flag of the APC as its 2023 presidential candidate.
The statement reads;
He cited his success as governor of Lagos State, his raising the internal revenue generation of the state from a paltry N600 million monthly, which has now grown to N51 billion today.
He also cited his invitation to Enron to begin the first state-backed power generation in Nigeria and how Nigeria will need to take the power transmission lines as a highway.
Tinubu in his answers demonstrated vast knowledge in economic management and a perfect understanding of Nigeria’s political economy.
