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Sule Lamido, a former governor of Jigawa State, has said ex-President Muhammadu Buhari neither wanted Bola Tinubu nor former Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo as his successor.
Lamido also said Buhari preferred Ahmed Lawan, the ex-Senate President.
According to the chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tinubu became the president because of his daring nature and not because of anybody’s support.
“Prior to the convention, he (Tinubu) was in Abeokuta, Ogun State, where he boasted that it was his turn to rule Nigeria. And Buhari, very naive, was watching. He never liked Tinubu. There was somebody he wanted,” Lamido said in a chat with Tribune.
“He didn’t even trust his own vice president, Professor (Yemi) Osinbajo; he wanted Ahmed Lawan, but his calculation was absurd. You have done eight years for the North and you wanted another Northerner for another eight years?! No. Maybe later but there are some dynamics which you can’t alter, not in Nigeria of today.
“The president of Nigeria, after being in office for eight years, lacked the courage to push through his anointed choice. He was there at the convention and Tinubu that he never liked, he never believed in emerged. Tinubu knows that his victory wasn’t from Buhari, therefore, he owes him nothing,” he said.
Many had speculated that Buhari was instrumental to Tinubu’s emergence as president, which is contrary to Lamido’s claim.
However, some top officials of the Buhari administration took certain steps that were interpreted to be geared towards frustrating Tinubu’s ambition, leading to his popular angry “Emi Lokan” ( it is my turn) outburst.
