The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Public Communications and Orientation, Sunday Dare, has said that former President, Muhammadu Buhari, would not have emerged as President in 2015 if not for Bola Tinubu.
The former Minister of Sports and Youth Development hailed Tinubu’s role in the emergence of Buhari.
Before dislodging the Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government in 2015, Buhari had contested for the presidency in the 2003, 2007 and 2011 elections but failed.
However, prior to the 2015 general elections, a merger of political political parties – Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Tinubu’s Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and some others gave birth to the All Progressives Congress, APC, which later defeated the Peoples Democratic Party.
Dare was on Channels Television’s Politics Today, where he maintained that Buhari’s quest to become President would not have come fruition without Tinubu’s support.
“If you look at the role Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu played in the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari and I can say clearly that without Tinubu’s role in forming the party, making the platform to be there, President Buhari would not have emerged,” he said.
Speaking further, Dare said he was part of the politicians that sold the idea of fielding Buhari as the then-APC presidential candidate.
“It couldn’t have been only me, it was a team. The electoral victories we won in 2015 and the one in 2019 had the writing of President Tinubu. We are a party and beyond me, several other people were also invited,” he stated.
Dare stated that the President should be commended for removing the subsidy on petrol and other reforms aimed at positioning the nation’s economy.
