By Ezeocha Nzeh
The Presidency has stated that it was the Nigerian voters, and not any individual that claim to have made President Muhammadu Buhari president in the 2015 general elections.
The presidency, which was reacting to a video outburst by national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and leading presidential aspirant, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, stated in a on Monday that no individual should claim the credit of Buhari’s presidential victory, evena s it warned that no presidential aspirant should think that such credit would be enough to guarantee him or her victory in today’s presidential primary of the APC
Tinubu had during a meeting with APC delegates and stakeholders in Abeokuta, Ogun state, busted out that he was responsible for the actualization of the presidential ambition of Buhari, claiming that he singularly brought him out of political retirement and ensured that he won the 2015 presidential election against a seating government
According to a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the Presidency said the past should not decide the next general election and what matters today is to elect a candidate that would “make our country better than it has ever been.”
The statement titled ‘Comment on the statement made by a leading APC flag bearer candidate.’ Said, “It is perhaps not surprising that on the eve of the All Progressives Congress flag bearer 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.”
“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,” the Presidency added.
