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Nobody Can Claim Credit For Buhari’s Victory In 2015, Presidency Slams Tinubu

Hamilton Nwosa
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The presidency on Monday said the past should not decide the next general election, noting that what matters today is to elect a candidate that would unite the country better than it has ever been.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, affirmed that no one can or should claim to have single-handedly engineered the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari as President in the 2015 general elections.

The former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, had made some comments last Thursday in Ogun State when he claimed that without him, Buhari would not have emerged as the president in 2015.

However, the President’s spokesman in a statement titled ‘Comment on the statement made by a leading APC flagbearer candidate,’ said 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

He said that as crucial as the 2015 victory was, it is not what should decide the next general election.

The Presidency said “It is perhaps not surprising that on the eve of the All Progressives Congress flagbearer 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.

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