Buhari As A One-Man Majority, Did Not Support Osinbajo, Tinubu – Ex-aide
…Says, Tinubu outsmarted him to emerge president
A former Special Adviser to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matters in the office of the Vice President, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, has revealed the former President Muhammadu Buhari was not interested in having his Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, or the former Lagos State Governor and now President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to become his successor.
Ojudu specifically said former President Buhari acted as a one-man majority when he held sway at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, and refused to mobilise his team towards the emergence of Osinbajo.
The then Special Adviser on political matters to the president, said that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu worked and outsmarted Buhari in so many different ways.
Ojudu, who stated these when he featured on a podcast: “Edmund Obilo’s State Affairs,” broadcast on Monday, also said that going by the permutations taking place then, he knew that Professor Osinbajo was going to loose the party primary.
In the words of Ojudu; “I saw it coming because of the system we operated and still operating. I kept saying at our meetings that all of the efforts we are making like traveling around, convincing people, and addressing delegates, represented only 40 per cent.
“Sixty per cent of it lied in Buhari’s hands except if Buhari mobilised people around him, the governors, his aides, we are going nowhere. Buhari was a one-man majority,” he enthused.
Ojudu said that he supported Prof Osinbajo to emerge as the candidate of the APC and eventually the president because of his attributes which were like those of the late Premier of the Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
He said: “I supported Osinbajo to be president. I was convinced having seen him up close. The way he worked, his philosophy, his breadth of knowledge and the kind of patriotic verve in him.
“I just think that Prof Osinbajo was the best person at that time to govern Nigeria that I have seen up close to be on the part of danger.
“Osinbajo would have been good for this country. For me, it is like losing Awolowo for a second time because he was at Awolowo’s level in terms of capacity, ability, dedication, and commitment,” Ojudu stressed.
