Buhari never liked Tinubu, wanted northerner to succeed him, says Lamido
By Jeffrey Agbo
Former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has claimed that former President Muhammadu Buhari was not in support of Bola Tinubu’s bid to be president in 2023.
Lamido, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, claimed Buhari favoured a northerner like himself to be his successor.
“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 not alter, not in Nigeria of today,” he said in an interview with Nigerian Tribune on Saturday.
“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, whom he never liked, he never believed in, emerged. Tinubu knows that his victory wasn’t from Buhari, therefore, he owes him nothing.
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“He was not the choice of Afenifere, Obasanjo never liked him, but he became the president. All the other groups, including the governors, were there but he won. He was determined to demolish all obstacles and he crushed them.”
In the build-up to the APC’s presidential primary in 2022, it was rumoured that Buhari favoured former Senate President Ahmad Lawan as his successor.
Lamido noted that the crisis rocking the main opposition party isn’t peculiar to the PDP alone, saying, “It is a Nigerian thing. Whatever is happening in the PDP is happening everywhere else, in government institutions, even in newspaper organisations, wherever you see Nigerians.
“So, the PDP is a Nigerian phenomenon and run by the Nigerian people, not by angels from heaven and, therefore, it is the same spirit whether in the APC or the PDP. Even if you go to the APC, the people you find there are all PDP.”
