How Tinubu became president against all odds. Buhari didn’t trust Osinbajo and didn’t like Tinubu – Lamido

A former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has described President Bola Tinubu as a very daring and adept politician, who manipulated the country’s political system and became president despite stiff opposition.

According to the former Jigawa state governor, Tinubu “was adept at studying the Nigerian political system, manipulating it. He exploited it and he did it well.”

He said prior to the All Progressives Party, APC, convention, “he (Tinubu) was in Abeokuta, Ogun State, where he boasted that it was his turn to rule Nigeria.

“And Buhari, very naive, was watching. He never liked Tinubu. There was somebody he wanted.

“He didn’t even trust his own vice president, Professor (Yemi) Osinbajo; he wanted Ahmed Lawan, but his calculation was absurd.

“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’t alter, not in Nigeria of today.

“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 that he never liked, he never believed in, emerged.

‘Tinubu owes Buhari nothing’

“Tinubu knows that his victory wasn’t from Buhari, therefore, he owes him nothing.

“He wasn’t the choice of Afenifere, Obasanjo never liked him, but he became president.

“All the other groups, including the governors, were there but he won. He was determined to demolish all obstacles and he crushed them.”