Are you in wonder as to why Bola Ahmed Tinubu has not thrown his weight behind supporting Major Muahmmadu Buhari in his bid for presidency? To understand this, one needs to know first how Tinubu perceives Buhari.

Having run unsuccessfully on the ANPP in 2003 and 2007, and on the CNPP in 2011, Major Buhari is revving up to go to the polls for the fourth time even though the odds are stacked high and strong against him even within the political party through which he wants to contest for the presidency in 2015.

Some years ago, Tinubu had described General Buhari as a threat to the peaceful existence of Nigeria if given the opportunity to lead. He implied, though subtly, that Babatunde Idiagbon, Buhari’s deputy from December 31, 1983 to August 27, 1985, was the largely responsible for taming Buhari during those years when both men donned the military garb. Indeed, most people saw Idiagbon as the one with the humane face, and it was he that could put a leash on Buhari thus saving the country from what would have been one of the worst dictatorships in the world at the time.

Tinubu, who had just returned to Nigeria in 1983 to work for Mobil Oil Nigeria, having graduated from the Chicago State University in 1979, remembers exactly how the military, under the regime of Major Buhari, made a mess of the infant democracy by toppling the administration of President Shehu Shagari in a coup on the eve of New Year’s day in 1983. The same democracy is what the likes of Bola Tinubu fought relentlessly for even during the dark days of the military administration of Gen. Sani Abacha until democracy was reinstalled as the system for governing the country.
Tinubu noted in a diplomatic cable that was sent discreetly to the United States but leaked by the whistleblowing website, WikiLeaks, that Buhari is “far worse than Obasanjo”.

Tinubu who was then governor of Lagos State warned sternly that voting Buhari as president would spell doom for the country as his “ethnocentrism would jeopardize Nigeria’s unity.”

Tinubu’s grouse with Buhari’s presidential bid is due to the latter’s sympathy for Islamic fundamentalists and his tolerance for Sharia Law in Nigeria. This, according to Tinubu, would spiral the country into complete chaos as Islamic terrorists would pressure and invade Lagos and other southern states so as to foster their Sharia Law in the region if Buhari is elected president.
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Tinubu’s grouse with Buhari’s presidential bid is due to the latter’s sympathy for Islamic fundamentalists and his tolerance for Sharia Law in Nigeria. This, according to Tinubu, would spiral the country into complete chaos as Islamic terrorists would pressure and invade Lagos and other southern states so as to foster their Sharia Law in the region if Buhari is elected president.

Its the Buhari love for sharia that scares most of us.

Tinubu has never liked the idea of Buhari being president. He knows Buhari will turn against him and put him in jail if he is elected. And the idea that Buhari will give the Islamic fundamentalists and sharia people a free hand to operate is another reason why many of us do not want him. Otherwise, he would've been a good president. And he's getting old too! Chai! This looks like an easy ride for Jonathan o. I wish we can get someone better than Jonathan but this APC guys are not producing a good opposition.