The claim by Mamman Daura that when former President Olusegun Obasanjo was selected "as PDP candidate, a group of women and youths in the PDP lobbied Obasanjo to pick Malam Abba Kyari as his vice presidential running mate" has been rubbished by an authority on Nigeria's presidency, Tony Eluemunor.
AllNews recalls that Daura, a nephew to President Buhari, recently disclosed that Abba Kyari was recommended as running mate to Obasanjo when Nigeria returned to democracy, adding that "Malam Abba was among those enthusiastically espousing the cause of General Obasanjo”. This disclosure was made in a tribute mourning Kyari's death. 
Eluemunor has now come out to puncture the claim...

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