Up till last week, not only did Tinubu seem to have been denied even the basic courtesies due his contribution, an influential block in the Presidency
linked to the President’s cousin, Mamman Daura; and Buhari’s Private Secretary Sabiu Tunde Yusuf, was determined to block the party leader from even contesting after he had been cleared by the screening committee.

When Tinubu mentioned his age during the screening, he was sneered at by a certain member of the committee with
whom he had fallen out spectacularly.


Twenty-four hours to the primary, Sabiu Tunde Yusuf was still frantically pushing the Lawan consensus candidacy, telling the executioners on his side to “insist on party supremacy or nothing.” They were all over the place till the last minute.

But that plot, which collapsed almost as quickly as it was made, was actually Plan B. The original
plan was to extract firm promises from the 23 aspirants that they would accept a consensus candidate, and then wangle former President Goodluck
Jonathan through the back door on a freeload.

Tinubu’s refusal to accept a consensus
candidate thwarted this plan. It left Jonathan flitting from one country to the other on contrived visits
and then finally hovering around the screening venue in the vain hope that he might get a
much-sought-after guarantee, and be called in for coronation.

Buhari, master of the politics of strategic ambivalence, gave the impression that he belonged to everyone and yet not belonging to anyone. Aso Rock emissaries to Tinubu returned with mixed messages, one of which was that Tinubu would only step down if Buhari

told him to do so himself – a risk the President was unwilling to take.

Read on

https://gazettengr.com/azu-ishiekwene-morning-after-analysis-of-bola-tinubus-apc-primary-triumph/

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I doubt if buhari would want to tell bola ahmed to step, na hooge insult. The president seem to be neutral but trust nobody.