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Lauretta Onochie, former Special Assistant (SA) to former President Muhammadu Buhari, has claimed that Nigeria’s incumbent President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, did not support Buhari’s emergence as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2014.

Buhari, a two-term president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023, emerged the first presidential candidate of the APC in 2014 following its formation from a merger majorly by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2013.

Meanwhile, Tribune Online reports that Boss Mustapha, who served under Buhari as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), on Wednesday declared that the APC leveraged the popularity of Buhari to snatch power from the then-ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), contrary to insinuations that Tinubu made him President.

Mustapha said this at the public presentation of ” According to The President: Lessons From A Presidential Spokesman Experience,” written by Garba Shehu, former presidential spokesperson to Muhammadu Buhari.

Mustapha, who admitted that the CPC controlled only one state while the APC was being formed, maintained that the votes that delivered victory for the APC came from the CPC and followers of Buhari.

He said, “The CPC had only one state then, but the important votes that gave us victory came from the CPC.

“We knew what we did to produce Buhari’s presidency.”

Reacting to the comment, Lauretta Onochie shared a front page of the Nigerian Tribune Newspaper with the headline: ‘Buhari’s popularity won 12.5 votes for APC in 2014’, via her personal X account on Thursday, praising Boss Mustapha for ending what she described as a “lie” about Buhari’s emergence in 2014.

Supporting the headline attributed to Boss Mustapha, the former presidential adviser said Tinubu did not make Buhari Nigeria’s President, adding that “every lie has an expiry date.”

She said, “Every Lie Has An Expiry Date.

“Yesterday, The Lie That @officialABAT Made @MBuhari President, expired

“Thank you, Boss Mustapha, for puncturing the lies of those unsuccessfully trying to rewrite history

“Me: Tinubu DID NOT even support Buhari’s emergence as Candidate in 2014. Fact.”

9jatriot:
It is like there is a new race and perhaps an award for who can lie the most against Tinubu.

Kai, if I do not support Tinubu for any other thing it is that he has been able to remove food from the mouth of these career politicians who have no other office and business to go to after they complete their terms.

rinzaugustine:
Exactly! Reno just confirmed what you mentioned that tinubu is an incompetent crook 👇

Maxymilliano:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/tinubu-didnt-support-buharis-emergence-as-apc-candidate-lauretta-onochie/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLclkFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE4bUNHdDlnNkUxMEdObEJpAR5c-K8mtaP1EBBHYyiKRQl8c4QVbOnhRn_ukmoMHUsWACSFEyUev4Uia_e67Q_aem_KEL4NJOEyR5iPidmdbnsWg

9jatriot:
You sentence is not complete. I will complete it for you.

"----, when I got there, I found out that he graduated with distinction. Since then I have had no other choice than to start supporting him"

rinzaugustine:
with distinction after he rigged himself to office so as to chop him own filthy corrupt Nigerian national cake ba? hahaha no be only distinction but Agbado cum laude…make una continue corruption and destroying your own country as Ig t there is another one

DeepSight:
These lies are getting a bit too much.

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One thing that is obvious is the CPC people are seriously pained.

I guess now that Buhari has retired they are faced with the uncomfortable truth that they don't (nor ever did) have electoral value and are using style to warm their selves into the heart of their closesest Buhari substitute, Atiku.

On a sidenote though, its interesting to see how APC has fared since it's creation as a merger ( CPC+ACN+ANPP+ nPDP+APGA (Rochas)). Buhari first got rid of most the nPDP with Kawu, Saraki and Atiku. ANPP and APGA factions also died natural deaths during his reign. Now CPC people are being driven to oblivion and irrelevance by Tinubu. Obviously when he leaves, the Northerner that takes control will ensure ACN receive their own share of the medicine

When people say history is important, people will not listen. No coalition or merger in Nigeria has ever lasted from time in memorial, APC & ADC will likely suffer the same fate. Its funny, but in 10 years time it might only be APGA left standing