{"id":129519,"date":"2024-08-31T21:36:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T20:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/buhari-didnt-want-tinubu-as-president-never-trusted-osinbajo-sule-lamido"},"modified":"2024-08-31T22:39:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T21:39:15","slug":"buhari-didnt-want-tinubu-as-president-never-trusted-osinbajo-sule-lamido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-didnt-want-tinubu-as-president-never-trusted-osinbajo-sule-lamido","title":{"rendered":"Buhari didn\u2019t want Tinubu as President, never trusted Osinbajo \u2013 Sule Lamido"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has said former President Muhammadu Buhari never wanted President Bola Tinubu to succeed him.<\/p>\n<p>Lamido also said Buhari never trusted his former Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo to succeed him, adding that the former President wanted ex-Senate President Ahmed Lawan.<\/p>\n<p>Lamido further noted that Tinubu owed his emergence as President to nobody because he was a very daring and self-made man.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Tribune, Lamido said: \u201cPrior to the 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t 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\u2019t alter, not in Nigeria of today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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 knows that his victory wasn\u2019t from Buhari, therefore, he owes him nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the 2015 presidential election, there were insinuations that Buhari was against Tinubu\u2019s emergence as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Some top officials of Buhari\u2019s administration had come up with the redesign of the naira and caused artificial fuel scarcity in a bid to stop Nigerians from voting for Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Aggrieved by the move, Tinubu had during one of his campaigns declared \u201cEmi Lokan,\u201d meaning its my turn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has said former President Muhammadu Buhari never wanted President Bola Tinubu to succeed him. Lamido also said Buhari never trusted his former Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo to succeed him, adding that the former President wanted ex-Senate President Ahmed Lawan. 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