{"id":169064,"date":"2025-07-11T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-aided-buhari-in-2015-says-former-ally"},"modified":"2025-07-11T12:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:31:42","slug":"tinubu-aided-buhari-in-2015-says-former-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubu-aided-buhari-in-2015-says-former-ally","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Aided Buhari in 2015 Says Former Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Farouk Aliyu, an erstwhile ally of former President Muhammadu Buhari, has differed with ex-Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha, regarding the role of President Bola Tinubu in Buhari\u2019s 2015 election victory.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyu made this statement on Thursday, when he appeared as a guest on \u2018Politics Today\u2019, a programme on Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>Dismissing Mustapha\u2019s position as inaccurate, Aliyu stressed that while Buhari\u2019s 12 million votes were consistent, they had never been enough to secure a presidential victory until the 2015 alliance with Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>He also alleged that some persons in the Buhari administration are trying to rewrite history despite not being present during the formative and decisive political struggles of the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy senior brother, Boss Mustapha, certainly got it wrong because I can\u2019t even remember where he was at that time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, there are many of these Buhari converts who were not with Buhari. I don\u2019t want to mention names but most of them happened by accident or fate to become what they became, and they are now trying to deconstruct history. It is not true,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The former Buhari\u2019s ally further gave credit to Tinubu for playing a vital role in Buhari\u2019s emergence both as the APC presidential candidate and eventual winner of the 2015 election.<\/p>\n<p>He also recalled serving as the returning officer for Buhari during the APC primary in Lagos that led to Buhari\u2019s emergence as the party\u2019s standard bearer, and he highlighted the behind-the-scenes support that Tinubu provided during that process.<\/p>\n<p>While rejecting claims that Buhari did not repay Tinubu\u2019s support in the lead-up to the 2023 election, Aliyu argued that if Buhari wanted to sabotage the APC\u2019s victory, he had several tools at his disposal to do so, but chose not to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Muhammadu Buhari did not want APC to win the election, he would have done several things to ensure that they don\u2019t win,\u201d he affirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Mustapha, speaking during a book launch in Abuja on Wednesday, had stated that Tinubu did not make Buhari president.<\/p>\n<p>Mustapha said the former president already had an established support base of 12 million votes, and the merger of legacy parties that formed the All Progressives Congress, APC, only added around three million more votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Farouk Aliyu, an erstwhile ally of former President Muhammadu Buhari, has differed with ex-Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha, regarding the role of President Bola Tinubu in Buhari\u2019s 2015 election victory. 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