{"id":197771,"date":"2026-03-26T23:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/saraki-dimisses-claims-tinubu-betrayed-him"},"modified":"2026-03-27T00:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:14:41","slug":"saraki-dimisses-claims-tinubu-betrayed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/saraki-dimisses-claims-tinubu-betrayed-him","title":{"rendered":"Saraki dimisses claims Tinubu betrayed him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has dismissed claims that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu betrayed him during the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>Saraki made the clarification while speaking on Politics Today, on Channels Television, monitored .<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to questions on whether Tinubu played a role in the political and legal challenges he faced while serving as Senate President, Saraki said it would be unfair to blame the current president.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Tinubu did not have the level of influence many people believed he had within Buhari\u2019s government and was not involved in decisions surrounding the trials he faced at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not fair on President Tinubu. During former President Buhari\u2019s administration, Tinubu didn\u2019t have the say that they claimed he had,\u201d Saraki said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the decisions that led to his prosecution at the Code of Conduct Tribunal and the investigations linked to the Offa robbery incident were not influenced by Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Saraki added that while he served as Senate President, he prioritised what he believed was in the best interest of the country, even though those actions later led to political persecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was doing what I felt was in the interest of the country as the President of the Senate, and for doing those things I was then persecuted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He further stressed that Tinubu was not among those who initiated or implemented the actions that resulted in the Code of Conduct Bureau trial or other allegations brought against him during that period.<\/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. Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has dismissed claims that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu betrayed him during the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari. Saraki made the clarification while speaking on Politics Today, on Channels Television, monitored . Reacting to questions on whether Tinubu played a role in the political and legal challenges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":197770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-197771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saraki dimisses claims Tinubu betrayed him - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has dismissed claims that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu betrayed him during the ad ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/saraki-dimisses-claims-tinubu-betrayed-him\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saraki dimisses claims Tinubu betrayed him\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has dismissed claims that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu betrayed him during the ad ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/saraki-dimisses-claims-tinubu-betrayed-him\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-26T22:07:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-26T23:14:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/03\/sm_1774566803.872809.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"442\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/saraki-dimisses-claims-tinubu-betrayed-him#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/saraki-dimisses-claims-tinubu-betrayed-him\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Saraki dimisses claims Tinubu betrayed him\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-26T22:07:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-26T23:14:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/saraki-dimisses-claims-tinubu-betrayed-him\"},\"wordCount\":271,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/saraki-dimisses-claims-tinubu-betrayed-him#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/03\/sm_1774566803.872809.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/saraki-dimisses-claims-tinubu-betrayed-him#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/saraki-dimisses-claims-tinubu-betrayed-him\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/saraki-dimisses-claims-tinubu-betrayed-him\",\"name\":\"Saraki dimisses claims Tinubu betrayed him - 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