Lauretta Iochie, former special assistant (SA) of former President Muhammadu Buhari, said that the head of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, did not support Buhari's appearance as a candidate for the congress of all progressives (APC) in 2014.
Buhari, a president of two periods of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023, emerged the first presidential candidate of the APC in 2014 after his formation of a merger mainly by the Nigeria Action Congress (ACN), all parties of the peoples of Nigeria (ANPP), all the great progressive alliations (APGA) and the Congress for progressive change (CPC) in 2013.
Meanwhile, Tribune online The reports that Chief Mustapha, who served under Buhari as secretary of the Government of the Federation (SGF), declared Wednesday that the APC took advantage of Buhari's popularity to snatch the power of the Democratic Party (PDP) of the peoples that then), contrary to the insinuations that made him president.
Mustapha said this in the public presentation of “According to the president: lessons of a presidential spokesman,” written by Garba Shehu, former presidential spokesman for Muhammadu Buhari.
Mustapha, who admitted that the CPC controlled only one state while the APC was formed, said the votes that delivered the victory for the APC came from the CPC and the followers of Buhari.
He said: “The CPC only had one state, but the important votes that gave us the victory came from the CPC.
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“We knew what we did to produce the presidency of Buhari.”
Reacting to the comment, Lauretta Iochie shared a main page of the Nigerian tribe Newspaper with the headline: 'The popularity of Buhari won 12.5 million votes for APC in 2014', through his personnel X on Thursday, praising Chief Mustopha to finish what he described as a “lie” about the appearance of Buhari in 2014.
Supporting the head attributed to Chief Mustapha, the former presidential advisor said that Tinubu did not make the president of Buhari Nigeria, adding that “each lie has an expiration date.”
She said: “Each lie has an expiration date.
“Yesterday, the lie that @Officialabat did the president of @mbuhari, expired
“Thank you, Mustapha Chief, for drilling the lies of those who try without success to rewrite the story
“Me: Tinubu did not even support Buhari's appearance as a candidate in 2014. Fact.”
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