“How Tinubu helped Buhari become president” — Sunday Dare

The Special Adviser to the President on Public Communications and Orientation, Sunday Dare, has expressed his admiration for President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

Dare revealed that Tinubu’s strategic leadership and unwavering support were pivotal in shaping Buhari’s path to the presidency in 2015.

Sunday Dare

GistReel reports that before successfully dislodging the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led Federal Government in 2015, Muhammadu Buhari faced several challenges in his political journey, having run unsuccessfully for the presidency in the elections of 2003, 2007, and 2011.

It finally took talks and a political merger between Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Tinubu’s Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN) and some other parties to birth the All Progressives Congress (APC) which later won the 2015 presidential election.

Speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Dare said Buhari wouldn’t have won the election without Tinubu’s support.

“If you look at the role Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu played in the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari and I can say clearly that without Tinubu’s role in forming the party, making the platform to be there, President Buhari would not have emerged,” he said

When asked if he sold the idea of fielding Buhari as the then-APC presidential candidate, the former minister replied in the affirmative.

“It couldn’t have been only me, it was a team. The electoral victories we won in 2015 and the one in 2019 had the writing of President Tinubu. We are a party and beyond me, several other people were also invited,” he stated.