Garba Shehu, spokesperson to former President Muhammadu Buhari, says there is no rift between his principal and President Bola Tinubu.
Speaking on Trust TV’s 30 Minutes, Shehu said claims of a
fractured relationship between both leaders are speculative and not backed by
any formal disagreement.
“When people are entitled to hold their own opinion, and
your own interpretation of it is purely your own entitlement,” he said.
“I don’t think in a formal and official sense anybody would talk about distrust or mistrust or a façade between the Buhari administration and the Tinubu administration.”
Shehu said Buhari remains committed to the All Progressives
Congress (APC), which brought him to power after three unsuccessful attempts.
“For Muhammadu Buhari, for him, he’s essentially an APC
member,” he said.
“He does not forget the fact that he ran one, two, three
times and failed to get the presidency until they cobbled together the APC.
“APC came together and gave him two terms, for which he has
remained grateful, and says—and that’s what I’ve learnt from him—‘I will never
be ungrateful. I will never betray the party that gave me two terms in office.”
Responding to public commentary on tensions within the
ruling party, Shehu said Buhari’s camp is not disturbed by such speculation.
“We see statements; we read them when people say these
things. Do we get disturbed? I don’t think that is the word,” he said.
He added that those who witnessed the effort it took to
build the APC in 2014 are unlikely to undermine the party’s stability now.
“It took a lot of doing, energy, and sacrifice for the APC
to have been put in place, for the desperate opposition elements to come
together,” he said.
“They tried one, two, three times, and they failed. But by
this time, they came together in 2014, formed a party, and ran in 2014. They
won.
“Which means, in effect, that the people who were around,
who saw how much sweat it took to build this coalition—I think they are not
likely to be the ones who are trying to fracture it.”
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