Spokesperson to former President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has said that there is no rift between his principal and President Bola Tinubu.
He recently revealed that rumours of a fractured relationship between the two leaders are not true.
Speaking during an interview with Trust TV, Shehu revealed that Buhari is still committed to the All Progressives Congress, APC, and he remains grateful to the party for giving him the platform to run for a presidential election and win.
According to him, Buhari has always described himself as a man who will never be ungrateful, so there is no way he’ll turn his back on a party that helped him serve 2 terms as president anytime soon.
“When people are entitled to hold their opinion, and your interpretation of it is purely your entitlement.
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.
For Muhammadu Buhari, for him, he’s essentially an APC member.
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 learned from him—‘I will never be ungrateful. I will never betray the party that gave me two terms in office,” he said.
Reacting to reports about tensions within the ruling party, Shehu noted that Buhari’s camp is not disturbed by such speculation.
He declared that those who witnessed the effort it took to build the APC in 2014 will not do anything to undermine the party’s stability now.
Garba concluded by saying that it took a lot of energy and sacrifice to build the ruling party 11 years ago, and those who saw the work that was put in back in will not open their eyes and watch it all go to waste.
“We see statements; we read them when people say these things. Do we get disturbed? I don’t think that is the word.
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.
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,” he added.
