Former Managing Director of Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has said that President Bola Tinubu gave former President Muhammadu Buhari the vital bloc votes that earned him his victory after the 2015 election.
He is responding to the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, who recently said that Tinubu did not make Buhari president.
Speaking via a press statement, Okechukwu revealed that Mustapha was not even in the right position to know what Tinubu did to guarantee Buhari’s victory because he was a member of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, at the time.
According to him, the real fact of the matter is that Tinubu delivered the premium votes that made Buhari president in 2015, and Mustapha was not with the party when Buhari started the presidential race.
He stated that the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation depended on mathematical calculations of votes in 2015 to arrive at his conclusion, and not the actual politics.
“The truism is that President Tinubu laid the premium golden victory votes which made Buhari president in 2015.
May I hereby plead that there is no need for controversy because my friend, Boss Mustapha, should be excused as he was not with us in 2003 when Buhari began the presidential race.
He was in ACN and did not know the water which passed the realpolitik bridge. That is why he relied only on mathematical calculations of votes in 2015 and not on realpolitik,” he wrote.
He further noted that Tinubu’s premium votes were a given the day he personally told Buhari that he was going to support him to be president with all his political structure.
Describing himself as a witness at the time, Okechukwu insisted that delegates of the defunct CPC were actually ordered to negotiate only with the ACN.
He concluded by saying that without Asiwaju’s premium supplementary votes, Buhari would have lost to GEJ.
“I am witness of how this scenario played out when we the delegates of the defunct CPC were instructed to negotiate only with the ACN.
And when we arrived at Chief Tom Ikimi’s Maitama house, we refused to negotiate with ANPP and Co. It took pleadings and adjournments before we all sat together to hatch APC merger in July 2013.
The rest, they say, is history; truly without Asiwaju’s premium supplementary votes, no two third spread and no victory,” he added.
