Former Chief of Workers to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, has stated Buhari didn’t imagine in anointing a successor forward of the 2023 presidential election.
Gambari said this on Monday throughout an interview on Channels Tv’s Politics Right now, whereas responding to claims that Buhari allegedly misled former Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, to contest the presidency with out being sincere about his most popular candidate.
“He (Buhari) didn’t really feel that he ought to have anointed candidate,” Gambari stated.
He defined that the previous president made his place clear when 19 northern governors visited him after agreeing that energy ought to shift to the South.
“The 19 northern state governors got here to Buhari after they’d made a declaration that the following president of Nigeria ought to come from the South and so they signed it,” he stated.
In keeping with Gambari, the governors requested a gathering with Buhari to seek out out if he had already chosen a successor.
“They now stated they wished to see the President. And after I instructed him, and I stated, they need to see you, he stated what about? I stated, they need to know whether or not you’ve gotten an anointed candidate. You might be their chief,” he stated.
Gambari stated he was current on the assembly and will solely communicate to what he personally witnessed.
“I used to be at that assembly, and I wish to discuss what I do know, and they’re all witnesses,” he added.
He stated he personally relayed the governors’ query to Buhari.
“They got here. And I went to inform him, your friends are right here. They need to know, do you’ve gotten an anointed candidate for president and for the get together nomination? And I stated, by the best way, I personally as your Chief of Workers, I wish to know,” Gambari stated.
He disclosed that Buhari’s response was direct.
“And he stated, I don’t have an anointed candidate for president to be a successor. And I instructed him, effectively, you must inform them. And he instructed them, that’s what I do know now,” he stated.
Gambari, nonetheless, stated he couldn’t discuss any non-public conversations Buhari might need had with people after the assembly.
“After all, folks can have interpretation of what he instructed them in non-public. I’m not aware of that, however clearly what he stated on report that I, with the 19 northern state governors being there, is what I knew,” he added.
In June 2022, Amaechi and Osinbajo misplaced the presidential main of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the chief of the get together and former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who finally gained the presidential election in 2023, defeating former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Occasion and former Governor of Anambra, Peter Obi of the Labour Occasion.
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