{"id":4932,"date":"2015-05-11T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2015-05-11T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:51:00","slug":"the-silent-war-between-buhari-tinubu-who-blinks-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4932","title":{"rendered":"The silent war between Buhari, Tinubu. Who blinks first?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Musa Abdullahi<\/p>\n

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, well known as the \u2018Jagaban of Bourdillon\u2019 and widely reported as the Machiavelli of Nigeria by the Financial Times for sealing the deal for Nigeria\u2019s President-elect Muhammadu Buhari doesn\u2019t seem too happy shortly after the elections.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what we know according to sources from both sides, before the merger and throughout the elections, Bola Tinubu has been the one deciding for the South-West, from the nomination of Yemi Osibanjo,Nigeria\u2019s Vice President-elect, to the election of John Oyegun, the party National Chairman.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the Lagos TV complex, Agidingbi while marking Fashola\u2019s 2,900th day in office, openly partisan Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu and a close friend to Bola Tinub, hinted on the fight between the Tinubu and the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n

He said,\u201cPeople, who are now telling Buhari all sorts of things, are sycophants. They did not want Buhari to emerge winner in the election. These people know themselves. When it gets to a stage, I will name them one after the other. I am not afraid of human beings,\u201d Akiolu explained.<\/p>\n

Tinubu and Governor Rotimi Amaechi, the Rivers man who is widely reported to have funded the Buhari campaign don\u2019t see eye-t0-eye, just to give our readers an understanding of what\u2019s been going on.<\/p>\n

After General Buhari was declared winner of the polls, that\u2019s when he started avoiding Tinubu but opted for Ibukunle Amosun, the Ogun State governor.<\/p>\n

A Chieftain of the party hinted NewsWireNGR, \u201cClose allies to the General insists that if he must maintain his corruption free credentials, avoiding Tinubu will be the best decision, secondly, reducing his influence (Tinubu) will give him an opportunity to choose members of his team\u201d.<\/p>\n

Amosun has been a long time friend of Buhari in the South-West, recall that Amosun was a former member and senator with the All Nigeria\u2019s Peoples Party, (ANPP) same platform with Buhari in the past, so the union didn\u2019t start today.<\/p>\n

Though governor Amosun left for the Action Congress of Nigeria and is widely seen as one of Tinubu\u2019s governor\u2019s, \u201creality is that, Amosun is one of those governors that aren\u2019t loyal to Tinubu as many have made it seem\u201d, a source tells NewsWireNGR.<\/p>\n

The face-off between Tinubu and Buhari became obvious when the President-elect approved the final lists for candidates of the 19 member transition committee, to Tinubu\u2019s surprise, only one of his nominee made the lists and was neither a Chairman or deputy Chair.<\/p>\n

\u201cTinubu expected his candidate, Mr Wale Edun to have been chairman or deputy chairman, but that didn\u2019t happen as General Buhari also asked Amosun to send in names which gave room for the appointment of Mrs Nike Aboderin\u201d. A source within the Tinubu camp tells NewsWireNGR.<\/p>\n

The source who doesn\u2019t want to be mentioned said, \u201cSome of us are asking where was the 85-year-old Malam Ahmed Joda before now? How can we have a committee with a serious task and a man as old as Joda is expected to cross the T\u2019s and Dots the I\u2019s to do the job well\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Wale Salami, is widely believed to have been appointed by Tunde Fashola and not Tinubu .<\/p>\n

\u201cGeneral Buhari didn\u2019t depend on Tinubu for the South-West slots and that\u2019s where the problem is emanating from, he went on to ask Amosun and Fashola, and for someone like Tinubu, that\u2019s an insult to bring in representatives from the South-West region through a different channel\u201d. A party member, Shamsudeen Usman, privileged to the information tells NewsWireNGR.<\/p>\n

Mrs Nike Aboderin the candidate that made the Buhari committee lists, shocked Tinubu. Aboderin was nominated by governor Amosun, she worked as the Senior Special Adviser on trade and investment as well as an economic adviser to the governor\u2026<\/p>\n

Shamsudeen continued, \u201cThe entire south-west just contributed about 500,000 votes which is smaller as compared to what the entire Zamfara, delivered to GMB not to even call states in the Northeast or Kano\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what\u2019s it that the region is bringing to blackmail Buhari into handing over the government to Tinubu who thinks controlling Lagos is same as Buhari?\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach time we talk about Buhari\u2019s administration, people are quick to remind us that without the South-west region, GMB wouldn\u2019t have emerged, thats a lie, with or without that region he would have, it was time for Jonathan to leave and nothing would have stopped him\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nigeria\u2019s Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar is widely rumoured as GMB\u2019s favourite as well as Amaechi believed to have all the attention and the President-elect. Buhari had sent Atiku to lobby for the candidacy of Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina as President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Atiku is one of the men with open access to the President-elect.<\/p>\n

Another source said to NewsWireNGR, \u201cTinubu needs to understand that General Buhari will not serve him but Nigerians and what he thinks will work for the nation, we hear he is in Lagos trying to use the Press against GMB, but we will wait and see, we have seen the editorials already attacking Buhari\u201d.<\/p>\n

Yemi Osibanjo who has been left at the Lagos State governors Lodge in Asokoro seems not to know what is going on as people are all headed to the defence House to Visit Buhari, \u201cOsibanjo only attends meetings when he is called to do so by the President-elect\u201d another source said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was invited when the APC governors came around.. For now, he can\u2019t do anything but wait, i don\u2019t know why he needs to be part of every meeting by the President-elect, he is not the President-elect\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Dailybeast story that reminded Nigerians about Tinubu\u2019s role in a drug ring in the US was planted by a chieftain of the APC, said another member at the party\u2019s headquarter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have all known that Tinubu is involved in the drug cartel but how come all of a sudden people refer to him as the Machiavelli?, Nigerians need to be reminded because he is trying to display a clean image which actually he lacks\u201d.<\/p>\n

The South-West APC governors apart from Rauf Aregbesola are tired of Tinubu\u201ds overwhelming influence, reasons they have pushed to allow their nominees work with Buhari and what befell the \u201cLagos Strongman\u201d in the inauguration list might still be fall him.<\/p>\n

On Ministerial appointments, the APC governors in the South-West have all submitted three names each, same with their counterparts in other states of the country, reducing Tinubu\u2019s influence in appointments.<\/p>\n

What will become of the two (Buhari and Tinubu) in years ahead, only time will tell, but Nigerians are eager for the Change promised by Buhari and his cabinet and not the in-fighting ongoing..<\/p>\n

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