A former Special Assistant on New Media to late President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Ahmad, has defined why the previous president didn’t brazenly assist Rotimi Amaechi’s ambition to emerge because the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate within the 2023 common election.
Ahmad stated Buhari believed in permitting the get together’s democratic course of to function independently and barely interfered in presidential primaries to impose his most popular candidates.
He acknowledged this whereas reacting to Amaechi’s declare that Buhari had promised him the APC presidential ticket forward of the get together’s 2022 presidential main.
In an announcement shared on his social media pages, Ahmad described Amaechi’s revelation as stunning, saying it was inconsistent with what many individuals knew about Buhari’s political ideas and character.
According to him, the late president usually selected to stay impartial throughout get together primaries, even when he had a most popular candidate.
“This is why Rotimi Amaechi’s recent revelations would come as a shock and surprise to many who knew President Buhari, his principles and his political character,” Ahmad stated.
He expressed hope that folks with larger data of the circumstances surrounding the alleged promise would come ahead to make clear the matter and defend Buhari’s fame.
“I sincerely hope those with greater knowledge and privileged information will come forward to clarify these allegations and help protect the reputation of our late boss, whom we all knew as a man who stood firmly by his word and would never deliberately betray his promises,” he stated.
Ahmad additional recalled Buhari’s well-known political place, saying, “He was indeed for everybody and he was for nobody.”
Amaechi, a former Minister of Transportation and ex-Governor of Rivers State, was among the many aspirants who contested the APC presidential ticket in 2022. The get together ultimately selected Bola Tinubu, who went on to win the 2023 presidential election.
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