A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Buba Galadima has revealed that ex-President Muhammadu Buhari never wanted President Bola Tinubu to succeed him.
According to Galadima, Buhari caused a sub committee to be formed to review the All Progressives Congress, APC, constitution so that he wouldn’t be a member of the Board of Trustees of the party.
In an interview with African Independent TV, Galadima claimed that Tinubu then saw through the plan of Buhari and didn’t implement the history directive.
According to the NNPP chieftain, it was open that Buhari never wanted Tinubu to succeed him.
He claimed that Tinubu himself was aware of Buhari’s antics but him being magnanimous as a statesman did not want to talk about it.
He said: “Let me tell you what Tinubu did to me. In APC constitution, the secretaries of the parties, CPC, ACN, merging should be members of the BOTs, National Working Committee, NWC, because of the institutional memory.
“When Buhari saw me, he said he didn’t want to see me anywhere. He now caused a sub committee to be formed to reinvigorate the constitution. He appointed President Bola Tinubu as the chairman of that committee.
“Tinubu saw into what Buhari was trying to do. As I speak to you, the committee has not sat, it hasn’t submitted any report, and the constitution has not been amended. And that was part of why even Buhari never wanted him to be the president – because he refused to take me out.
“For the past 12 years, the BOT of All Progressives Congress, APC, hasn’t sat. And NWC only sat two or three times during the administration of Buhari. They never wanted to see me, that’s why I left.
When asked again about Buhari not wanting Tinubu to succeed him, he said, “Is there anybody who doesn’t know? Tinubu himself knows. Because he’s being magnanimous as a statesman, he doesn’t want to say his mind”.
