The Chairman of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC), Buba
Galadima, has said the cosy relationship between President Muhammadu
Buhari and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, is an afterthought.
In a tell-all account in the current edition of The Interview magazine, Mr
Galadima said he was principally responsible for the alliance between the
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and the Action Congress of Nigeria
(ACN), against Mr Buhari’s wishes.
Messrs Buhari and Tinubu were the leaders of CPC and ACN, two of the five
legacy parties that formed the APC in 2014.
Mr Galadima said, “Buhari was the one against the alliance with Tinubu and
I don’t want to say anything. Let Buhari deny what I have said. I was for
it and I organised it and wrote a memo that even produced a candidate for
the vice presidency, this same Osinbajo.”
Mr Galadima gave a hint that Mr Buhari may have, in fact, pencilled in
another running mate in the INEC form that was to have been submitted.
In a statement, the MD/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview, Azu Ishiekwene,
described the Galadima interview as “the stuff of a broken love affair,
with no closet details are spared.”
Using a slogan, ‘Anybody But Buhari (ABB)’, Mr Galadima said he was
planning to write an open letter to Buhari very soon, adding that the
president was a “floored candidate” who will lose his deposit if he
contests re-election.
“If he was raising cattle in Daura, I wouldn’t bother about him. I’m
criticising him because he’s the President of Nigeria and he’s not doing
very well,” Mr Galadima said.
He did not spare the Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, whom he
described as a latter-day Buharist bent on hijacking the ship.
In the same edition, the Executive President of Women in Africa, Hafsat
Abiola-Costello, said she suspects the autopsy conducted on her father,
MKO Abiola, was inconclusive, because “not all poisons can be traced”,
lending credence to suspicions that the winner of the June 12, 1993
presidential election may have been poisoned in detention.
Mrs Abiola-Costello shared the last conversation she had with her mother,
Kudirat, before she was murdered, the impact of her parents’ death on the
family, and family’s business, among others.
Also in this edition, the wife of the Kaduna State governor, Hadiza
El-Rufai, talked about her passion and role as wife, mother and first
lady, saying, “my husband is too honest.”