A former Finance minister, Shamsudeen Usman has said party leader, Bola Tinubu can not ‘blackmail General Muhammadu Buhari into making concessions because the south west contributed a ‘little’ to the victory of Buhari.
According to Usman who was National Planning minster under President Goodluck Jonathan, maintained that the votes in Zamfara alone drowned what Buhari got in the south west.
He said ” Yorubas Must not blackmail Buhari. Tinubu should not think that controlling Lagos is same as controlling Nigeria.
“the entire South-West just contributed about 500,000 margin votes which is smaller as compared to what the entire Zamfara, delivered to GMB, not to even core states in the Northeast or Kano”.
“So what’s it that the region is bringing to blackmail Buhari into handing over the government to Tinubu who thinks controlling Lagos is same as
“Each time we talk about Buhari’s administration, people are quick to remind us that without the South-west region, GMB wouldn’t have emerged, that’s a lie, with or without that region he would have, it was time for Jonathan to leave and nothing would have stopped him [GMB.]”
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The Borno governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima made a similar statement last month, when he condemned Yorubas that are claiming that they are responsible or should be given credit for Buhari’s victory.
Governor Shettima said that the real heroes of the Buhari victory are the Igbos in APC, who ensured that President Jonathan didn’t get massive votes in the South East the way he received in 2011, not the South West