{"id":38570,"date":"2015-05-12T20:04:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=38570"},"modified":"2015-05-12T20:04:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:04:54","slug":"tinubu-cant-blackmail-buhari-says-former-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/tinubu-cant-blackmail-buhari-says-former-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu can&#8217;t blackmail Buhari says former finance minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1431445897045_14143\" class=\"base-card-body\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1431445897045_14122\" class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1431445897045_14142\" class=\"email-wrapped\">\n<div id=\"yiv3184423077\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1431445897045_14141\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A former Finance minister,\u00a0 Shamsudeen Usman has said party leader, Bola Tinubu can not &#8216;blackmail General Muhammadu Buhari into making concessions because the south west contributed a &#8216;little&#8217; to the victory of Buhari.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to Usman who was National Planning minster under President Goodluck Jonathan,\u00a0 maintained that the votes in Zamfara alone drowned what Buhari got in the south west.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He said &#8221; Yorubas Must not blackmail Buhari. Tinubu should not think that controlling Lagos is same as controlling Nigeria.<br \/>\n\u201cthe 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\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\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<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\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, that\u2019s a lie, with or without that region he would have, it was time for Jonathan to leave and nothing would have stopped him [GMB.]\u201d<br \/>\nSimilarly:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">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\u2019s victory.<br \/>\nGovernor Shettima said that the real heroes of the Buhari victory are the Igbos in APC, who ensured that President Jonathan didn\u2019t get massive votes in the South East the way he received in 2011, not the South West<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"base-card-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Finance minister,\u00a0 Shamsudeen Usman has said party leader, Bola Tinubu can not &#8216;blackmail General Muhammadu Buhari into making concessions because the south west contributed a &#8216;little&#8217; to the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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