Former Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has revealed the reasons alliance talks between President Bola Tinubu and his predecessor, late Muhammadu Buhari, failed in 2011.
Speaking during an interview with political content creator, Edmund Obilo, Mohammed said they did not agree on who should be the running mate.
#Muktv recalls that what formed the current All Progressives Congress, APC, was the coalition of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, which had President Tinubu and his team, All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, and Congress for Progressives Change, CPC, which had Buhari and his supporters.
According to Lai Mohammed, late Buhari had already chosen Pastor Tunde Bakare to be his running mate, which brought disagreement amongst them.
“Now we in ACN argued powerfully that, look, we control six states. You, CPC, control only one state. We are even ready to submit ourselves to your platform and contest under the CPC.
Use your colours and everything, and we’re asking of you for only one thing, and you are not giving us? Our people will accuse us that we have sold them out.
“On that point, we went out separate ways, and of course, we both lost woefully again in 2011. By 2012, it became crystal clear to both Tinubu and Buhari as that they needed one another,” Lai Mohammed said.
