
Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, has strongly rejected claims that loyalists of the late former President Muhammadu Buhari now feel politically orphaned within the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking in an interview with BBC Hausa shortly after the special Federal Executive Council session presided over by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday, Barau said the ruling party remains under strong leadership.
“That’s not true. We have a great leader, President Bola Tinubu,” he told the BBC. “Even when God made Buhari president, he worked hand-in-hand with Tinubu.”
Barau, a senior APC lawmaker from Kano State, insisted that the party’s strength and foundation are deeply rooted in Tinubu’s political vision and leadership.
“It was Bola Tinubu who came up with the idea of forming the APC, and it was fate that Buhari became president first,” he said.
He further clarified that the APC’s formation was not by chance but a calculated merger, driven by Tinubu, that brought together four key political blocs: the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), and the New PDP.
“The current president was the one who arranged everything. So when people say there’s no leader, that’s just opposition talk, and it’s not true,” Barau stated.
His remarks come amid renewed political conversations about the future of the APC and its internal power structure following Buhari’s death and the growing anticipation ahead of the 2027 general elections.