UNTOLD STORY: ‘How Tinubu outsmarted Buhari to emerge as President’

Former presidential aide, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, has disclosed that President Bola Tinubu outsmarted erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari.

Ojudu claimed that Buhari never supported his then-vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, and Tinubu during the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primary election.

He pointed out that Tinubu outsmarted Buhari in many ways to pick the party’s ticket and eventually emerge as president.

The former aide disclosed this while featuring on Edmund Obilo’s podcast ‘State Affairs’ on Monday evening.

According to Ojudu: “I knew Osinbajo was going to lose the primary, I saw it coming.

“Because of the system we operated and still operating, I kept saying at our meeting that all of the efforts we are making like traveling around, convincing people, and addressing delegates is only 40 percent.

“60 percent of it lies in Buhari’s hands unless and until Buhari mobilizes people around him, the governors, his aides, we are going nowhere.

“I used to refer to Buhari as a one-man majority and he never mobilized his team towards Osinbajo and I think Tinubu outsmarted him in so many different ways.”

In the build-up to the 2023 presidential elections, there were widespread claims that Buhari preferred the then Senate President, Ahmad Lawan over Osinbajo and Tinubu.