By Egena Sunday Ode
The Presidency on Monday took a swipe at those allegedly making claims of pulling the strings behind the scene, which led to the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as the All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential flag bearer in 2015, saying now one person should brag about it.
Recall that, the foremre Lagos Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu who is currently a presidential ticket seeker of the APC hadrecently declared that nobody in the party could match all the sacrifices he had made for continued existence of APC from the days of defunct Action Congress (AC) and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) before its final political metamorphosis to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He equally boasted before his audience at a meeting in Abeokuta that but for him Buhari would not have won his elections.
In a veiled statement referring signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the Presidency said many people, not one single individual, could lay claim to the Buhari candidacy.
The Presidency said: “it is perhaps not surprising that on the eve of the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer primary there are those running as candidates who wish to associate themselves with the President’s rise to elected office seven years ago.
“There are many people who played parts large and small in his historic election in 2015, making history as the first opposition candidate to defeat a sitting president with power changing hands peacefully at the ballot box.
“There are those who advised the President to run again; those who decided to build a political party – the APC – that could finally be the political vehicle capable of delivering victory where all other opposition parties and alliances before it had failed.
“Those decisions may have been agreed upon by a few. But they were delivered by thousands and voted for by tens of millions. No one can or should claim to have made the possible.
“Yet as important as that moment was, it is not what should decide the next general election.
“What matters is the future: the policy platforms, the ideas, the drive, and the determination to take over the President’s stewardship of our country and build upon his legacy to make our country better than it has ever been.
“The person most demonstrable in those qualities is the one to lead our party and our country forward.
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