The recent political analysis shows that the captivating picture of President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, National Leader, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu alongside two governors on Tuesday in the luxurious bowels of the presidential jet on the way to Abidjan sent a message to discerning Nigerians.
The president’s message was clearly outlined in a meeting with the Nigerian community in Abidjan that night.
Buhari had said: “I came along with them so that…when you are going to meet the rest of Nigerians if you tell them that their governors were in the company of the president, I think that will be another vote for me in the future.”
It was as such not surprising that the following day that newspapers were saturated with the report that President Buhari had made up his mind to again seek our votes in 2019.
Also, flaunting a new rapport with Tinubu, Buhari said: “I also thank our leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He has brought me a very beautiful piece of information, which I was not aware of until I sat down and read it this evening (Tuesday night).
Whatever the message, Buhari’s description of Tinubu as “Our Leader” is ingenious. Many would remember the first major interaction between APC leaders with the president in June 2016 during which Buhari was quoted as having asserted that Tinubu should not be referred to as the National Leader of the APC.
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki had on that occasion reportedly addressed Tinubu as the National Leader of the APC, a phrase that nearly all had used in addressing Tinubu.
Buhari had in response to the shock of many present reportedly retorted: “Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, even though the Senate President addressed you as the National Leader of APC, you are not the national leader of the party. You are one of the national leaders of the APC.”
Nigerians are wondering what could have caused Buhari’s new attitude to Tinubu, a man that was beside God, the primary factor in the realisation of his presidential dream?
However, days before the Abidjan trip, a move to redesign Buhari’s political matrix by shoring up the APC base in the Southeast was rebuffed after the APC lost the governorship election in Anambra State.
The APC’s loss of Anambra despite the acclaimed popularity of its candidate, Dr. Tony Nwoye, would have driven home to Buhari that his 2019 permutations best remained through an alignment with Tinubu.
Even more frustrating for the Buhari camp was that before the Anambra election, the president was compelled for the first time, since the 2015 elections to wear an Igbo attire. That action seemed not enough to stir Ndigbo towards his party in Anambra.
However, the question for many is whether Buhari and Tinubu can still honestly work together.
Buhari while meeting with the Nigerian community in Abidjan said it was demonstrative of his May 29, 2015, popular declaration that he is for everybody and does not belong to anybody. But for many Nigerians who have seen the actions and inactions of Buhari, that time is long, long gone! The taste of the pudding is in the eating!
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