Dare commends Tinubu, says Buhari wouldn’t be President without his support

The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Public Communications and Orientation, Sunday Dare, has affirmed that former President Muhammadu Buhari would not have emerged as President in 2015 if not for Bola Tinubu.

The former Minister of Sports and Youth Development under Buhari.commended Tinubu for supporting the emergence of Buhari.

According to him, before dislodging the Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government in 2015, Buhari had contested for the presidency in the 2003, 2007 and 2011 elections but failed.

However, before the 2015 general elections, the All Progressives Congress, APC, emerged by the fusion of al least four political parties – Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Tinubu’s Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, the All Nigerian People’s Party, ANPP, and a faction of the All Peoples Grand Alliance, APGA, to form a merger, the APC, which later defeated President Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Dare, who spoke on Channels Television’s Politics Today, stressed that Buhari’s quest to become President would not have come to fruition without Tinubu’s support.

According to him, “If you look at the role Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu played in the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari and I can say clearly that without Tinubu’s role in forming the party, making the platform to be there, President Buhari would not have emerged.”

Dare, who said he was part of the people who rooted for the Buhari ticket, said however that, “It couldn’t have been only me, it was a team. The electoral victories we won in 2015 and the one in 2019 had the writing of President Tinubu. We are a party and beyond me, several other people were also invited,” he stated.

Also, he said President Tinubu should be commended for removing the subsidy on petrol and other reforms aimed at positioning the nation’s economy, rather than vilified.