How Tinubu, Ribadu backed Jonathan and Dasuki supported Buhari in 2011
- Former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki (rtd), supported President Muhammadu Buhari in the build-up to the 2011 general election
- The former NSA worked tirelessly to make the 2011 alliance between Tinubu and Buhari work
Olusegun Adeniyi, the chairman of Thisday Editorial Board, in his new book, “Against the run of play”, stated that former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki (rtd), supported President Muhammadu Buhari in the build-up to the 2011 general election, Daily Post reports.
Adeniyi noted that “one of those who worked tirelessly to make the 2011 alliance between Tinubu and Buhari work was Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), who would later become the National Security Adviser to Jonathan.”
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The chairman of Thisday Editorial Board added that Nasir El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, during the period, expressed the belief that following the collapse of the merger talks ahead 2011 polls, both Tinubu and Ribadu worked for Jonathan.
He said: “Tinubu of course gave the votes from Lagos and a few other SouthWest states, except Osun, to Jonathan, while the calculation of Ribadu was to reduce Buhari’s votes in the north even though he failed on that score.”
Legit.ng gathered that in 2015 Dasuki disclosed how he supported Buhari’s presidential aspiration in 2003, 2007 and 2011.
The former NSA said he knelt down in 2011 for the former National Chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Bisi Akande, to make Buhari a joint candidate of the ACN and the defunct Congress of Peoples Congress (CPC).
He urged Nigerians to verify from prominent Northerners, such as Adamu Adamu, Bashir Kurfi, Wada Maida, Sule Hamman and Kabir Yusuf, among others.
He also cleared the air on his involvement in the 1985 coup that led to the ouster of Buhari, then a military Head of State.
Dasuki disclosed how he and two military officers, traveled to Jos to brief Major General Buhari, then the GOC of 3rd Armoured Division, on the furtherance of the planning of the 1983 coup, which made Buhari the major beneficiary of the ouster of the elected President Shehu Shagari.
He recalled that Buhari, in one of their interactions, expressed his bitterness about insinuations on his stewardship in one of the public institutions.
Dasuki noted that he assured Buhari not to worry about such reckless and mischievous insinuations.
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According to an earlier report by Legit.ng, the national leader of the All progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu revealed how Nigeria's Vice President Yemi Osinbajo rejected the offer to run alongside President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.
Tinubu who made this revelation in new book written by Olusegun Adeniyi, the chairman of the Thisday editorial board said Osinbajo wanted the APC leader to inform the general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the offer.
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