FLASHBACK: Buhari, APC 'trashed' him after 2015 election victory - Tinubu’s wife

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is regarded as the godfather of politics in Nigeria. The founder of the All Progressives Congress (APC) played a key role in the victory of former President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 elections.

Despite his influence and contribution towards the victory of the party, there were times that he was neglected by the party he helped form.

This was confirmed in a 2018 interview by the then-Senator Oluremi Tinubu who is now First Lady. According to her, the president was "trashed" by the party after the victory in 2015.

She said in the interview on ‘Your View’, a breakfast show of Television Continental that Tinubu was sidelined despite his efforts towards ensuring that APC won the polls.

She said she was forced to prevail on her husband to discontinue his loyalty to the Presidency and the APC.

She said, “He was campaigning, I did too. We were running three campaigns in my house. And for him to be trashed like that? But I saw somebody who has love for this country. I hate to speak because when I stand in the front of God, I don’t want, because of this man, go to hell.

“Occasionally, I would chip in and I would say, ‘You ’re still helping out? Why are you helping out?’ He would say, ‘This country matters to me more.’”

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