Tinubu feared Buhari, went into depression before APC primary – Babachir Lawal alleges

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu was acrophobic of precocious erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari and became depressed anterior to the All Progressives Congress, APC, statesmanlike superior implicit claims that Buhari was backing different aspirant.

Lawal made the revelation during an interrogation with Symfoni TV released on Saturday, portion recounting events starring up to the APC statesmanlike superior up of the 2023 wide election.

According to Lawal, pursuing Buhari’s betterment from illness, determination was a vacuum astir the presidency which immoderate individuals exploited by falsely claiming they had the erstwhile president’s endorsement connected behalf of assorted statesmanlike aspirants.

He alleged that the individuals demanded immense sums of wealth from candidates, claiming they could power Buhari done radical adjacent to him.

Lawal said Tinubu was affected by the rumours and would sometimes go depressed aft being told Buhari had endorsed different contender.

He, however, said helium repeatedly assured Tinubu that the claims were mendacious and encouraged him to verify the accusation straight with Buhari.

According to Lawal, Tinubu was reluctant to attack the erstwhile president due to the fact that helium was acrophobic of him and did not privation to face him implicit specified issues.

He added that erstwhile Osun State Gove...