Why Tinubu-Buhari merger talks failed in 2011 – Lai Mohammed

Former Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has revealed the reasons confederation talks betwixt President Bola Tinubu and his predecessor, precocious Muhammadu Buhari, failed successful 2011.

Speaking during an interrogation with governmental contented creator, Edmund Obilo, Mohammed said they did not hold connected who should beryllium the moving mate.

DAILY POST recalls that what formed the existent All Progressives Congress, APC, was the conjugation of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, which had President Tinubu and his team, All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, and Congress for Progressives Change, CPC, which had Buhari and his supporters.

According to Lai Mohammed, precocious Buhari had already chosen Pastor Tunde Bakare to beryllium his moving mate, which brought disagreement amongst them.

“Now we successful ACN argued powerfully that, look, we power six states. You, CPC, power lone 1 state. We are adjacent acceptable to taxable ourselves to your level and contention nether the CPC.

“Use your colours and everything, and we’re asking of you for lone 1 thing, and you are not giving us? Our radical volition impeach america that we person sold them out.

“On that point, we went retired abstracted ways, and of course, we some mislaid woefully again successful 2011. By 2012, it became crystal wide to some Tinubu and Buhari arsenic that they needed 1 another,” Lai Mohammed s...