Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, has refuted suggestions that members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), loyal to the late former President Muhammadu Buhari, now feel politically orphaned.
Senator Jibrin made these remarks during an interview with BBC Hausa shortly after the Federal Executive Council’s Special Session, led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Thursday.
He dismissed the notion as untrue, asserting that the ruling party now boasts a formidable leader in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
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“That’s not true. We have a great leader, President Bola Tinubu,” he told the BBC in an interview after the FEC event. “Even when God made Buhari president, he worked hand-in-hand with Tinubu.”
Senator Jibrin, a ranking APC lawmaker from Kano State, emphasized that the foundation and success of the APC were significantly driven by Tinubu’s political vision.
“It was Bola Tinubu who came up with the idea of forming the APC, and it was fate that Buhari became president first,” he said.
He further explained that the merger that gave birth to the APC was carefully orchestrated by Tinubu, uniting four major political groups: the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), and the New PDP.
“The current president was the one who arranged everything. So when people say there’s no leader, that’s just opposition talk, and it’s not true,” Barau stated.
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