The real reason why Bola Ahmed Tinubu, frontline presidential aspirant at the just concluded APC presidential primaries floored other aspirants has emerged.
TheNewsGuru .com, (TNG) reports more facts emerged on Wednesday as to how Tinubu floored the other 13 aspirants despite the consensus diversionary tactic that initially reared its ugly head when APC national chairman announced the name of Ahmad Lawan as the consensus candidate.
A top political notcher in the North gave a vivid account of how the Tinubu campaign train started planning on how to ensure he emerges as the APC flag bearer two years ago.
A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal made this revelation explaining how the Tinubu group started massive consultation in 2020 on how to win this primary.
He said “we started early enough and I knew it was virtually impossible to lose at this stage after the hard work and energy exerted to get this far.
“For instance, in the South-South we only have away Rivers State to Rotimi Amaechi but for Bayelsa, it was a done deed, Delta, Akwa Ibom we initially left it for Akpabio but after joining us today we are sure of at least 80percent and Edo we were sure of 80percent compliant.
“Then across the north, we were sure of 60percent compliant because as of two weeks ago 1407 delegates were already in our kitty but with the turn of events here today I can boastfully say that we already have 1900 votes.
“We under projected by 100 delegates and that position has not changed but as the voting is ongoing we are still very sure of victory for Tinubu.
“As you know every politician goes into an election to win but in this case, Tinubu had a political structure that you can’t fault because it has a national spread.
Asked how did the Tinubu camp capture the southeast delegates despite not going there, Lawal said” it was easy for us because we had critical stakeholders and governors working for us in the region.
“Three days to primaries we invited some of these delegates to Abuja and several calls were made to critical stakeholders too.
“Where we can’t reach some of the stakeholders we call Tinubu to help us out and he was always willing to make such calls.
“Tinubu has a political structure that’s truly national so we had no problem penetrating the northeast, north-central, northwest, southwest, southeast, and the south-south.