2023: Tinubu Not Part Of Buhari Regime; Don’t Blame Him – Oshiomhole

Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo, asserts that Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential nominee, has not participated in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and, as a result, cannot be held accountable for any wrongdoing by the government.

“I believe that while blaming, crediting, or assigning blame to someone, you should consider their contribution. That Tinubu helped form the APC is a reality. But he never took part in government,” Mr. Oshiomhole argued in a Wednesday morning interview on Arise TV.

“He never held any job in government,” he insisted. He didn’t complete any government-related contracts. How then can you give him credit in any case?

Though Messrs Buhari and Tinubu are leaders of the ruling APC, Mr Oshiomhole, a former national chairman of the party insisted that “You cannot say someone who never in any way participated in government be credited with the outcome of government policy or be blamed for same.”

Mr Tinubu, one of the founders of the ruling party will labour to detach himself from the failings of the Buhari regime which he helped install seven years ago, even as he tries to convince the Nigerian electorate to entrust him and his party with the country’s reins of government in the 2023 elections.

Analysts hold that the Buhari-led APC government has failed on all the promises it made on its way to gaining power in 2015. The party campaigned vigorously on a three-pronged mantra of securing the country, providing jobs and fighting corruption.