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I think it’s important to make this clarification. There is an assumption that I was ever Tinubu’s friend. I was not. We never got along with Tinubu. We never had a personal relationship,” he said.
For me, Tinubu was initially just an aspirant of the party. I was approached by certain Islamic stakeholders from the Southwest and asked to support the emergence of a Southwest Muslim presidential candidate,” he stated, noting that his support was based on an understanding that power would shift to the South after Buhari’s eight-year tenure.
He added, “It is a principle of mine that I fight for the candidate of my party in every election to win, whether I like the candidate or not. Tinubu emerged as the candidate, and I gave everything to ensure that he won. And that’s what I did.”
We didn’t fall out. We just could not find areas of agreement. There was no equilibrium. We couldn’t agree,” he explained, criticizing the Tinubu administration’s approach.
“I am in government for delivery, for results and performance. Public service is not about making money for yourself. It’s not about stealing. It’s not about appointing your cronies or your tribesmen,” he said.
Even if the offer that Tinubu made to me to be a minister had gone through, I would have left the government long ago. The philosophy of this government is contrary to everything I have been taught as a Muslim, as a northerner, and as a Nigerian,” he said.
He concluded, “These guys didn’t come to govern. They came to enrich themselves, pure and simple.
We are different people. So it should not surprise anybody that knows me and knows Tinubu to see that we are parallel lines that will never meet.”
SB E-news.
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