{"id":58763,"date":"2024-12-31T17:06:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T17:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58763"},"modified":"2024-12-31T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T17:06:18","slug":"how-tinubu-outsmarted-buhari-to-win-apc-presidential-ticket-babafemi-ojudu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/31\/how-tinubu-outsmarted-buhari-to-win-apc-presidential-ticket-babafemi-ojudu\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tinubu Outsmarted Buhari to Win APC Presidential Ticket \u2013Babafemi Ojudu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Babafemi Ojudu, former Special Adviser on Political Matters to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has revealed that Buhari neither supported Bola Tinubu nor Vice President Yemi Osinbajo during the 2022 All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential primary.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the podcast State Affairs hosted by Edmund Obilo, Ojudu explained how Tinubu employed strategic maneuvers to secure the APC presidential ticket despite Buhari&#8217;s neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew Osinbajo was going to lose the primary; I saw it coming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the system we operated, 40% of the effort was in addressing delegates, but 60% depended on Buhari mobilizing governors and aides. Without that, we were going nowhere,\u201d Ojudu said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Buhari\u2019s lack of support for Osinbajo was apparent, while Tinubu capitalized on the situation to outmaneuver the former president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuhari never mobilized his team for Osinbajo or any candidate, creating an opportunity for Tinubu to fill the gap strategically,\u201d Ojudu added.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 APC primary saw Tinubu emerge victorious with 1,271 votes, outpacing Rotimi Amaechi (316 votes), Osinbajo (235 votes), and Ahmad Lawan (152 votes), despite speculations that Buhari preferred Lawan as the party\u2019s candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Ojudu\u2019s revelations underscore the critical role of strategy and influence in shaping the outcome of Nigeria\u2019s political contests, highlighting Tinubu\u2019s tactical approach in securing his path to the presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Babafemi Ojudu, former Special Adviser on Political Matters to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has revealed that Buhari neither supported Bola Tinubu nor Vice President Yemi Osinbajo during the 2022 All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential primary. Speaking on the podcast State Affairs hosted by Edmund Obilo, Ojudu explained how Tinubu employed strategic maneuvers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":58764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58765,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58763\/revisions\/58765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}