Tinubu, Buhari meet after naira redesign, fuel scarcity comment

The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, paid President Muhammadu Buhari a visit in Daura, the president’s hometown in Katsina State, on Friday night.

Some APC governors, including Katsina’s Governor Bello Masari, were reportedly present during Tinubu’s visit.

The meeting took place hours after the APC presidential candidate criticised several Federal government policies, alleging that they were designed to hurt him politically.

“Let them increase the price of fuel, only them know where they have hoarded fuel, they hoarded money, they hoarded Naira; we will go and vote and we will win. Even if they changed the ink on Naira notes. Whatever their plans, it will come to nought. We are going to win,” Tinubu stated at an APC presidential campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State’s capital, on Wednesday.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the opposition party, has been mocking Tinubu and the ruling party since his comment went viral.

But in a statement, APC Presidential Campaign Council Director of Media and Publicity Bayo Onanuga claimed that the opposition was trying to create tension between Tinubu and Buhari.

“Nigerians should no longer be in doubt about those working in cahoots with fifth columnists in the system to inflict avoidable pains on our hapless people for political end.”

“No sooner Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu empathised with the Nigerian people facing the dual crises of fuel and new Naira notes scarcity than the opposition PDP and the Atiku camp, issued a knee-jerk response, derailing from the issues, distorting Asiwaju’s statement and trying, in vain, to create a wedge between our presidential candidate and President Muhammadu Buhari.

“When the guilty are afraid of being uncovered, they try to push back with red-herring,” he said.

A few weeks before the election, interest in the topic remains high despite the president’s silence.