2023: Amaechi opens up on Tinubu’s pact with Buhari

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has expressed reservations over speculations that President Muhammadu Buhari had a pact with former Lagos Governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu to succeed in 2023.

Although Tinubu hasn’t officially declared his intention to take a shot at the Presidency, he previously said in 2016: “It depends on the timing; it depends on the environment and what political leadership dictates. I will not brush aside such an aspiration.”

However, Amaechi in a recent interview said he wasn’t sure if such a pact existed or any meeting of such happened between both parties, adding that as the Director-General of APC Campaign Organisation, he never witnessed such a decision.

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Recall that the purported pact, according to a highly placed chieftain of the party was reached after Tinubu was dropped as All Progressives Congress (APC) vice presidential candidate to douse opposition to a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Power brokers rallied, calmed Tinubu and conceded the selection of Buhari’s running mate to him.

Tinubu, it was gathered, asked Buhari to restate his promise which the President allegedly affirmed. It is believed that the meeting took place in January 2018.

However, Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers state said he was not sure if Buhari and Tinubu held such a private meeting.

“But if there was a private meeting between President Buhari and our leader, Tinubu, I wouldn’t know.

“If it was a public APC meeting and I was not there, then something must be wrong. I was not told that there was an agreement that power should be handed over to Tinubu”, Amaechi added.