The Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai says President Muhammadu Buhari stopped moves by some political heavyweights to make Seneta President Ahmad Lawan the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2022.
El-Rufai disclosed this while answering questions on a programme on TVC on Thursday.
According to him, this move was stopped by President Muhammadu Buhari after APC Governors approached him to disagree.
“In June 2022, before the APC presidential primary started, the National Chair of the party, Abdullahi Adamu, announced Lawan as the consensus candidate for the party.”
The governor said Buhari was shocked of the development.
El-Rufai added “We went to the president and said ‘Mr. President, this is what we are hearing; this is not what you’ve been telling us in the past two to three years. Is it true?’
“And the president expressed shock and said ‘I’m not part of this’.
“Right there and then, he summoned Garba Shehu to issue a statement that he hasn’t anointed anyone. And he told us very clearly ‘I have not anointed anyone’,”
