The Special Adviser to the President on Public Communications and Orientation, Sunday Dare says Muhammadu Buhari wouldn't have emerged as President without the help of President Bola Tinubu.

He stressed that if not for the political merger between Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Tinubu’s Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN), and some other parties, which birthed the All Progressives Congress (APC), Buhari wouldn't have emerged as President.

Recall Buhari ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in the 2003, 2007 and 2011 elections before dislodging the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led Federal Government in 2015.

Speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Dare said Buhari wouldn’t have won the election without Tinubu’s support.

“If you look at the role Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu played in the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari and I can say clearly that without Tinubu’s role in forming the party, making the platform to be there, President Buhari would not have emerged,” he said.

When asked if he sold the idea of fielding Buhari as the then-APC presidential candidate, the former minister replied in the affirmative.

“It couldn’t have been only me, it was a team. The electoral victories we won in 2015 and the one in 2019 had the writing of President Tinubu. We are a party and beyond me, several other people were also invited,” he stated.