Buhari Indicates Soft Spot For Opposition Candidate
OpenLife Nigeria reports that President Muhammadu Buhari, has, for the first time, revealed a deep seated soft spot for one of the presidential candidates in the 2023 general elections.
The President made this disclosure in a documentary titled ‘Essential Muhammadu Buhari’, which aired on Sunday.
According to him, he would have been a dead man by now but for one of the presidential candidates of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, Engineer Rabiu Kwankwaso who he said gifted him an an armoured vehicle gifted which helped him survive a bomb attack in Kaduna in 2014.
Referring to the bomb attack on him in July 2014 , Buhari who was contesting the presidency at the time said that his convoy was affected after multiple blasts rocked the Kawo area of Kaduna state.
Buhari maintained that he was the target of the bomb attack, which resulted in the death of scores of people.
Reflecting on the incident in the documentary, Buhari said Rabiu Kwankwaso, who was governor of Kano at the time, gifted him the vehicle he was travelling in when the blast occurred.
“I think Kwankwaso was being generous. He gave me an armored Land Rover vehicle,” Buhari said.
“He said I should use it because he believed the competition I was going on involved people who would like to eliminate me.
“I was going to Kano from Kaduna in that jeep and a vehicle wanted to overtake us but my escort stopped them and they detonated the bomb.
“When I looked, I saw pieces of human beings. None of us in the vehicle were injured. But somehow I saw blood on me because of the number of people killed outside by the bomb.”
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