Nigeria, July 14 -- Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, raised the political barometer in the country a notch higher last week when he said that President Bola Tinubu did not play any significant role in the election that brought former President Muhammadu Buhari to power in 2015.

According to Mustapha, Buhari, who died just yesterday, entered the 2015 presidential contest with 12 million 'sure' votes from his devoted followers in the North, while the legacy parties in the merger that led to the formation of the All Progressive Congress (APC), contributed a meagre three million votes to his victory. The legacy parties he was referring to are the now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the All ...