Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, paid President Muhammadu Buhari a visit on Friday night in Daura, the president's hometown in Katsina State.
Several APC governors, including the governor of Katsina, Bello Masari, reportedly attended Tinubu's visit.
The APC presidential candidate had just criticised many Federal government policies, claiming that they were intended to harm him politically, when the meeting was scheduled to take place.
“Let them increase the price of fuel, only them know where they have hoarded fuel, they hoarded money, they hoarded Naira; we will go and vote and we will win. Even if they changed the ink on Naira notes. Whatever their plans, they will come to nought. We are going to win,” Tinubu stated at an APC presidential campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State’s capital, on Wednesday.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the opposition party, has been mocking Tinubu and the ruling party since his comment went viral.
But in a statement, APC Presidential Campaign Council Director of Media and Publicity Bayo Onanuga claimed that the opposition was trying to create tension between Tinubu and Buhari.
“Nigerians should no longer be in doubt about those working in cahoots with fifth columnists in the system to inflict avoidable pains on our hapless people for a political end.”
“No sooner Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu empathised with the Nigerian people facing the dual crises of fuel and new Naira notes scarcity than the opposition PDP and the Atiku camp, issued a knee-jerk response, derailing from the issues, distorting Asiwaju’s statement and trying, in vain, to create a wedge between our presidential candidate and President Muhammadu Buhari.
“When the guilty are afraid of being uncovered, they try to push back with red-herring,” he said.
A few weeks before the election, interest in the topic remains high despite the president’s silence.