Presidency has fired back at the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju bola Ahmed Tinubu over his comment on the electoral success of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2014, saying millions of Nigeria made Buhari President and not Tinubu alone.

In a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu on Monday, the presidency said the scenario of 2014 shouldn’t not be the one to determine the next election.

Tinubu, a presidential hopeful on the platform of the Party, during a consultation in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital with delegated from the State has claimed that Buhari couldn’t have become President if not for him that assisted him out of retirement.

The Presidency thought did not mention Tinubu’s name, it was clear the message was meant to put the record straight on the vituperation of the presidential aspirant.

The statement said there were people who small and larger roles in the historic election of 2015, adding that nobody should claim the glory to have made the success possible.

The Statement read, “It is perhaps not surprising that on the eve of the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer primary there are those running as candidates who wish to associate themselves with the President’s rise to elected office seven years ago.

“There are many people who played parts large and small in his historic election in 2015, making history as the first opposition candidate to defeat a sitting president with power changing hands peacefully at the ballot box.

“There are those who advised the President to run again; those who decided to build a political party – the APC – that could finally be the political vehicle capable of delivering victory where all other opposition parties and alliances before it had failed.

“Those decisions may have been agreed upon by a few. But they were delivered by thousands and voted for by tens of millions. No one can or should claim to have made the possible.

“Yet as important as that moment was, it is not what should decide the next general election.

“What matters is the future: the policy platforms, the ideas, the drive, and the determination to take over the President’s stewardship of our country and build upon his legacy to make our country better than it has ever been.

“The person most demonstrable in those qualities is the one to lead our party and our country forward.”