A former governor of Lagos State and Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said that the statement of President Muhammadu Buhari that, “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody”, was not targeted at him.

Buhari had during his swearing in ceremony on May 29, 2015 said, “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody”.  It was gathered that some persons thought that the statement was targeted at Tinubu.

But speaking during the launch of a book, “Nigeria on firmer ground, towards lasting peace and progress” written on the achievement of President Buhari’s administration by the presidential media team, Tinubu said,  “people have murmured his inaugural address statement that “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody” was aimed at me. Well, I find that strange indeed as those words were what I wanted him to say and wanted him to be,” he said as reported by Daily Trust.

Represented by a former Lagos State Commissioner of Information, Dele Alake, Tinubu said, “unlike others whose stated policy is to enrich friends, Buhari took the nobler position that it was better to help the millions of hard working but anonymous common folk instead of maintaining the national economy in the status of a festive party for a select few.