Shettima, a former governor of Borno state, said Tinubu supported and helped Atiku to emerge presidential candidate in 2007 after he “was harassed, intimidated, dehumanised and chased out of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).”
But Atiku, a former vice president and PDP presidential candidate in 2023, countered his successor’s claim, stating that Tinubu “benefited immensely from his (Atiku) goodwill” which salvaged Tinubu’s political career as former governor of Lagos State.
The former vice president also said the platform on which he contested the 2007 election was Action Congress (AC), which was a coalition of Advance Congress of Democrats (ACD) formed by mainly PDM members and other associates and Tinubu’s faction of AD.
