Buhari Book Reveals Failed Plot by Aides to Impose Ahmad Lawan as APC Presidential Candidate Using Fake Orders
A newly launched biography of the late former President Muhammadu Buhari has exposed a dramatic attempt by influential aides to manipulate the 2022 All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primaries by forging presidential directives to install then-Senate President Ahmad Lawan as the party's consensus candidate.
The revelations come From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari, authored by Dr. Charles Omole and unveiled on December 15, 2025, at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja. The high-profile event was attended by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
According to the book, on the eve of the APC primaries, aides close to Buhari allegedly issued counterfeit orders to top security chiefs โ including the Inspector-General of Police (Usman Alkali Baba), the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). The forged directives instructed the deployment of security forces to ensure Lawan's emergence as the consensus candidate.
Former IGP Alkali Baba reportedly rejected the orders outright, consulted his counterparts, and directly verified with Buhari. The late president denied issuing any such instructions, stating he had no preferred candidate and emphasizing that Nigerians should freely choose their leader. Buhari reportedly laughed upon hearing that celebrations had erupted in Lawan's neighborhood over the supposed endorsement.
"He made it clear: he had not anointed anyone. Nigerians should choose, and the security agencies must not interfere," the book quotes sources close to the events.
The biography portrays this incident as evidence of Buhari's principled restraint, resisting the abuse of state institutions for political gain. It also details other internal power struggles, including the 2018 sacking of DSS boss Lawal Daura and a family dispute in the Presidential Villa involving gunfire.
Sahara Reporters Uncovers 20 Suspected Boko Haram Terror Financiers All Spread Across Five Arewa States:
Kano โ 11 Terror FinanciersโจZamfara โ 3 Terror FinanciersโจBorno โ 2 Terror FinanciersโจSokoto โ 2 Terror FinanciersโจKaduna (Zaria) โ 1 Terror Financier
It is an insult to more than 232 million people, to our Constitution and to our democratic institutions. But anyway, who do you think you are to look down on our country?
@Ony1nyechi This is exactly what happened, I already said it when it happened.
They intentionally did this and publicized it before the US Congress debates so it could be used as false talking points that Christians aren't their targets. This is a lie
We are dealing with very evil people.
This is exactly what happened, I already said it when it happened.
They intentionally did this and publicized it before the US Congress debates so it could be used as false talking points that Christians aren't their targets. This is a lie
We are dealing with very evil people.
It might look like Iโm a conspiracy theorist but I donโt think these girls were truly abducted.
Donโt even get me started on the AI photos they were circulating.
It looks to me like โtheyโ wanted to prove that Muslims are also being targeted and bundled a group of girls in a secured environment and waited a while to bring them out, coupled with the fact that no arrest was made.
These terrorists are too bloody to have these girls smiling and well looked after like this.
Something is veryyyyyy fishy and until the kidnapped Catholic girls and boys are released just like these ones, I no go believe anything.
NIGERIA UPDATE - EVERY NIGERIAN SHOULD READ THIS INSIGHTFUL PIECE:
Think Naija: The Reform Notebook.
THE NARRATIVE BEFORE THE INTERVENTION: HOW WASHINGTON IS SHAPING NIGERIAโS STORY. - November 21, 2025 - Part 1
Foreign intervention never begins with airplanes, sanctions or soldiers. It begins with stories. It begins with how a country is described, framed, understood and judged by powerful nations.
Iraq did not begin with missiles. It began with a narrative about weapons of mass destruction. Libya did not begin with bombs. It began with a narrative about protecting civilians. Syria did not begin with airstrikes. It began with a narrative about humanitarian responsibility.
The same pattern is now forming around Nigeria, and the speed is alarming.
The life sentence delivered to Nnamdi Kanu on November 20, 2025 is a perfect example. A Nigerian court, after years of legal proceedings, found him guilty on seven terrorism related charges, including directing violence, issuing sit at home orders, caused hundreds of deaths, and guiding bomb making. The court described him as an international terrorist and chose life imprisonment instead of the death penalty.
Within hours, a US lawmaker declared that the conviction was evidence of religious persecution.
A terrorism judgment became a faith narrative in a single step. This did not happen randomly, it is structural and it is how congressional narratives are built.
A legal event happens. American lawmakers interpret it through a moral lens that suits domestic politics. The narrative becomes a talking point. Talking points become resolutions. Resolutions become sanctions or conditions. And at the end of that chain lies the justification for foreign intervention.
This is the architecture we are watching being built around Nigeria.
What makes the situation even more concerning is that this narrative did not start yesterday. It has been shaped for years, intentionally and deliberately, through structured lobbying.
Foreign Agents Registration Act filings in Washington show that IPOB and its affiliates hired American lobbying firms to promote a narrative of Christian persecution in Nigeria. The message was clear: Nigeria is killing Christians, the Nigerian state is complicit, and the South East faces genocide. These claims were crafted to appeal to the American evangelical and conservative network that sees global Christian victimhood as a core political issue.
This lobbying created a permanent narrative frame. Even after contracts ended, the impression remained inside congressional offices, in briefing notes, in staff memory and in committee debates. Lobbying does not disappear when the cheque stops. It leaves a shadow.
This is why the same Congress that invokes Christian persecution rarely mentions certain facts.
It ignores that Boko Haram has killed more Muslims than Christians. It ignores that banditry in the North West is driven by economic motives, not religion. It ignores that many Christian communities in the Middle Belt are attacked, but Muslim communities across the North and Middle Belt also suffer the same fate in even larger numbers. It ignores that IPOB and ESN splinter groups killed over 700 Christians in the South East and enforced violent sit at home campaigns. It ignores that Finland, a Western nation, convicted a key Biafran agitator for terrorism in September 2025. It ignores that the Nigerian court conviction of Kanu was based on evidence, not on faith.
And it ignores the deaths of Muslims who are also victims of the same terror networks. Only days before some US lawmakers repeated the Christian genocide narrative, terrorists abducted and murdered the Ameer of the Muslim Students Society of Nigeria in Kebbi State, Alqasim Uthman Ibrahim. He was kidnapped and killed in captivity, without media attention, international outrage or congressional concern.
https://t.co/2Q8z3cwKHS
People should be very careful, why is there a Fulani community in the bush. Why can't they come out and leave among normal people.
They are just waiting for the time to strike. These ones don't do the account but give the Intel for the attack.
UPDATE ON THIS ISSUE๐จ๐จ:
OGUN POLICE COMMAND DEPLOY TACTICAL TEAMS ON SURVEILLANCE OPERATION IN AJEBO COMMUNITY
โฆ assures residents of public safety
The Ogun State Police Command has reassured residents of Ajebo community in Obafemi-Owode Local Government that there is no imminent threat of attack in the area following a viral video circulating on social media that herdsmen are preparing to unleash violence on the host community.
The Commissioner of Police, Ogun State Command, CP Lanre Ogunlowo, deployed the Commandโs tactical team, led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations) to assess security situation in the area, in conjunction with Amotekun Corps, So-Safe Corps, Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), local hunters and Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN) to undertake thorough intelligence-led assessment in and around Ajebo community.
The operatives discovered the Fulani settlers in Ajebo are not hostile migrants but long-standing residents, living peacefully within the community. Children and women were seen in their temporary shelters but no arms or suspicious activities were detected. No adult male was present. The men had travelled to Oyo State for trading activities, which is consistent with their routine economic pattern. A further sweep of the settlement revealed an extended RUGA location that has reportedly been in existence for over ten years.
The Kabiyesi, Oba Rueben Oluwole, who is said to have authorized the allocation of land to the settlers, has been invited for clarification. Additionally, the Baale of Alapako, where another cluster of Fulani huts were identified, has also been invited for a meeting with the Commissioner of Police.
The combined team of security agencies is maintaining surveillance within the forest area, approximately 10km from the main community. Their presence is strictly precautionary, as the settlers were found to be unarmed and living peacefully.
The Ogun State Police Command reassures members of the public that proactive intelligence measures remain fully in place, and citizens are advised to remain calm, vigilant, and to avoid sharing unverified information capable of inciting fear.
They did Kebbi for two reasons;
1) To justify they also kidnap muslims especially for the US Congress hearings, this is just a false herring to distract from their main Christian targets.
2) To justify the new volume of Christian kidnappings you should expect to see shortly