Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Nigerians to vote for him to be the next president.

The public statement should end the rumours that Mr Buhari and Mr Tinubu are at odds with each other.

Remember that social media went crazy last week when the APC presidential candidate said at a rally in Ogun state that the redesign of the Naira and the fact that it was hard to get was a plan to hurt his campaign.

Days after the outburst, Governors Umar Ganduje of Kano and Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna said in separate interviews that “elements” around the president are working against Mr Tinubu’s ambitions.

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But on Saturday, Mr Buhari said in Nasarawa that he fully backs Mr Tinubu’s bid for the presidency.

“I am very pleased to be here today at this campaign for Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the next president of Nigeria and the governor of Nasarawa State for his second and final term. Thank you very much for defying the weather and standing in the sun for hours.

“I congratulate you and assure you that we are going to win through and through. Ahmed Bola Tinubu, I knew him more than 20 years ago—all the problems that we had, I mentioned earlier—there is no local government that I have not visited between 2003 and 2011. I visited all the states in 2019 when I was asking for a second term. I will continue to campaign for Bola Tinubu,” said the president.