How powerful group hijacked power after Buhari’s victory in 2015- Dalung

A former Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has explained the influence of cabals in public governace, revealing how a powerful group hijacked power after President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in 2015.

Speaking on the Mic On Podcast published on Sunday, Dalung described a cabal as “a group of ambitious people who were also appointed by the same president to help him govern but they will run his presidency at their own expense and interest.”

He revealed that shortly after Buhari’s election, a powerful group emerged from “nowhere,” sidelining those who had campaigned for the president.

Dalung said, “When the president was declared winner, I was with him in his office. I went to see him in the evening. That very day, I was blocked from going into his house, and this was the same place as the last night of the previous day, I was there till 2 a.m.

” I was blocked until I had to make calls before I was allowed to go in till I was able to make calls to assess Buhari before I was allowed. So, from that day, the cabal had taken over.”

Dalung further criticised the situation, stating that the people who truly worked for Buhari “went celebrating” and left the president vulnerable.

“These people, who understood power, took over and ran the government to their interest until eight years were gone,” he said.

When asked about cabals in the current administration of President Bola Tinubu, Dalung suggested the dynamics had shifted within the ruling All Progressives Congress.

“It is the same APC we formed, but it is now more sophisticated. The party has become a complex political architecture, more like a zoo,” he remarked.