Buba Galadima: Tinubu is my friend — he helped my daughter get a job

Buba Galadima, a chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), says President Bola Tinubu helped his daughter secure a job at the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC).

Galadima, a stalwart in the Kwankwasiyya movement, made the revelation on Wednesday during an appearance on Jigsaw, a programme on AIT.

The NNPP chieftain said despite his constant criticism of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government, he remains friends with Tinubu.

“We are friends and will continue to be friends. If I want anything from him, I can ask,” he said.

“Let me confess on national television. My daughter used my phone to call the President and the President picked up the call thinking it was me. And they said they are my children and that they are calling him because the country is hard.

“They told Tinubu that ‘our father cannot do this for us and he told us that you are his friend’. The little one said she just finished the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), she could not get a job with the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) headed by Gbenga Komolafe.

“He (Tinubu) just asked, ‘call Komolafe, go and give my friend’s daughter a job’. That is why she wants to go to Mecca to thank God and to thank even Mr President.”

Galadima claimed that one of his daughters worked for former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for four years without pay.

“My daughter worked for him for four years and he instructed that she should not be paid a salary,” he said.

“Let them bring any voucher where she was paid. She worked for Buhari for four years in Osinbajo’s office without payment.”

The NNPP chieftain claimed that despite their longstanding friendship, he had turned down an offer from Tinubu to work in his government.