Abubakar and Tinubu first became political associates (Tinubu once confided in a U.S. diplomat that it was Abubakar who “convinced him to join politics in the early 1990s”) under the umbrella of Yar’Adua’s People’s Front of Nigeria and would fall into the same progressive camp under the umbrella of the Social Democratic Party, one of the two government-created political parties—the National Republican Convention was the other one—after General Ibrahim Babangida determined that none of the parties created by the political elite at his own instigation was fit for purpose. Over time, Abubakar and Tinubu’s paths would continue to cross, and
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