Don’t cry for Bola Tinubu

MANY monuments have been built in honour of the man Bola Tinubu. He is
acclaimed as the political genius of our times who not only engineered the
taming of the PDP juggernaut, he caged it and confined it to the backwaters
of Otuoke. Since the APC defeat of the PDP in the presidential election,
Tinubu the tactician has been feted, celebrated and praised to high
heavens. But all these encomiums have proved to be highly exaggerated.
The truth of the matter is that Tinubu, the veritable Jagaban of Borgu, is a
master of political illusion. He is remarkable for the distinction of
characteristically pulling defeat out of the jaws of putative victory. He mid-
wifed the birth of the APC, only to be shut out of its vice-presidential
sweepstakes. He engineered APC”s victory at the centre, only to see his
arch-enemies take over the posts of Speaker and Senate President in the
National Assembly. He piggy-backed Buhari to the presidency, only to be
shut out of a say in the president’s cabinet nominees.
Tinubu is called the National Leader of the APC when there is no such post
in the party’s Constitution. When a critical meeting of APC bigwigs was
called to address the party’s imbroglio in the National Assembly, the
“National Leader” could not attend because, in actual fact, he is not even a
member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party.
Sowing and reaping
In 2011, Tinubu was hailed for cutting his nose to spite his face. The PDP
nominated his kinswoman, Mulikat Akande, as Speaker of the National
Assembly. However, Tinubu conspired with recalcitrant PDP party-members
to frustrate the plans of their party for his South-west homestead. Instead,
he engineered the election of Sokoto’s Aminu Tambuwal, an APC wolf in
PDP sheep’s clothing, as Speaker.
In 2015, Tinubu received payback for these shenanigans again to the
detriment of his native South-West. The same Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto
he schemed into the position of Speaker in 2011, repaid Tinubu by
frustrating his efforts to install his Lagos acolyte, Femi Gbajabiamila, as
Speaker in 2015. Taking a leaf straight out of Tinubu’s 2011 playbook,

All Na politics tinubu still n power what bukola is facing he no about it, they are looking for way to removed bukola at all cost although bukola too betrayed party that vote him inn LOBATAN

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