COUNTDOWN TO TINUBU @ 60 ‘Stop campaign of calumny against Asiwaju’
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A pressure group, the Defenders of Democracy (DOD) has condemned an alleged campaign of calumny against former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu.
The group, in a statement, said the story in an online news site that N1 billion was to be spent on Tinubu’s 60th birthday was mischievous.
The group said the report is the continuation of an earlier report that “Asiwaju Tinubu has suffered a stroke and was bed-ridden.”
It said: “The figure of N1 billion they mentioned, where did they get it? What is the source? They should provide a list of contributors, facts and evidence. It is not enough to make wild allegations and walk away. Nigerians must begin to exact from the online sites the truth and be sick and tired of being served mere rumours, innuendoes, half-truths and sheer blackmail.”
DOD advised Tinubu haters, whose only past time is character assassination, to “desist from their wicked past time of spite as it contributes nothing positive to the society.”
It noted that Tinubu’s Committee of Friends planned a befitting 60th birthday for the National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) without involving any government.
The group said: “We reliably gathered after a thorough fact finding that these friends and former colleagues met several times and pulled together resources towards the realisation of the project. They met severally and laid our plans, mindful of the austere times, the mood of the nation and the need to use Tinubu’s birthday as another opportunity to contemplate the realities on ground in Nigeria.”
The ACN in Osun State has congratulated Tinubu on his 60th birthday.
In a statement by the party's Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, the ACN said that Yoruba people throughout the world will forever remember the gallantry of Asiwaju Tinubu in the battle to save Yorubaland.
In an eulogy to the National Leader, the ACN, Osun State declared: "You, our beloved Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu fought the monsters of so-called mainstream politics to a halt in 2003 and held on to Lagos. "You engaged them in fierce, sometimes even bloody, battle from 2004 to 2011 and crushed them;
"First, you helped to retrieve Edo and Ondo states from them; then you restored the glory of Yoruba in Ekiti; and brought Osun back into the family of the Virtuous: after which you fought with everything you have to win back Oyo and Ogun states into the great family of Yoruba progressives.
"But for God and you, our beloved Asiwaju, these victories would have been impossible.
"These and more of your outstanding deeds make today so special to us. It is the celebration of your victory over the consortium of evil that ravaged Yorubaland from 2003 to 2009.
"We believe that there is still a remnant of the serpent that is lurking around to inflict harm on our people. But with you still fighting, the serpent head will be crushed.
"Asiwaju, God will stand with you for us, and we, the good people of Osun State and our leader, Ogbeni Rauf Aragbesola will stand by you solidly to fight the Amulumalas who want to destroy the legacy of Chief Obafemi Awolowo in this part of the country.
"Happy birthday, our great leader."

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In saner climes, Tinubu would be in prison.

Why do I think ACN members worship tinubu like north Koreans worship Kim Jong-il aka dear leader.

Which ever way we put it, Tinubu is probably the most successful politician in Nigeria today. Infact, he is the only regional leader we have today in Nigeria. He is a re-incarnation of Awolowo. The Igbos are yet to have a Zik and the North are yet to have a Balewa. I will say congrats to Asiwaju and wish a Zik+Ojukwu is born in Rochas.

Beaf: In saner climes, Tinubu would be in prison.

Yes. . . As well as 97 percent of PDP sha

Abagworo: Which ever way we put it, Tinubu is probably the most successful politician in Nigeria today. Infact, he is the only regional leader we have today in Nigeria. He is a re-incarnation of Awolowo. The Igbos are yet to have a Zik and the North are yet to have a Balewa. I will say congrats to Asiwaju and wish a Zik+Ojukwu is born in Rochas.

Nnamdi Azikiwe was neither a tribal leader nor a premier, so your analogy appears rather ignorant, no offense.

To be even more frank, majority of your posts do.

Ejiné:

Nnamdi Azikiwe was neither a tribal leader nor a premier, so your analogy appears rather ignorant, no offense.

To be even more frank, majority of your posts do.

i could give you a hug you know..no homo..

Ejiné:

Nnamdi Azikiwe was neither a tribal leader nor a premier, so your analogy appears rather ignorant, no offense.

To be even more frank, majority of your posts do.

You dumb *ss fella I wrote Azikiwe+Ojukwu in one man. I'm a nationalist.

I hope you know the difference between tribe and region. Nigeria stood on a quadrupod which Zik though a nationalist was the symbol of the East.