by Musa Abdullahi

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, well known as the ‘Jagaban of Bourdillon’ and widely reported as the Machiavelli of Nigeria by the Financial Times for sealing the deal for Nigeria’s President-elect Muhammadu Buhari doesn’t seem too happy shortly after the elections.

Here’s what we know according to sources from both sides, before the merger and throughout the elections, Bola Tinubu has been the one deciding for the South-West, from the nomination of Yemi Osibanjo,Nigeria’s Vice President-elect, to the election of John Oyegun, the party National Chairman.

Speaking at the Lagos TV complex, Agidingbi while marking Fashola’s 2,900th day in office, openly partisan Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu and a close friend to Bola Tinub, hinted on the fight between the Tinubu and the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.

He said,“People, who are now telling Buhari all sorts of things, are sycophants. They did not want Buhari to emerge winner in the election. These people know themselves. When it gets to a stage, I will name them one after the other. I am not afraid of human beings,” Akiolu explained.

Tinubu and Governor Rotimi Amaechi, the Rivers man who is widely reported to have funded the Buhari campaign don’t see eye-t0-eye, just to give our readers an understanding of what’s been going on.

After General Buhari was declared winner of the polls, that’s when he started avoiding Tinubu but opted for Ibukunle Amosun, the Ogun State governor.

A Chieftain of the party hinted NewsWireNGR, “Close allies to the General insists that if he must maintain his corruption free credentials, avoiding Tinubu will be the best decision, secondly, reducing his influence (Tinubu) will give him an opportunity to choose members of his team”.

Amosun has been a long time friend of Buhari in the South-West, recall that Amosun was a former member and senator with the All Nigeria’s Peoples Party, (ANPP) same platform with Buhari in the past, so the union didn’t start today.

Though governor Amosun left for the Action Congress of Nigeria and is widely seen as one of Tinubu’s governor’s, “reality is that, Amosun is one of those governors that aren’t loyal to Tinubu as many have made it seem”, a source tells NewsWireNGR.

The face-off between Tinubu and Buhari became obvious when the President-elect approved the final lists for candidates of the 19 member transition committee, to Tinubu’s surprise, only one of his nominee made the lists and was neither a Chairman or deputy Chair.

“Tinubu expected his candidate, Mr Wale Edun to have been chairman or deputy chairman, but that didn’t happen as General Buhari also asked Amosun to send in names which gave room for the appointment of Mrs Nike Aboderin”. A source within the Tinubu camp tells NewsWireNGR.

The source who doesn’t want to be mentioned said, “Some of us are asking where was the 85-year-old Malam Ahmed Joda before now? How can we have a committee with a serious task and a man as old as Joda is expected to cross the T’s and Dots the I’s to do the job well”.

Mr Wale Salami, is widely believed to have been appointed by Tunde Fashola and not Tinubu .

“General Buhari didn’t depend on Tinubu for the South-West slots and that’s where the problem is emanating from, he went on to ask Amosun and Fashola, and for someone like Tinubu, that’s an insult to bring in representatives from the South-West region through a different channel”. A party member, Shamsudeen Usman, privileged to the information tells NewsWireNGR.

Mrs Nike Aboderin the candidate that made the Buhari committee lists, shocked Tinubu. Aboderin was nominated by governor Amosun, she worked as the Senior Special Adviser on trade and investment as well as an economic adviser to the governor…

Shamsudeen continued, “The entire south-west just contributed about 500,000 votes which is smaller as compared to what the entire Zamfara, delivered to GMB not to even call states in the Northeast or Kano”

“So what’s it that the region is bringing to blackmail Buhari into handing over the government to Tinubu who thinks controlling Lagos is same as Buhari?”.

“Each time we talk about Buhari’s administration, people are quick to remind us that without the South-west region, GMB wouldn’t have emerged, thats a lie, with or without that region he would have, it was time for Jonathan to leave and nothing would have stopped him”.

Nigeria’s Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar is widely rumoured as GMB’s favourite as well as Amaechi believed to have all the attention and the President-elect. Buhari had sent Atiku to lobby for the candidacy of Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina as President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Atiku is one of the men with open access to the President-elect.

Another source said to NewsWireNGR, “Tinubu needs to understand that General Buhari will not serve him but Nigerians and what he thinks will work for the nation, we hear he is in Lagos trying to use the Press against GMB, but we will wait and see, we have seen the editorials already attacking Buhari”.

Yemi Osibanjo who has been left at the Lagos State governors Lodge in Asokoro seems not to know what is going on as people are all headed to the defence House to Visit Buhari, “Osibanjo only attends meetings when he is called to do so by the President-elect” another source said.

“He was invited when the APC governors came around.. For now, he can’t do anything but wait, i don’t know why he needs to be part of every meeting by the President-elect, he is not the President-elect”.

The Dailybeast story that reminded Nigerians about Tinubu’s role in a drug ring in the US was planted by a chieftain of the APC, said another member at the party’s headquarter.

“We have all known that Tinubu is involved in the drug cartel but how come all of a sudden people refer to him as the Machiavelli?, Nigerians need to be reminded because he is trying to display a clean image which actually he lacks”.

The South-West APC governors apart from Rauf Aregbesola are tired of Tinubu”s overwhelming influence, reasons they have pushed to allow their nominees work with Buhari and what befell the “Lagos Strongman” in the inauguration list might still be fall him.

On Ministerial appointments, the APC governors in the South-West have all submitted three names each, same with their counterparts in other states of the country, reducing Tinubu’s influence in appointments.

What will become of the two (Buhari and Tinubu) in years ahead, only time will tell, but Nigerians are eager for the Change promised by Buhari and his cabinet and not the in-fighting ongoing..


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Op na u dey scatter their marriage abi? GMB must hear dis

This isn't good but at least
Tanoids who have been calling buhari a tinubu puppet can now keep quiet.

Rubbish propaganda...learn to play a good opposition @ op

The southwest helped buhari win the election,forget the 'mere' 500,000 votes,elctioneering tactics are won before the election and the yorubas played that successfully for buhari!!
I understand keeping Tinubu at an arm's length but buhari should be wise enough not to undermine the southwest influence

Operko:
by Musa Abdullahi.
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Yemi Osibanjo who has been left at the Lagos State governors Lodge in Asokoro seems not to know what is going on as people are all headed to the defence House to Visit Buhari, “Osibanjo only attends meetings when he is called to do so by the President-elect” another source said.

“He was invited when the APC governors came around.. For now, he can’t do anything but wait, i don’t know why he needs to be part of every meeting by the President-elect, he is not the President-elect”.

The Dailybeast story that reminded Nigerians about Tinubu’s role in a drug ring in the US was planted by a chieftain of the APC, said another member at the party’s headquarter.

“We have all known that Tinubu is involved in the drug cartel but how come all of a sudden people refer to him as the Machiavelli?, Nigerians need to be reminded because he is trying to display a clean image which actually he lacks”...


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This is what it looks like when a maradonna wannabe scores an own goal. .

We are watching!

nedu2000:
The southwest helped buhari win the election,forget the 'mere' 500,000 votes,elctioneering tactics are won before the election and the yorubas played that successfully for buhari!!
I understand keeping buhari at an arm's length but buhari should be wise enough not to undermine the southwest influence

Please please please Buhari didn't say that. Those useless people are the ones that said it not Buhari. Besides, if you read carefully you will understand that its not between Buhari and the southwest because of the governors and other southwesterners. Its between Tinubu and Buhari

Shamsudeen Usman is a respected former finance minister so his words should be taken with some level of seriousness.

Truly,it seems there is some internal wrangling which is normal during power sharing.

At the federal level ,an unelected person should not be seen as having too much influence on the president ,else the president will be labelled a puppet and would always be seen from that light.

I also respect Tinubu for his public conduct since the election ended ,he has been less intrusive (at least from the public eye) even though he might have been working hard behind the scenes to maintain his influence within the party , but it looks like there are some party members who are not happy with him and would be glad to see his back or have his influence whittled ,at least.

Whatever be the case, they should come up with a good team to serve Nigerians who voted for change.

Time to fight corruption and not one another. Buhari must stand his ground now or loose his reputation as a corrupt-free leader. Nigeria is not a private property, let us all work together for the good of the entire country and not for the interest of a few.

Kagame:
Shamsudeen Usman is a respected former finance minister so his words should be taken with some level of seriousness.

Truly,it seems there is some internal wrangling which is normal during power sharing.

At the federal level ,an unelected person should not be seen as having too much influence on the president ,else the president will be labelled a puppet and would always be seen from that light.

I also respect Tinubu for his public conduct since the election ended ,he has been less intrusive (at least from the public eye) even though he might have been working hard behind the scenes to maintain his influence within the party , but it looks like there are some party members who are not happy with him and would be glad to see his back or have his influence whittled ,at least.

Whatever be the case, they should come up with a good team to serve Nigerians who voted for change.

If you believe Shamsudeen Usman, the former minister, said those words to Newswire, you will believe anything. I guess they spoke to another SU and gave the name prominence, hoping you'd think it was the SU you know.

There is or will be a rift between Buhari and Tinubu but this article is full of hypotheses and conjectures. You take these "infestations of the Internet" seriously at your peril.

Operko:
by Musa Abdullahi

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, well known as the ‘Jagaban of Bourdillon’ and widely reported as the Machiavelli of Nigeria by the Financial Times for sealing the deal for Nigeria’s President-elect Muhammadu Buhari doesn’t seem too happy shortly after the elections.

Here’s what we know according to sources from both sides, before the merger and throughout the elections, Bola Tinubu has been the one deciding for the South-West, from the nomination of Yemi Osibanjo,Nigeria’s Vice President-elect, to the election of John Oyegun, the party National Chairman.

Speaking at the Lagos TV complex, Agidingbi while marking Fashola’s 2,900th day in office, openly partisan Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu and a close friend to Bola Tinub, hinted on the fight between the Tinubu and the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.

He said,“People, who are now telling Buhari all sorts of things, are sycophants. They did not want Buhari to emerge winner in the election. These people know themselves. When it gets to a stage, I will name them one after the other. I am not afraid of human beings,” Akiolu explained.

Tinubu and Governor Rotimi Amaechi, the Rivers man who is widely reported to have funded the Buhari campaign don’t see eye-t0-eye, just to give our readers an understanding of what’s been going on.

After General Buhari was declared winner of the polls, that’s when he started avoiding Tinubu but opted for Ibukunle Amosun, the Ogun State governor.

A Chieftain of the party hinted NewsWireNGR, “Close allies to the General insists that if he must maintain his corruption free credentials, avoiding Tinubu will be the best decision, secondly, reducing his influence (Tinubu) will give him an opportunity to choose members of his team”.

Amosun has been a long time friend of Buhari in the South-West, recall that Amosun was a former member and senator with the All Nigeria’s Peoples Party, (ANPP) same platform with Buhari in the past, so the union didn’t start today.

Though governor Amosun left for the Action Congress of Nigeria and is widely seen as one of Tinubu’s governor’s, “reality is that, Amosun is one of those governors that aren’t loyal to Tinubu as many have made it seem”, a source tells NewsWireNGR.

The face-off between Tinubu and Buhari became obvious when the President-elect approved the final lists for candidates of the 19 member transition committee, to Tinubu’s surprise, only one of his nominee made the lists and was neither a Chairman or deputy Chair.

“Tinubu expected his candidate, Mr Wale Edun to have been chairman or deputy chairman, but that didn’t happen as General Buhari also asked Amosun to send in names which gave room for the appointment of Mrs Nike Aboderin”. A source within the Tinubu camp tells NewsWireNGR.

The source who doesn’t want to be mentioned said, “Some of us are asking where was the 85-year-old Malam Ahmed Joda before now? How can we have a committee with a serious task and a man as old as Joda is expected to cross the T’s and Dots the I’s to do the job well”.

Mr Wale Salami, is widely believed to have been appointed by Tunde Fashola and not Tinubu .

“General Buhari didn’t depend on Tinubu for the South-West slots and that’s where the problem is emanating from, he went on to ask Amosun and Fashola, and for someone like Tinubu, that’s an insult to bring in representatives from the South-West region through a different channel”. A party member, Shamsudeen Usman, privileged to the information tells NewsWireNGR.

Mrs Nike Aboderin the candidate that made the Buhari committee lists, shocked Tinubu. Aboderin was nominated by governor Amosun, she worked as the Senior Special Adviser on trade and investment as well as an economic adviser to the governor…

Shamsudeen continued, “The entire south-west just contributed about 500,000 votes which is smaller as compared to what the entire Zamfara, delivered to GMB not to even call states in the Northeast or Kano”

“So what’s it that the region is bringing to blackmail Buhari into handing over the government to Tinubu who thinks controlling Lagos is same as Buhari?”.

“Each time we talk about Buhari’s administration, people are quick to remind us that without the South-west region, GMB wouldn’t have emerged, thats a lie, with or without that region he would have, it was time for Jonathan to leave and nothing would have stopped him”.

Nigeria’s Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar is widely rumoured as GMB’s favourite as well as Amaechi believed to have all the attention and the President-elect. Buhari had sent Atiku to lobby for the candidacy of Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina as President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Atiku is one of the men with open access to the President-elect.

Another source said to NewsWireNGR, “Tinubu needs to understand that General Buhari will not serve him but Nigerians and what he thinks will work for the nation, we hear he is in Lagos trying to use the Press against GMB, but we will wait and see, we have seen the editorials already attacking Buhari”.

Yemi Osibanjo who has been left at the Lagos State governors Lodge in Asokoro seems not to know what is going on as people are all headed to the defence House to Visit Buhari, “Osibanjo only attends meetings when he is called to do so by the President-elect” another source said.

“He was invited when the APC governors came around.. For now, he can’t do anything but wait, i don’t know why he needs to be part of every meeting by the President-elect, he is not the President-elect”.

The Dailybeast story that reminded Nigerians about Tinubu’s role in a drug ring in the US was planted by a chieftain of the APC, said another member at the party’s headquarter.

“We have all known that Tinubu is involved in the drug cartel but how come all of a sudden people refer to him as the Machiavelli?, Nigerians need to be reminded because he is trying to display a clean image which actually he lacks”.

The South-West APC governors apart from Rauf Aregbesola are tired of Tinubu”s overwhelming influence, reasons they have pushed to allow their nominees work with Buhari and what befell the “Lagos Strongman” in the inauguration list might still be fall him.

On Ministerial appointments, the APC governors in the South-West have all submitted three names each, same with their counterparts in other states of the country, reducing Tinubu’s influence in appointments.

What will become of the two (Buhari and Tinubu) in years ahead, only time will tell, but Nigerians are eager for the Change promised by Buhari and his cabinet and not the in-fighting ongoing..


Read more http://newswirengr.com/2015/05/10/why-the-marriage-between-bola-tinubu-nigerias-president-elect-muhammadu-buhari-is-falling-apart/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

FAKE NEWS

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Looming crisis at D predroma stage which needs to be curtailed or else...

Whoever it s that was expecting the Buhari/Tinubu relationship not to hit a rocky moment is truely living a dillusional life....the rift between both men was expected but how they can manage it will be the yardstick for measuring their true political status and capabilities

abduljabbar4:


Please please please Buhari didn't say that. Those useless people are the ones that said it not Buhari. Besides, if you read carefully you will understand that its not between Buhari and the southwest because of the governors and other southwesterners. Its between Tinubu and Buhari

yeah your correct I was actually referring to what the analyst said that the southwest only gave buhari 500,000 votes

A looming crisis at the predroma stage which needs to be curtailed or else...

nedu2000:
The southwest helped buhari win the election,forget the 'mere' 500,000 votes,elctioneering tactics are won before the election and the yorubas played that successfully for buhari!!
I understand keeping buhari at an arm's length but buhari should be wise enough not to undermine the southwest influence

That is exactly the point! Southwest is easily sacrificed by north hausa-fulani yet u rush to meet them as puppets! When will SW stop the slavery attitude? SW totally forgot Abiolas case and how through military the north has kept us backward! U forgot that the. Wrongest people to ever be nigeria presidents were ibb and abacha but common knowledge should v told u that without buhari mindless coup,Nigeria wouldn't have known these military jackboats like ibb and abacha who destroyed our economy. Abacha regime not corrupt-buhari

Whoever said buhari would have won without the south west is completely illogical. What would have happen to buhari if what happened in rivers was repeated in lagos and ogun alone? This shamsuden self! You think with all the federal goverment dollars, lagos couldnt have easily provided 2 million votes for jonathan to cancel the lead of buhari. Stupid divisionists! I wonder where this people put their brains. Stop talking ethnic groups and lets find a wau nigeria will provide jobs for jobless graduates like me!!

I smell lies

The Internet infestations. Well, this is not new, even wole soyinka has aslo been quoted.

i don't blame GMB for distancing himself from Tinubu in order to be corruption free. But Atiku is also not clean now.

In Apostle Suleiman's voice " Tinubu should not smile yet "

Bullet....

We still have the tifnubu video....

Patiently waiting to see Where the change would start

Am not surprised. The influence of Tinubu has always been a thread to the North. They tolerated him all this while because they need his influence to win the election.
Now that the election is over, the major task now is to reduce his size. Northern agenda will be in jeopardy with Tinubu close to the corridor of power.





**Watching and Observing Developments in 3D**

Op,you want to give the yorubas High BP? Stop it.

peleson:

That is exactly the point! Southwest is easily sacrificed by north hausa-fulani yet u rush to meet them as puppets! When will SW stop the slavery attitude? SW totally forgot Abiolas case and how through military the north has kept us backward! U forgot that the. Wrongest people to ever be nigeria presidents were ibb and abacha but common knowledge should v told u that without buhari mindless coup,Nigeria wouldn't have known these military jackboats like ibb and abacha who destroyed our economy. Abacha regime not corrupt-buhari

your last statement isn't a fair one,if buhari hadn't I bet a whole lot of military officers were queuing up to topple a civilian govt

IDnoble1:
i don't blame GMB for distancing himself from Tinubu in order to be corruption free. But Atiku is also not clean now.

The feud between Buhari and Tinubu is not about corruption. It's about the Northern agenda.

nedu2000:
The southwest helped buhari win the election,forget the 'mere' 500,000 votes,elctioneering tactics are won before the election and the yorubas played that successfully for buhari!!
I understand keeping buhari at an arm's length but buhari should be wise enough not to undermine the southwest influence

The North will now partner with the SE/SS to keep you guys in the political dustbin of Nigeria


The price for treachery is about to hit you guys like a bomb blast






Buhari

Prove us wrong that you are not

BABA ONE CHANCE

BABA HYPOCRITE

BABA MAGICIAN


Prove us wrong by probing


Tinubu OBJ Saraki Atiku Rochas Amaechi


Prove us wrong by probing the corrupt Federal Civil Service which is dominated by Tinubu's people


Sir

Tinubu's people voted you because they believe they can steal the oil wealth and presidency through you


They believe Tinubu through Osinbajo can control your government the way Idiagbon did


Sir

They do not believe in change because if they do, they would have voted you in 2007 and 2011


Remember that you are a descendant of Usman Dan Fodio

Remember that your ancestors never allowed the Oduduwas deceive them


WISE UP

peleson:

That is exactly the point! Southwest is easily sacrificed by north hausa-fulani yet u rush to meet them as puppets! When will SW stop the slavery attitude? SW totally forgot Abiolas case and how through military the north has kept us backward! U forgot that the. Wrongest people to ever be nigeria presidents were ibb and abacha but common knowledge should v told u that without buhari mindless coup,Nigeria wouldn't have known these military jackboats like ibb and abacha who destroyed our economy. Abacha regime not corrupt-buhari

A slave who refuses to learn from his past will remain a slave forever


Afonja

Awolowo

Mko

sosanova:
the editorial was even written by an Huasa/fulani man.....the gang up by the Northerners against Tinubu is getting more real day by day...as smart as Tinubu is, it is baffles me how he fell into the trap of these ungrateful hausa/fulani politicians who think to rule Nigeria is their birth right. it is getting clear that the first casualty under Buhari Presidency will not even be PDP members but Tinubu.

Tinubu is about to join


Afonja


Awolowo


Mko