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Don't Cry For Tinubu - Femi Aribasala by todyms: 10:05am On Oct 20, 2015 |
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. 1 Like
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Re: Don't Cry For Tinubu - Femi Aribasala by donTbone(m): 10:06am On Oct 20, 2015 |
After reading thru, with itching eyes and yawns, I have this short comment... The enemies of Tinubu become Senate presidents; they become Speakers of the House of Representatives; they become ministers of the Federal government. But the friends of Tinubu are sent to Siberia. The Jagaban of Borgu himself has been slain politically upon his high places. How are the mighty fallen! Tinubu is now dancing in the shadow of his own past. Whatever you give to life, it will definitely throw you back. Ask uncle Segun Obj... he knows what am saying! 1 Like |
Re: Don't Cry For Tinubu - Femi Aribasala by todyms: 10:06am On Oct 20, 2015 |
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, Tambuwal conspired
with opposition PDP members to install another
Northern PDP turncoat, Yakubu Dogara, as
Speaker.
Tinubu’s comeuppance here is particularly savage
because it was actually Gbajabiamila who
reportedly convinced Tinubu that Tambuwal
would readily act as traitor to his PDP party in
2011. It is therefore veritable poetic justice that
the same Tambuwal became an equally ready
tool of the PDP in the frustration of
Gbajabiamila’s ambitions and the interests of
Tinubu and the APC in 2015.
Moreover, Tinubu was repaid for his 2011
manipulations with interest. The same treachery
employed to Tinubu’s political disadvantage in
the House was also duplicated in the Senate.
Bukola Saraki, another PDP turncoat, refused to
abide by the dictates of APC Central, firmly
controlled by Tinubu’s ACN. He snatched the
position of Senate President without official APC
approval, but with the support of the opposition
PDP. So doing, he sidelined both Tinubu’s first-
choice of George Akume, as well as his second-
choice of Ahmed Lawan.
Crumbled cookie
Just as Tinubu was licking his wounds at the
denial of his “rightful inheritance” in the National
Assembly after the APC victory at the polls, the
news came that his political cookie had equally
crumbled at Aso Rock. It had been popularly
alleged that Tinubu’s portion in Buhari’s
presidency would not be limited to the
appointment of his political godson as vice-
president, but would also include the allocation
of no less than nine choice ministerial nominees
to the discretion of the Jagaban of Borgu.
But by the time Buhari unfurled his ministerial list
two weeks ago, the alleged dedicated slots had
shrunk to zero. Many of us had warned in the
heady days of the formation of the APC that
those insistent that power must return to the
North would be determined to checkmate Tinubu
if and when the election was won. We warned
Tinubu that even as he cannot conceivably be
accepted nationally to rule Nigeria as president,
even so can he not rule Nigeria by proxy. We
warned him that the North would never allow
Buhari to be his Man Friday in Aso Rock.
However, Tinubu was too far gone to listen. It
would now appear that he even failed to take out
insurance policies against such probable
eventualities.
But once elected, Buhari started a romance with
Babatunde Fashola and Kayode Fayemi designed
clearly to sideline the Jagaban. While these
former governors were previously members of
Tinubu’s inner-circle, they had since run out of
patience with the heavy handedness of their
boss. Therefore, during the election campaign,
both of them campaigned for Buhari above and
beyond the call of party duty. 2 Likes |
Re: Don't Cry For Tinubu - Femi Aribasala by todyms: 10:07am On Oct 20, 2015 |
Fashola, in particular, was clearly fed up with
being under Tinubu’s political shadow. In the
struggle for who would be the APC governorship
candidate in Lagos State, Tinubu did not allow
Fashola to choose his successor, in the ignoble
tradition of Nigerian governors. While Fashola
favoured Dapo Sasore, the former Attorney
General of Lagos State, Tinubu railroaded in
Akinwunmi Ambode as the APC candidate.
While again, in the ignoble tradition of Nigerian
politics, governors promptly transform themselves
into Senators when their term as governor ends,
this option was closed off to Fashola because
Tinubu had already installed his wife as the
Senator from Fashola’s constitutency. The only
option left for Fashola politically was presidential
ministerial appointment and, even there, Tinubu
had put up a road block against him.
Tinubu prefers to nominate political nonentities
for higher office in the South-West, so that he
would be the only Iroko tree in the forests of the
region. Therefore his candidates for ministerial
appointment from Lagos were his little nationally-
known former commissioners, Wale Edun and
Yemi Cadosso, who could pose no threats
whatsoever to his ascribed South-West political
supremacy.
Alarm bells:But when Fashola and Fayemi
accompanied Buhari to the G7 meeting in
Germany in June 2015, alarm bells started ringing
in Tinubu’s Bourdillon Road mansion in Lagos.
This was clearly a signial that these former
governors were intent on by-passing the official
godfather of the South-West by applying to be
members of Buhari’s kitchen cabinet on their own
recognisance.
The Tinubu brigade would have none of this.
Therefore, a campaign of calumny was launched
to cut Fashola in particular to dimunitive size.
Suddenly, the “memo” was sent out implying the
former governor had developed political leprosy.
When two books were launched simultaneously
celebrating his achievements as governor, none of
his APC colleagues from Lagos dared to attend
for fear of entering the bad books of the dreaded
Jagaban.
In order to nail the coffin on Fashola’s ministerial
aspirations, it was leaked to the press that a
whopping 78 million naira of public money was
spent on the construction of his personal
website. 139 million naira was also alleged to
have been spent on two boreholes constructed in
Government House, Lagos during his tenure. The
intention here was to ensure that Fashola
becomes ineligible for ministerial consideration on
grounds that he would not pass Buhari’s anti-
corruption integrity test.
However, Buhari was apparently unimpressed by
these political shenanigans. When his list of
ministerial nominees were unfurled, Fashola and
Fayemi featured prominently among Buhari’s “first
eleven.” None of Tinubu’s nominees made the
list. Other nominees from the South-West were
precisely the kind of people Tinubu did not want
in Buhari’s team; people who would not be
indebted to Tinubu but to Buhari.
While Buhari completely ignored Tinubu’s
candidates, he included that of another South-
West bigwig. Obasanjo’s favourite-son, Prince
Olagusoye Oyinlola, former governor of Osun
State, was included in Buhari’s list. Thereby, the
president asserted the saliency of Obasanjo’s
South-West influence in Aso Rock over that of the
Jagaban. He even pointedly appointed Obasanjo
as his special envoy to Guinea-Bissau.
This is certainly not what Tinubu bargained for
when he decided to pitch his tent with Buhari and
the APC. If he were to be furthermore overlooked
in the appointment of BOT chairman of the APC,
the marginalisation of the Jagaban in the post-
election APC would be complete.
Comeuppance: Some of us saw this coming. In
the heady early days of the APC coalition, we
warned that Tinubu would be used and dumped.
But we were labelled as PDP lapdogs and
charlatans. That is why I say today: let no one
cry for Bola Tinubu.
Anyone who hears Tinubu’s recent vicious attack
on Saraki would realise these are the tokens of a
frustrated man. Tinubu could not attack the
President, therefore he poured all his venom on
the Senate President. He accused him of
indiscipline and disloyalty; the very things he
celebrated in the PDP rebels who joined forces
with him against their party in 2011.
Face saving device
The recent declaration that Buhari appointed
Babachir Lawal as Secretary to the Government
of the Federation at the instance of Tinubu is a
face-saving device. The Tinubu camp forgot to
tell us this until now. At the time of new SGF’s
appointment, all the uproar was about the
Northern lopsidedness in Buhari’s choices.
Observing the sidelining of Tinubu by Buhari,
Senator Femi Okunroumu said: “I am having a
good laugh. This is what I expected. In any case,
Tinubu is stretching his luck too far as he wants
to dictate who will rule Nigeria. Tinubu’s wings
need to be clipped. With the ministerial list,
Tinubu has been dumped. He should not just be
dumped, he should be disgraced.”
On his part, Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo
Adebanjo, said: “APC is not a party; it is a gang
of people whose sole aim was to remove Dr.
Goodluck Jonathan as president. In a real party,
you share the spoils of office before elections not
after elections. This is what is happening in
APC. We warned our people, but they failed to
listen.”
In the new politics of today’s APC, it is better to
be the enemy of Bola Tinubu than to be his
friend. The enemies of Tinubu become Senate
presidents; they become Speakers of the House of
Representatives; they become ministers of the
Federal government. But the friends of Tinubu
are sent to Siberia.
The Jagaban of Borgu himself has been slain
politically upon his high places. How are the
mighty fallen! 2 Likes |
Re: Don't Cry For Tinubu - Femi Aribasala by IAMTHEHERO: 10:11am On Oct 20, 2015 |
I so much like this man's write-up |
Re: Don't Cry For Tinubu - Femi Aribasala by alaoeri: 10:12am On Oct 20, 2015 |
The bittered Aribisala & his usual rants besides where was he when the SGF said Tinubu & Akande are behind this nomination as the SGF? So Lai Muhammad, Fayemi & co are no more Tinubu's allies abeg Aribisala should face his pastorship full time & leave politics alone because all these while his rants doesn't hold an iota of water. |
Re: Don't Cry For Tinubu - Femi Aribasala by ERODEDEAST(f): 10:14am On Oct 20, 2015 |
Tinubu will cry for himself. 2 Likes |
Re: Don't Cry For Tinubu - Femi Aribasala by Lattop(m): 10:21am On Oct 20, 2015 |
Aribisala or whatsoever ur name is jagaban wil never fall nor cry
Just wait and see 4 ur self |
Re: Don't Cry For Tinubu - Femi Aribasala by Princecalm(m): 10:26am On Oct 20, 2015 |
many don't still understand Nigeria politics, it more than what you are seeing now. |
Re: Don't Cry For Tinubu - Femi Aribasala by IAMTHEHERO: 10:28am On Oct 20, 2015 |
” In the new politics of today’s APC, it is better to be the enemy of Bola Tinubu than to be his friend. Take note for all of you seeking for political posts |
Re: Don't Cry For Tinubu - Femi Aribasala by UmuEri(m): 10:34am On Oct 20, 2015 |
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