The Jagaban of Borgu has been
slain politically upon his high
places. How are the mighty fallen!
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
victory at the centre, only to see
his arch-enemies take over the
posts of Speaker and Senate
President in the Natiuonal
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,
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 ambition 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.
Fashola, in particular, was clearly
fed up with being under Tinubu’s
political shadow. In the struggle
for who would be the APC
gubernatorial candidate in Lagos
State, Tinubu did not allow
Fashola to choose his successor, in
the ignoble tradition of Nigerian
governors. While Fashola
favoured Supo Shasore, 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 a 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 Cardoso,
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
member 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.
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!


www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/don’t-cry-for-bola-tinubu-by-femi-aribisala.131986/

I call it the dymistification of the jagaban dynasty.
Take heart Lagos landlord.

Local champion ludo player.

.

This is why i love igbos. They see things before they happen, but yorubas...

The diary of a wailing wailer.
Femi Aribisala...ur mere wishful thinking.

dougivilla:
The Jagaban of Borgu has been
slain politically upon his high
places. How are the mighty fallen!
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
victory at the centre, only to see
his arch-enemies take over the
posts of Speaker and Senate
President in the Natiuonal
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,
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 ambition 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.
Fashola, in particular, was clearly
fed up with being under Tinubu’s
political shadow. In the struggle
for who would be the APC
gubernatorial candidate in Lagos
State, Tinubu did not allow
Fashola to choose his successor, in
the ignoble tradition of Nigerian
governors. While Fashola
favoured Supo Shasore, 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 a 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 Cardoso,
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
member 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.
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!


www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/don’t-cry-for-bola-tinubu-by-femi-aribisala.131986/

One jobless Nairalander would soon come and quote the whole epistle just because he or she wants to say smh.

Smh!

There is a saying that 'you don't cry more than the bereaved'. Why is Aribisala crying over Tinubu's so called political demystification when Tinubu himself is not crying publicly?

Tinubu should take heart!

It has always been a "dirty game"!!

The greatest challenge Tinubu has politically now is not PDP,rather it is within APC;more specifically from the Northern cabals in APC.

Story of the slaves...
Use and dump
Chai....e dey pain

did obj allow the north who put him in power to dictate to him? no. so why should buhari listen to tinubu. the north doesn't owe the yorubas nothing just as yorubas owe them nothing.. afterall north made obj president and yorubas returned the favour by making buhari president. so tinubu should take a chill pill

No condition is permanent

No condition is permanent. I weep for him

Karanka:
The greatest challenge Tinubu has politically now is not PDP,rather it is within APC;more specifically from the Northern cabals in APC.

Tinubu underestimated the capacity of the northerners to cut him to size.

He thought he was politically astute and that was all that mattered.

A fast one has been played on him. He can cut his losses either by renegotiating for something substantial (if he still has such powers) or moving on to become an opposition, soon enough!