I do not like to delve into matters touching
and concerning the APC because I am not a
member.

However what is happening in the ruling
party today transcends partisan politics and
should be a concern to us all. At the very
least we can learn some very hard lessons
from it.

The truth is that the behaviour of Chief John
Odige-Oyegun towards the man that single-
handedly made him the National Chairman
of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is
reprehensible.

And neither does this matter begin or end
with the way and manner in which the Ondo
state governorship primaries were conducted
or its final outcome.

It goes much deeper than that and the Ondo
affair is only symptomatic of a much deeper
malaise and wider conspiracy to humiliate
the National Leader of the APC by forces
within his party that are even greater than
him.

Those forces represent the hidden hand.
They are a small cabal of power brokers
who constitute the leadership of the Buhari-
led CPC. These people believe that they
were born to rule and that they own Nigeria.

They simply used Tinubu’s old ACN as a
compliant and ready piggy-back to catapult
their way back to power and once they
achieved that they never looked back.

Some of us warned Tinubu at the time about
the dangers of riding the tiger and allowing
himself to be used by these very dark and
sinister forces but he would not listen.

No true student of history could have made
such a cataclysmic and monumental error
given the terrible experiences of others from
the south-west, and indeed the entire south,
who collaborated with such ultra-
conservative, sectarian and arcane forces
with a clear and distinct ethnic and religious
agenda in the past.

Such forces can never be comfortable with
a well-connected, highly sophisticated,
independent-minded, strong, unpredictable,
uncontrollable and experienced Yoruba
leader and southern gladiator with a June
12th pedigree, a NADECO background, a
massive war-chest and a widespread and
formidable political base.

They may use him to achieve their objective
but they can never trust him or allow him to
have control of the party machinery or to
wield any real power when it comes to
running the affairs of the nation.

Most importantly once they have finished
using him it becomes their duty and cardinal
objective not just to cut him down to size
but also to castrate and render him impotent
and eventually destroy him.

That is their way. It is also a classic and
vintage Nicollo Machiavelli move. This great
writer that has had more influence on
political thinking and strategies than perhaps
any other author in human history taught us
a critical and crucial lesson in his famous
14th century literary masterpiece and
treatise on the power game titled “The
Prince”. He tells us that the first thing that
a Prince must do once he has achieved
power is to destroy those that put him
there.

And that is precisely what those that seek
to do Tinubu in are doing. Worst still they
are using his own erstwhile disciples as a
first line of attack against him.

It is not just Odige-Oyegun that has turned
his back on him but also his former political
protegees and former ACN associates like
Tunde Fashola, Ibikunle Amosu, Kayode
Fayemi, Biodun Ajimobi, Olorunimbe
Mamora, Niyi Adebayo, Rotimi Akeredolu and
numerous others.

Pulling the strings from behind the scenes
and encouraging and funding the rebellion
are hardline Buhari-supporters like my good
friend Governor Nasir El Rufai and a number
of others.

Their objective is to establish a new political
order in the south west which is beholden to
them alone, to replace Tinubu as the
National Leader of the party and to utterly
demystify and crush him in order to prepare
the ground for the emergence of a new and
more compliant Yoruba running mate for
either Buhari himself or El Rufai in 2019.

As a graphic illustration of this interesting
and unfolding agenda, the powers that be in
the APC, led by Buhari himself, fired six
shots at Tinubu immediately after they
formed government.

The first was the Senate Presidency affair
and the Bukola Saraki matter which saw the
defeat and humiliation of Tinubu’s preferred
candidate for Senate President.

The second shot was the Speaker of the
House of Representatives affair and the
Yakubu Dogara matter which, again, saw the
defeat and humiliation of Tinubu’s preferred
candidate for the position of Speaker of the
House.

The third was the vital issue of Ministerial
appointments in which not one single
Ministerial nominee of Tinubu’s was
accepted and appointed as a Minister by
Buhari.

Every single person that he nominated from
the south west and elsewhere as Minister
was rejected and instead the slots were
filled by his political adversaries and/or their
nominees.

Many erroneously believe that Mr. Lai
Mohammed, who is from Kwara state, was
Tinubu’s choice and nominee for Minister of
Information but this was not the case.

The person that he nominated for Minister
of Information was not Lai Mohammed but
Mr. Dele Alake, his former Commissioner of
Information in Lagos state.

Continued
Again he nominated Mr. Wale Edun, his
former Commissioner of Finance in Lagos
state, for the position of Minister of Finance
but this was rejected and Governor Ibikunle
Amosu’s candidate, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, got
the job instead.

This went on across the board for every
single person that Tinubu nominated and
presented for the position of Minister last
year and it was a terrible humiliation for him.
It was a dirty slap in his face.

The fourth shot was the James Faleke
matter in Kogi state where it was agreed by
the real landlords of the APC in the core
north that Tinubu must not be allowed to
gain a foothold in the north central zone by
getting his own Yoruba kinsman and
candidate to be elected as governor of that
state.

Hence Faleke was ruthlessly dropped and
shabbily treated and another person was
selected to be the gubernatorial candidate
of that state. It worked, Faleke went to
court and sadly he lost. That was the end of
the story.

The fifth shot is the thorough and
systematic, though subtle and covert,
humiliation and relegation of Vice President
Yemi Osinbajo, a close associate and
political protegee of Tinubu and a spiritual
son of the revered Pastor Enoch Adeboye of
The Redeemed Christian Church of God
(RCCG), to not just a spare tyre as Vice
President but also to a very flat one.

Rather than being allowed to participate in
the crucial decision-making processes on
vital and critical issues of state and
governance as any Vice President should,
Osinbajo has been kept in the dark about
virtually everything and he has little or no
power to effect anything.

When such decisions are to be debated,
discussed and made the Vice President is
never invited into the room and neither is he
even aware that there is such a meeting
going on.

Worse still he is constantly being directed to
represent the President at official functions
all over the country as if he were more his
Personal Assistant, Special Advisor or
Minister rather than the Vice President of
the country. Osinbajo’s crime is simply that
he is loyal to Tinubu and he has refused to
dump or betray him.

The sixth and perhaps most devastating shot
is the fact that the party machinery has not
only been taken away from Tinubu with the
effective hijacking of Odige-Oyegun but that
it has also opted to do the bidding of his
mortal enemies and to fight him.

An eloquent testimony to this disturbing fact
is the outcome of the Ondo state
gubernatorial primaries, where Tinubu’s
candidate was edged out and cheated of the
nomination by the party leadership.

This was the last straw that broke the
camel’s back and predictably Tinubu has
reacted in a very loud, aggressive and
profound manner by publicly calling for the
removal of the National Chairman of the
party.

Yet calling for the removal of Odigie-Oyegun
is not enough. The whole situation calls for
critical thinking, sober reflection and deep
retrospection.

The point that needs to be clearly
understood when considering these six shots
and the unfolding anti-Tinubu agenda within
the APC is the fact that, contrary to all
pretensions, President Muhammadu Buhari
is part and parcel of it and he is in fact the
moving spirit behind the whole conspiracy.

Nasir El Rufai and a number of others are
simply the strategists and enforcers. Buhari,
Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari are the
masterminds.

Given all this one thing is clear: these
people want Tinubu dead. If he does not
realign quickly and fight hard to save his
dwindling political fortunes and empire his
APC friends and allies will destroy him in a
slow, clinical, sadistic and systematic
manner. And they will do it with a big,
beautiful and friendly smile on their faces.

The fact of the matter is that, right from the
outset, Tinubu failed to accept the fact that
he was in bed with demons.

He refused to appreciate the fact that he
was sleeping with beasts that are hell bent
on eating his flesh, drinking his blood and
ruthlessly implementing an ancient ethnic
and religious agenda.

He gave them his all, caused them to win an
election and trusted them to honour their
word and treat him with respect and
decorum. He failed to appreciate the fact
that you cannot make a deal with snakes
and expect them to honour their word.

He forgot that you cannot wine and dine
with cancerous lepers and hungry tigers
without ending up being served as the final
dish in a long, blood-curdling and Byzantian
satanic feast.

Yet if the truth is to be told, no matter what
mistakes he may have made, Tinubu does
not deserve to be treated in this way.

Up until the Presidential elections were
conducted last year he led and held together
the south-western wing of the APC with an
iron fist and he was the undisputed leader of
the APC in that zone.

All four APC governors from the south west
and virtually every single party leader waited
on his every word and he called all the
shots.

Sadly today, just over one year later, he is a
caricature of his former self. Today Tinubu
can only boast of having the ear and the full
support of only two of those governors,
namely Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state, who
will NEVER betray him no matter what, and
Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos state who will
also stand firmly behind him until the very
end.

The truth is that Tinubu has lost much
ground and political mileage in recent times
and, as more daggers are pulled out over
the next few months and years it is bound
to get worse for him.

Yet that does not mean that he is finished. I
say this because he is a tried and tested
fighter and a formidable adversary who is
quite capable of pulling the whole APC
house down.

It would be a fatal error for any of his
adversaries, including President Buhari, Vice
President Atiku Abubakar or Senate
President Bukola Saraki, to underestimate
him or dismiss his ability to fight back.

In July 2016, just after my release from
detention and during the course of an
interview with Channels Television (which
can still be viewed on Youtube) Mr. Seun
Okinbaloye asked me whether I could ever
contemplate going back to the APC and how
I thought the ruling party would fare into the
future.

I told him that I would NEVER go back to
the APC under ANY circumstances. I also
told him that in any case by 2019 there
would not be an APC, as it is presently
constituted, left because the party would
have spilt up into three separate and distinct
political entities.

I told him that the Tinubu group comprising
of men like Baba Bisi Akande, Rauf
Aregbesola, Akinwummi Ambode and others
would establish one party, the Atiku
Abubakar group comprising of men like
Bukola Saraki, Rabiu Kwakwanso and many
of the former PDP leaders and governors
that had left for the APC when President
Goodluck Jonathan was in power would
establish another and that the Buhari group
comprising of men like Nasir El Rufai, Bello
Masari, Aminu Tambuwal, Rotimi Amaechi,
Rochas Okorocha, Chris Ngige, Ogbonaya
Onu, Adams Oshiomole and virtually the
entire structure of the old CPC leadership in
the core north would constitute yet another.

I stand by this prediction.
These three strong and equally forceful
factions can be likened to the proverbial
three blind yet ravenous wolves.

They cannot stay in the same cage or
remain on the same platform for long
without tearing each other to pieces.
Eventually they will all go their separate
ways and, hopefully, contend with a newly-
branded and reinvigorated PDP in the field
of battle in 2019.

What we are witnessing today in the ranks
of the APC is the beginning of that bitter
separation and messy divorce and it is going
to get far worse.

It will be loud, bitter, acrimonious and
rancorous and many political empires,
careers and aspirations will be destroyed as
a consequence of it.

My hope and prayer is that the PDP, which
is also going through its own rigorous
process of redefinition and reinvigoration,
can get its act together before then, take
advantage of the situation, pick up the
pieces and win the presidential election in
2019. I am sure that we will.

Meanwhile my advice to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
is to watch his back, consolidate his base,
fight his enemies, reach out to new friends,
accept the fact that he is at war and sleep
with one eye wide open. The truth is that it
will get far worse before it gets any better.

www.thecable.ng

If Jagaban operated in the USA, the bounty on his head would be so large that youths will start getting firearms just to get the cash. His crimes and misdeeds to the SW is so damn able and dictatorial. Wonder how he sleeps with all these thoughts. He should expect such. He isn't a clean man.


who agrees,

Fani Kayode is so on point on this

Ffk pls mind your business/party!

Wetin concern agbero for office work

shaddoww:
Continued
He forgot that you cannot wine and dine
with cancerous lepers and hungry tigers
without ending up being served as the final
dish in a long, blood-curdling and Byzantian
satanic feast.

Yet if the truth is to be told, no matter what
mistakes he may have made, Tinubu does
not deserve to be treated in this way.

Up until the Presidential elections were
conducted last year he led and held together
the south-western wing of the APC with an
iron fist and he was the undisputed leader of
the APC in that zone.

All four APC governors from the south west
and virtually every single party leader waited
on his every word and he called all the
shots.

Sadly today, just over one year later, he is a
caricature of his former self. Today Tinubu
can only boast of having the ear and the full
support of only two of those governors,
namely Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state, who
will NEVER betray him no matter what, and
Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos state who will
also stand firmly behind him until the very
end.

The truth is that Tinubu has lost much
ground and political mileage in recent times
and, as more daggers are pulled out over
the next few months and years it is bound
to get worse for him.

Yet that does not mean that he is finished. I
say this because he is a tried and tested
fighter and a formidable adversary who is
quite capable of pulling the whole APC
house down.

It would be a fatal error for any of his
adversaries, including President Buhari, Vice
President Atiku Abubakar or Senate
President Bukola Saraki, to underestimate
him or dismiss his ability to fight back.

In July 2016, just after my release from
detention and during the course of an
interview with Channels Television (which
can still be viewed on Youtube) Mr. Seun
Okinbaloye asked me whether I could ever
contemplate going back to the APC and how
I thought the ruling party would fare into the
future.

I told him that I would NEVER go back to
the APC under ANY circumstances. I also
told him that in any case by 2019 there
would not be an APC, as it is presently
constituted, left because the party would
have spilt up into three separate and distinct
political entities.

I told him that the Tinubu group comprising
of men like Baba Bisi Akande, Rauf
Aregbesola, Akinwummi Ambode and others
would establish one party, the Atiku
Abubakar group comprising of men like
Bukola Saraki, Rabiu Kwakwanso and many
of the former PDP leaders and governors
that had left for the APC when President
Goodluck Jonathan was in power would
establish another and that the Buhari group
comprising of men like Nasir El Rufai, Bello
Masari, Aminu Tambuwal, Rotimi Amaechi,
Rochas Okorocha, Chris Ngige, Ogbonaya
Onu, Adams Oshiomole and virtually the
entire structure of the old CPC leadership in
the core north would constitute yet another.

I stand by this prediction.
These three strong and equally forceful
factions can be likened to the proverbial
three blind yet ravenous wolves.

They cannot stay in the same cage or
remain on the same platform for long
without tearing each other to pieces.
Eventually they will all go their separate
ways and, hopefully, contend with a newly-
branded and reinvigorated PDP in the field
of battle in 2019.

What we are witnessing today in the ranks
of the APC is the beginning of that bitter
separation and messy divorce and it is going
to get far worse.

It will be loud, bitter, acrimonious and
rancorous and many political empires,
careers and aspirations will be destroyed as
a consequence of it.

My hope and prayer is that the PDP, which
is also going through its own rigorous
process of redefinition and reinvigoration,
can get its act together before then, take
advantage of the situation, pick up the
pieces and win the presidential election in
2019. I am sure that we will.

Meanwhile my advice to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
is to watch his back, consolidate his base,
fight his enemies, reach out to new friends,
accept the fact that he is at war and sleep
with one eye wide open. The truth is that it
will get far worse before it gets any better.

www.thecable.ng

word of wisdom from the only wise ypruba man left and the only leaving yoruba man i respect after fayose...tinubu must suffer for his ignorance of history