The year is 1998 exactly 20 years ago, General Abacha had everything set for him. Not only was he the supreme leader of Africa's most populous Nation but he was about to make a great leap towards legitimizing his vice grip on power by transiting from Military Head-of-State to an "elected" civilian executive President.

All the registered political parties had endorsed Abacha as their preferred candidate and the Military brass had been purged by Abacha of any real or imaginary opponent to his transitional program.

Abacha had even secured from among his strongest critics and opposition (NADECO) one of their prominent members to be his Vice President. That individual was Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Abacha had hoped that with the likes of Tinubu (an erstwhile NADECO member), the June 12 debacle will be crushed. He was right. For Tinubu did not accept Abacha's invitation to join him in govt as VP on his own volition alone rather, Tinubu did consult widely among some NADECO chieftains the deal Abacha had offered to which they all agreed to. It was from this agreement that Abacha assumed he was already solidly the next civilian President.

The Lebanese Businessman, Gilbert Chagourywho was then a major international fixer cum financial money launderer to the Abacha Military regime had already placated the then Clinton led US administration to drop sanctions following the blow back and widespread condemnation that trailed the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Chagoury will achieve all this with a generous and timely donation to the Clinton Foundation on behalf of Abacha.

Life had never been brighter for the Tyrant as he knew that Chagoury could be counted on to lobby the WH and other western Nations further to accept the legitimacy of his emergence as the newly elected civilian President of Nigeria.

The only major hurdle left was to dismantle any local opposition to his civilian transition most notably that echoing from the Southwestern regions of Nigeria. To achieve this Chagoury recommended Bola Tinubu to Abacha as his vice. This will naturally split NADECO and from there the movement will lose steam.

Abacha had now only to contend with time. For all the power he wielded, Abacha had no way to accelerate the clock to 1999 - the year to which he would have "won" a landslide victory over some stand-in candidate.

But Time is no respecter of man. Another force greater than Time itself came to halt Abacha's plans. Plans if he had succeeded, you can bet your last cup of garri he would have still been in Aso Rock.

Fast forward to present day and Tinubu is still trying to assist a Tyrant back into power for his own selfish reasons.

I have always maintained that Tinubu has no principle or morals - this may be his greatest asset coupled with his cunning ability to control and con the ever sheepish SW population to believe that a Tinubu self-serving agenda equates to a win situation for the Yoruba.

The only reason Buhari requires Tinubu in the coming election is not for Tinubu to campaign for him. NO! No amount of airbrushing of Buhari can replicate the feat done by the SW press and online opinion crafters since it is abundantly clear now even to the blind that Buhari is grossly incompetent in all spheres for the job. Neither is Buhari seeking Tinubu to assist him in rigging. NO! Buhari has at his disposal all state machineries and the electoral umpires to return him back to Aso Rock. Rather, the only reason why Buhari needs Tinubu and his band of rascals from the SW is the same reasons why Abacha decided to pick Tinubu as his Vice during the latter's transition program.

Buhari NEEDS Tinubu and the SW APC for only one reason: to not oppose his return as President in 2019 amidst widespread and blatant rigging.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

What's wrong with Nigerians sef... Is tinubu now the masses? If you dont want buhari on that seat then you fvcking go out there and vote out his ass instead of watching these old hags rig all the elections

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dingbang:
What's wrong with Nigerians sef... Is tinubu now the masses? If you dont want buhari on that seat then you fvcking go out there and vote out his ass instead of watching these old hags rig all the elections

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You must understand why Buhari is coveting Tinubu and why Tinubu has accepted Buhari's offers.

It has nothing to do with bettering your already battered state rather it is based on furthering Buhari's tenure in power and greasing Tinubu's leprosy hands.

History shows how Tinubu has consistently aligned with Dictators and against the will of majority of Nigerians just for selfish ambition of being vice president

I don't know where tinubu stands on anything to do with Politics or policy. All I see is a man who will do anything to remain in power.

But God of the ordinary man does not sleep, he will be defeated again

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Olohunjedalo:

Cry cry baby.
Igbos are bastards terrorists

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Ndonu101:
History shows how Tinubu has consistently aligned with Dictators and against the will of majority of Nigerians just for selfish ambition of being vice president

I don't know where tinubu stands on anything to do with Politics or policy. All I see is a man who will do anything to remain in power.

But God of the ordinary man does not sleep, he will be defeated again

We can not and should not blame Tinubu.

It is the idiots that endorse and support him blindly as he tears them a new assh0le we should contend with.

There will always be another Bola Tinubu and this is because the region he comes from endorses characters like him. The next Tinubu will be more greedy and blinded by money.

It is a sign of a failed society where a convicted drug peddler, Political prostitute and race betrayal can emerge as their leader.

Tinubu this, Tinubu that.

Ambode standing up to his is breathe of fresh air.

No matter how much hate you have for Tinubu, he remains the governor who laid the foundation for what Lagos State is today- the most advanced and self reliant state in Nigeria. If you wonder why Lagosians are 'so blind and follow him slavishly', there you have it.

Before you castigate Tinubu, tell us if the governor in your state has liberated the people there and can boast of running the state independent of federal allocation

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zamanii:
No matter how much hate you have for Tinubu, he remains the governor who laid the foundation for what Lagos State is today- the most advanced and self reliant state in Nigeria. If you wonder why Lagosians are 'so blind and follow him slavishly', there you have it.

Before you castigate Tinubu, tell us if the governor in your state has liberated the people there and can boast of running the state independent of federal allocation

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Which infrastructure did Tinubu construct in Lagos that made Lagos what it is?

You people should stop all these your nonesense chest beatings

Lagos is what it is due to Federal funding and other tribes swooning in.

The Yoruba and or LASG are only collecting rent as omonile from other peoples sweat.

If you must know, Lagos witnessed peak closure and movement of industries and companies to neighboring Ogun and adjourning west African nations during his agberoe reign.

TylerDurden:
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Which infrastructure did Tinubu construct in Lagos that made Lagos what it is?

You people should stop all these your nonesense chest beatings

Lagos is what it is due to Federal funding and other tribes swooning in.

The Yoruba and or LASG are only collecting rent as omonile from other peoples sweat.

If you must know, Lagos witnessed peak closure and movement of industries and companies to neighboring Ogun and adjourning west African nations during his agberoe reign.

Don't mind the guy

every Governor of Lagos has always appeared powerful and successful

Go back in history to the likes of Military Administrator Marwa or even former Governors like Otedola

Tinubu is lucky to have been allowed a strangle hold of Lagos. He is nothing special

He should not push his luck too far! It is also a matter of record that Tinubu did not initially favour Ambode. he wanted Hamzat but people protested the continued preference for Muslim Governors in Lagos and all of a sudden Ambode appeared!


I really don't care who within APC is the Lagos Governor. but I hate it when people play God. Tinubu is playing God!

Ndonu101:


Don't mind the guy

every Governor of Lagos has always appeared powerful and successful

Go back in history to the likes of Military Administrator Marwa or even former Governors like Otedola

Tinubu is lucky to have been allowed a strangle hold of Lagos. He is nothing special

He should not push his luck too far! It is also a matter of record that Tinubu did not initially favour Ambode. he wanted Hamzat but people protested the continued preference for Muslim Governors in Lagos and all of a sudden Ambode appeared!


I really don't care who within APC is the Lagos Governor. but I hate it when people play God. Tinubu is playing God!

You dey mind am.

It was the return to democracy that saw an equity sharing formula from the national purse that saw Lagos state wealth jump.

Under Abacha, monies were disbursed to state as he deemed fit but with the return to democracy, constitutional provisions where followed in disbursing revenue through FAAC.

The states and LGAs were also empowered to generate their own revenue as a means of complimenting IGR.

The greedy Tinubu decide to increase LGAs in Lagos inorder to get more from the federal purse which Obasanjo rightly denied him. Yaradua will rescind that decision on the part of the FG in order to placate Tinubu.

Other rubbish Tinubu used to do back then was to rehabilitate federal routes in Lagos like Ikorodu rd from where he will send an outrageous bill to Abuja. Obasanjo told him clearly to steer clear of federal roads and concentrate on the intra city roads in Lagos under his jurisdiction. What did Tinubu do afterwards? Tinubu will mount road signs in strategic locations on federal roads stating: "Bear with us. This is a Federal rd".

The man did virtually nothing in Lagos other than exploit the masses in the guise of tax collection.

Of what benefit is the state govt richer than the impoverished populace even where the state govt refuses to provide needed interventions?

Lagos coffers swelling up only benefits Tinubu and his agberoe crew and not the poor wretched masses who can not figure out they are being screwed on all fronts.

Abiola was betrayed and sold by his own people.

Tinubu has been riding on the wave of Abiola's blood.

They are even celebrating his stolen mandate as a good thing when it is very obvious that Abiola was betrayed by his own people.