Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday described the crisis rocking the ruling All Progressive Congress as “Old Ambition Virus 2023”.

A statement made available to Daily Independent on Sunday afternoon by his Media Office said the bulk of the bickering within the party is occasioned by the threats of ambition and what people stand to gain.

He said removing Oshiomhole now will amount to showing Ingratitude for all his labour for the APC.

The full statement reads:

The alert responses of Lagos and Ogun state governments, actively supported by the federal machinery, Nigeria was able to quickly identify and isolate the two cases of the novel Coronavirus 19. This action, thus far, has stopped the spread of the disease into the wider community as has been seen in other nations. We are grateful to God and to all those involved in the response effort, particularly the brave and committed medical teams on the frontline.

While Corona has been presently contained in Nigeria, we must be alert to another sickness that seems rampant within a certain segment of society. That sickness is old Ambition-virus 2023. This illness afflicts many in the political class along with their allies in the media.

Those touched by this malady find that their ability to tell time and discern the difference between the present and the future has been strongly impaired. The carriers of this sickness are confused as to the very season our nation now finds itself.

They conflate things, which no sensible person would conflate. The primary symptom of their malady is the driving tendency to believe the events of 2023 will be decided before we even exit the year 2020.
Consequently, everything they say and do is geared toward obsessive jockeying for position to control and manipulate a race still three years away. In doing so, they recklessly undermine the very party which they claim to serve and weaken the administration of President Buhari to which they claim to be loyal.

They line up to run a race for which the track has not even yet been constructed. Put another way, they seek to pluck the fruit before the seed is even planted. As such, their actions border on the pathological. True, ambition is inherent in human endeavour.

Without it, nothing great is achieved. However, strong ambition applied in the wrong way has never done anything positive. At best, it results in confusion. Usually,It results in something worse. No matter how great one’s ambition and how able one may be, nobody can rush or speed time. That is beyond the realm of human capacity. To do so is to contest against fate itself. When it ends, such a contest rarely ends well.



In a well-structured society, people come to understand that the time for politics is seasonal; it is periodic. The responsibilities of governance are what is perpetual. Many of our politicians sadly have inverted this reality. Politics and electioneering are secondary to governance for they are but tools of governance, the platforms by which one demonstrates his or her worthiness to lead a great people.

The more a person obsesses over and constantly engages in political manoeuvring is a warning sign. Not only is he prone to the 2023 virus. He likely has little to offer in the way of good governance.

He wants to hold public office that you might serve him not he serve you. For if he had adequately studied and been acquainted with the ways and means of progressive governance, he would be focused on that important task at the present moment. He certainly would not drown himself and all around him in harmful political intrigue.

It is against this backdrop that we should view the present ploys and plots to undermine the APC National Chairman. The Chairman is human; thus, he has his merits as well as his flaws. Yet his humanity cannot be grounds for his dismissal. If so, the position will forever go vacant.

The Chairman has been a tireless campaigner and mobilizer for the party. He has steered the party through difficult elections. His contributions should not be undervalued now that the bulk of elections are behind us. To do so would be an act of ingratitude. It is no secret that the Chairman and Edo Governor Obaseki are in dispute. This is unfortunate.

However, the party has moved through proper procedures within the proper organs of the party to hopefully resolve this spat. All party members know this. Such decisions are part and parcel of internal party governance. Yet, motivated by ambitions that have nothing to do with the quality of the Chairman’s performance, people shunned the agreed party reconciliation mechanism and resorted to other means to oust him. These self-help attempts are unwarranted. These attempts reveal more about the mala fides of their perpetrators than they do about the Chairman.

The plotters launched their attack solely because they perceive the chairman as an obstacle to their 2023 ambitions. People went to court knowing full well the party constitution prohibits such action because these people had not yet exhausted all internal disciplinary procedures. We even had a national deputy secretary improperly call for an NEC meeting on the basis that he believed himself the acting national chairman. Clearly, this man would not have summoned the temerity to make such a move had he not been instigated by powerful individuals who he thought would reward or, at least, protect him for committing the wrongful act.


https://www.independent.ng/removing-oshiomhole-now-will-be-act-of-ingratitude-for-all-hes-done-for-apc-tinubu/

Oshiomhole is gone forever with your ambition dead as dodo.

If you no go vote Ibo, abooki continues titi lai lai!

Tinubu's statement saved Amotekun issue
Now that he has supported Oshio, let's see if it can save him too

Ghenghen. Wailers, come and cry here as usual.

do you plant before clearing?
of course not,
you 've gotta clear the bush thoroughly before planting.
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thats the case of oshio baba...

Finally.
It is really sad seeing people like El rufai,Bagudu,Bindow who win election not on their merit but on the name of Buhari along with Ameachi who doesn't even control a ward in Rivers side by side Obaseki a sitting governor who lost his polling unit,ward,local government to the opposition try to rest control by coup of the APC it is indeed sad.

you speak in parable sir

Omnivalent:
do you plant before clearing?
of course not,
you 've gotta clear the bush thoroughly before planting.
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thats the case of oshio baba...

Only God knows who will be alive till 2023... Let us face 2020 first

Abi ooo. 2023 will come and go sha..then they move to 2027

Olunmercy56:
Only God knows who will be alive till 2023... Let us face 2020 first

Hmmm

Op, this one na Tinubu and Oshio tori Sabina coronavirus tori?

Tinubu no know which one to shook mouth put first. Whether an Sanusi own oh abi na Oshio own oh, baba just tire for the kind work wey the North give am.

Everybody go dey alright las las

Dem don give am further maths to solve without calculator.

Lol.

The same Tinubu who one Jew said was betrayed by Oshomole?

As usual, it has fallen like a pack of cards.

BAT for 2023, inhabitants of red mud can go drink lamidi cownu's urine.

Simplyleo:
Lol.

The same Tinubu who one Jew said was betrayed by Oshomole?

As usual, it has fallen like a pack of cards.

BAT for 2023, inhabitants of red mud can go drink lamidi cownu's urine.

That one thought he could rope Tinubu into their madness. Or trying to know Tinubus position.

SciLab:
Oshiomhole is gone forever with your ambition dead as dodo.

If you no go vote Ibo, abooki continues titi lai lai!

Tinubu Your tribe hated will help you to vote Igbo.

What made igbo dislike tinubu is what will make him emerge the president

Onijagidijagan:

Tinubu Your tribe hated will help you to vote Igbo.

He nor get choice, na either Igbo or Awusa. Because yoruba no go enter there again until Igbo take their turn. Na the plan be that. Na turn by turn, federal character.

If Ibo no enter, yoruba sef no go smell am. Una go wait till una get sense.

hisexcellency34:
Tinubu's statement saved Amotekun issue
Now that he has supported Oshio, let's see if it can save him too

It's actually a cryptic message. The target knows the meaning of what he passed.

Jagaban has spoken. The greatest of all has spoken .

“2023 Virus “

Too bad while they say they are loyal to Buhari Their deeds say otherwise. Buhari did a lot , Tinubu did a lot for APC to stand yet some wants to destroy this hard Labour . So sad embarassed

Tinubu just gave them uppercut, atleast we know whose side his faction would be on when ever any NEC meeting is summoned

Now on Obaseki's side he has ElRufai , Ameachi, Fayemi as strong men, on Oshiomhole's side he has Tinubu, Osinbajo,Hope Uzodinma, Babangana Zulum, Ganduje, Gbajabiamila, Lawan and many senators and house of Representative members..

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Jagaban

SciLab:
Oshiomhole is gone forever with your ambition dead as dodo.

If you no go vote Ibo, abooki continues titi lai lai!

5%ters sef ..


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Simplyleo:
Lol.

The same Tinubu who one Jew said was betrayed by Oshomole?

As usual, it has fallen like a pack of cards.

BAT for 2023, inhabitants of red mud can go drink lamidi cownu's urine.

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SciLab:


Ewedu gobbling mouths sef....

Shiity looking Nsalla licker sef

hisexcellency34:
Tinubu's statement saved Amotekun issue
Now that he has supported Oshio, let's see if it can save him too

Are you drunk? How did his statement save amotekun. He was pretty indecisive with his statement.

Tinubu this tinubu that, the real king makers are scheming for 2023, those are the people that want Oshiomole out.

No condition is permanent

AroleOduduwa2:


Are you drunk? How did his statement save amotekun. He was pretty indecisive with his statement.

Tinubu this tinubu that, the real king makers are scheming for 2023, those are the people that want Oshiomole out.

Shut up and go and sit down
You are not making sense !!!

Olunmercy56:
Only God knows who will be alive till 2023... Let us face 2020 first

Especially with coro still in town and looking for old people to take home.

Oh ! I thought someone said in a post that oshiomole incurred TIinubu’s wrath that’s why he was removed and I am bold to say oshiomole is gone and even Tinubu is helpless about it...

Baba na toothless bulldog now
You called Fulani like Afonja called Alimi
Now they have taken over

Finally he found his voice