Election season is fast approaching again and both contenders and the usual pretenders are dropping their hats into the ring for consideration.

One of the contenders who later became a pretender and is now trying to make himself a serious contender again is Bola Ahmed Tinubu. From holding birthday colloquium in the core northern city of Kano to donating generously to the Arewa House library and internally displaced persons in the North Central to burnish his national credentials, Tinubu has been running from pillar to post, trying to make himself look like a nationalistic figure as opposed to the Southwest political godfather that he really is.

The truth is, Tinubu cannot be a national politician because he is a regional leader in thought and action and can never be a national leader. He stays in Lagos and tries to be the big roster that doesn’t allow smaller ones crow for a reason.

I don’t want Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Nigeria’s next president. I don’t even want him dreaming about participating in politics or dreaming about leading anything or anyone again. He is part of the generation that does not know when enough is enough and will not bow out when the ovation is loudest but until when the audience starts to throw stones and empty bottles.

2023 is election year and the same old, faded and empty heads decorated with fancy caps are going round making useless ‘consultations’ to justify why they are contesting.

Why they cannot trust a younger, more vibrant and intelligent person without the garbage they are having will shock only a non-Nigerian.

Like the proverbial masquerade that will not think of returning to its sacred grove until it has been booed out of the market, our politicians do not stop thinking they are indispensable until they are humiliated. Tinubu has so many negatives going against him that his aides are trying mightily to paper over but that I will discuss here as some of the reasons why we must not be delivered of eight wasted years and enter another possible eight years of darkness and excuses. A Tinubu presidency will convey to all of us, a better understanding of what Senator Alli Ndume meant when he said he saw ‘light at the end of the toilet’.

I will start with his age. Despite being officially ’69’, everyone knows he is lying and that he is considerably older than that.

His dishonesty about his age was the reason why he has not been able to confirm the years he attended schools, his classmates and even the name of the schools he attended.

Tinubu is old and by now, I am sure we have had enough of old people who struggle to win elections only to start moving in and out of hospitals instead of working as expected. Let him go and take care of his failing health.

Let him enjoy his money for a change instead of working hard to amass wealth and not having the opportunity to spend it. He should visit a dentist while at it and have his teeth properly cleaned and washed. Let him buy a treadmill and exercise. He can also ‘work’ to make even more money to be kept in bullion vans, so that he can tell us with all the arrogance he can muster, that he can keep his money wherever he liked and move it in bullion vans any time.

A lawless person cannot be relied upon to keep the spirit of the law in a country with weak and compromised national institutions like Nigeria. There will be no check and balances to control his excesses in office.

His carefully crafted persona of a ‘manager of men and resources’ is fake the same way the persona of integrity was created for someone we all know and whose utterances and actions have been the opposite of integrity and accountability. He doesn’t have what it takes to manage a country like Nigeria. His gaffes are too many to be overlooked. From proposing the recruitment of fifty million young people to fight insecurity who would be fed ‘cassava, maize and agbado’ like area boys under Oshodi bridge to ‘converting empty land to grazing areas’ to placate northern power brokers, he has proven that he is nothing without the legion of aides he relies on to carry out everything. If he cannot lead policies, how can he ensure that right things are being done? He will become another ‘economic illiterate’ who will not allow his deputy outshine him.

His opaque history is filled with too many gaps. When did he attend those schools? Who are his classmates? Who were his teachers? How many of them can go on the record to say they attended the same school with him? If he cannot come clean on simple things like the name of his schools, he cannot be trusted to lead a whole country with openness and accountability.

Who is Bola Ahmed Tinubu? Nobody knows exactly who he is since his origins, real names and vital information that could allow people make informed decisions about him are not in the pubic domain or subject of controversies like his ties with Iragbiji in Osun state and his real parents. Late Lam Adesina said he assigned four teachers to go through the records of Government College Ibadan from inception to 2003 and they never saw any ‘Bola Ahmed Tinubu’ on the student lists.

Will he be fair enough to every region or will he be a slave to the ‘Unseen’ cabal manipulating things in this country? Tinubu will rather please the powers that be than do the right thing because he is a sycophantic hustler and an establishment person himself.

Does he have the moral authority to fight corruption when he himself had already been put under the searchlight of EFCC for corrupt enrichment several times? What happens if his past catch up with him and the FBI request for his extradition like one Mr. Abba Kyari of the police?

Will he be able to sever his ties with NURTW thugs and deal with them if required? Very unlikely. The foundation of his aura of invisibility in Lagos is the National Union of Road Transport Workers aka ‘Agberos’ who command an economy that generates more revenue than at least 32 Nigerian states. Many of the NURTW officials are rich and will do anything to ensure their freedoms are not disturbed. Tinubu is the assurance, the liaison and the bridge between them and the officialdom they require to continue making money illegally without hindrance. In return, they offer their manpower and the perceived ability to unleash violence to him on demand. This was what happened in Lagos during the 2019 elections when the NURTW thugs were unleashed in some areas where the election seemed not to be going according to plan. Will Tinubu be able to turn his back on his primary constituency, the NURTW, if he becomes a president? Your guess is as good as mine.

Will he remain healthy enough to perform? Not likely. He will most likely continue to travel abroad to ‘see his doctors because he has been using them for over forty years and they have his records’ according to the current excuse being offered on behalf of the current incumbent of the position Tinubu is craving.

Will he make any difference? Not likely because he won’t implement any policy that will change the status quo. Roads will remain terrible, electricity will still be epileptic, unemployment will still be high except for thugs and insecurity will worsen.

These are some of the reasons why Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu aka Amoda Sangodele of Iragbiji town cannot be our president.

With rejection of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I hereby take a stand against same of the same and sign up for a new Nigeria.

These old professional politicians will never retire from the scene because they are not decent and don’t know how to bow out when the ovation is loudest. The Nigerian people must give them their pension plan and ensure they stick to it.

Olaide Omideyi is a conflict management, post-conflict reintegration and economic development expert with over two decades experience with international organisations including the United Nations. He writes from Abeokuta, Ogun state and can be reached on +2347032356295, omideyi3259@gmail.

Own goal

I better leave before the stones starts raining down.

Nigerians already knows.

Prof Olaide omideyi is IPob from land of Biafra, according to the cursed urchins Tinubu deranged supporters

What makes you think he can't be a president... simply put you personally hate him

chenny360:
What makes you think he can't be a president... simply put you personally hate him

See Dem

The real upset will be in 2022 before the election in 2023

Osibanjo/Zulum are the next president and vice of Nigeria!

Watch his miscreants supporters on this forum tag him ipob member.

"Eight years of Darkness and Excuses" is carefully noted! Thanks

Advocate500:
Watch his miscreants supporters on this forum tag him ipob member.

That's there regular trademark mark ™️ if you don't support Tinubu

Please who are u

We need an election to decide if he is fit or not fit to be president and MILLIONS of Nigerian voters will make this decision.

Watch his mummified zombies start the name calling and avoid the critical facts highlighted in the write up.

Incisive, Mr. Olaide!
The below excerpt sums up everything:

"Tinubu will rather please the powers that be than do the right thing because he is a sycophantic hustler

Does he have the moral authority to fight corruption when he himself had already been put under the searchlight of EFCC for corrupt enrichment several times?

Despite being officially ’69’, everyone knows he is lying and that he is considerably older than that. His dishonesty about his age was the reason why he has not been able to confirm the years he attended schools, his classmates and even the name of the schools he attended."

The foundation of his aura of invisibility in Lagos is the National Union of Road Transport Workers aka ‘Agberos’ who command an economy that generates more revenue than at least 32 Nigerian states. Many of the NURTW officials are rich and will do anything to ensure their freedoms are not disturbed. Tinubu is the assurance, the liaison and the bridge between them and the officialdom they require to continue making money illegally without hindrance. In return, they offer their manpower and the perceived ability to unleash violence to him on demand

That a renowned criminal like Tinubu could even muster the effrontery to aspire for presidency shows how decayed our value system is.
He, alongside his legion of deranged id!ots promoting his candidacy with the hope of extending their Lagos looting empire to our coffers in Abuja will soon be disgraced.

Ma gee
It is well....


It is because of tinubu supporters na why davido sing for him music... SUFFER NO DEY TIRE U...

Na the same useless papa born tinubu and Buhari.... They are useless people....

pavoda:
Election season is fast approaching again and both contenders and the usual pretenders are dropping their hats into the ring for consideration.

One of the contenders who later became a pretender and is now trying to make himself a serious contender again is Bola Ahmed Tinubu. From holding birthday colloquium in the core northern city of Kano to donating generously to the Arewa House library and internally displaced persons in the North Central to burnish his national credentials, Tinubu has been running from pillar to post, trying to make himself look like a nationalistic figure as opposed to the Southwest political godfather that he really is.

The truth is, Tinubu cannot be a national politician because he is a regional leader in thought and action and can never be a national leader. He stays in Lagos and tries to be the big roster that doesn’t allow smaller ones crow for a reason.

I don’t want Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Nigeria’s next president. I don’t even want him dreaming about participating in politics or dreaming about leading anything or anyone again. He is part of the generation that does not know when enough is enough and will not bow out when the ovation is loudest but until when the audience starts to throw stones and empty bottles.

2023 is election year and the same old, faded and empty heads decorated with fancy caps are going round making useless ‘consultations’ to justify why they are contesting.

Why they cannot trust a younger, more vibrant and intelligent person without the garbage they are having will shock only a non-Nigerian.

Like the proverbial masquerade that will not think of returning to its sacred grove until it has been booed out of the market, our politicians do not stop thinking they are indispensable until they are humiliated. Tinubu has so many negatives going against him that his aides are trying mightily to paper over but that I will discuss here as some of the reasons why we must not be delivered of eight wasted years and enter another possible eight years of darkness and excuses. A Tinubu presidency will convey to all of us, a better understanding of what Senator Alli Ndume meant when he said he saw ‘light at the end of the toilet’.

I will start with his age. Despite being officially ’69’, everyone knows he is lying and that he is considerably older than that.

His dishonesty about his age was the reason why he has not been able to confirm the years he attended schools, his classmates and even the name of the schools he attended.

Tinubu is old and by now, I am sure we have had enough of old people who struggle to win elections only to start moving in and out of hospitals instead of working as expected. Let him go and take care of his failing health.

Let him enjoy his money for a change instead of working hard to amass wealth and not having the opportunity to spend it. He should visit a dentist while at it and have his teeth properly cleaned and washed. Let him buy a treadmill and exercise. He can also ‘work’ to make even more money to be kept in bullion vans, so that he can tell us with all the arrogance he can muster, that he can keep his money wherever he liked and move it in bullion vans any time.

A lawless person cannot be relied upon to keep the spirit of the law in a country with weak and compromised national institutions like Nigeria. There will be no check and balances to control his excesses in office.

His carefully crafted persona of a ‘manager of men and resources’ is fake the same way the persona of integrity was created for someone we all know and whose utterances and actions have been the opposite of integrity and accountability. He doesn’t have what it takes to manage a country like Nigeria. His gaffes are too many to be overlooked. From proposing the recruitment of fifty million young people to fight insecurity who would be fed ‘cassava, maize and agbado’ like area boys under Oshodi bridge to ‘converting empty land to grazing areas’ to placate northern power brokers, he has proven that he is nothing without the legion of aides he relies on to carry out everything. If he cannot lead policies, how can he ensure that right things are being done? He will become another ‘economic illiterate’ who will not allow his deputy outshine him.

His opaque history is filled with too many gaps. When did he attend those schools? Who are his classmates? Who were his teachers? How many of them can go on the record to say they attended the same school with him? If he cannot come clean on simple things like the name of his schools, he cannot be trusted to lead a whole country with openness and accountability.

Who is Bola Ahmed Tinubu? Nobody knows exactly who he is since his origins, real names and vital information that could allow people make informed decisions about him are not in the pubic domain or subject of controversies like his ties with Iragbiji in Osun state and his real parents. Late Lam Adesina said he assigned four teachers to go through the records of Government College Ibadan from inception to 2003 and they never saw any ‘Bola Ahmed Tinubu’ on the student lists.

Will he be fair enough to every region or will he be a slave to the ‘Unseen’ cabal manipulating things in this country? Tinubu will rather please the powers that be than do the right thing because he is a sycophantic hustler and an establishment person himself.

Does he have the moral authority to fight corruption when he himself had already been put under the searchlight of EFCC for corrupt enrichment several times? What happens if his past catch up with him and the FBI request for his extradition like one Mr. Abba Kyari of the police?

Will he be able to sever his ties with NURTW thugs and deal with them if required? Very unlikely. The foundation of his aura of invisibility in Lagos is the National Union of Road Transport Workers aka ‘Agberos’ who command an economy that generates more revenue than at least 32 Nigerian states. Many of the NURTW officials are rich and will do anything to ensure their freedoms are not disturbed. Tinubu is the assurance, the liaison and the bridge between them and the officialdom they require to continue making money illegally without hindrance. In return, they offer their manpower and the perceived ability to unleash violence to him on demand. This was what happened in Lagos during the 2019 elections when the NURTW thugs were unleashed in some areas where the election seemed not to be going according to plan. Will Tinubu be able to turn his back on his primary constituency, the NURTW, if he becomes a president? Your guess is as good as mine.

Will he remain healthy enough to perform? Not likely. He will most likely continue to travel abroad to ‘see his doctors because he has been using them for over forty years and they have his records’ according to the current excuse being offered on behalf of the current incumbent of the position Tinubu is craving.

Will he make any difference? Not likely because he won’t implement any policy that will change the status quo. Roads will remain terrible, electricity will still be epileptic, unemployment will still be high except for thugs and insecurity will worsen.

These are some of the reasons why Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu aka Amoda Sangodele of Iragbiji town cannot be our president.

With rejection of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I hereby take a stand against same of the same and sign up for a new Nigeria.

These old professional politicians will never retire from the scene because they are not decent and don’t know how to bow out when the ovation is loudest. The Nigerian people must give them their pension plan and ensure they stick to it.

Olaide Omideyi is a conflict management, post-conflict reintegration and economic development expert with over two decades experience with international organisations including the United Nations. He writes from Abeokuta, Ogun state and can be reached on +2347032356295, omideyi3259@gmail.

Yet the writer can't mention whom he feels is positioned, prepared and a better candidate, not someone still hibernating somewhere and not a member of any recognized political party,

ask them now they will be mentioning the names people still grateful to lead one international institutions and merely looking for money to pay their children school fees

pavoda:
Election season is fast approaching again and both contenders and the usual pretenders are dropping their hats into the ring for consideration.

One of the contenders who later became a pretender and is now trying to make himself a serious contender again is Bola Ahmed Tinubu. From holding birthday colloquium in the core northern city of Kano to donating generously to the Arewa House library and internally displaced persons in the North Central to burnish his national credentials, Tinubu has been running from pillar to post, trying to make himself look like a nationalistic figure as opposed to the Southwest political godfather that he really is.

The truth is, Tinubu cannot be a national politician because he is a regional leader in thought and action and can never be a national leader. He stays in Lagos and tries to be the big roster that doesn’t allow smaller ones crow for a reason.

I don’t want Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Nigeria’s next president. I don’t even want him dreaming about participating in politics or dreaming about leading anything or anyone again. He is part of the generation that does not know when enough is enough and will not bow out when the ovation is loudest but until when the audience starts to throw stones and empty bottles.

2023 is election year and the same old, faded and empty heads decorated with fancy caps are going round making useless ‘consultations’ to justify why they are contesting.

Why they cannot trust a younger, more vibrant and intelligent person without the garbage they are having will shock only a non-Nigerian.

Like the proverbial masquerade that will not think of returning to its sacred grove until it has been booed out of the market, our politicians do not stop thinking they are indispensable until they are humiliated. Tinubu has so many negatives going against him that his aides are trying mightily to paper over but that I will discuss here as some of the reasons why we must not be delivered of eight wasted years and enter another possible eight years of darkness and excuses. A Tinubu presidency will convey to all of us, a better understanding of what Senator Alli Ndume meant when he said he saw ‘light at the end of the toilet’.

I will start with his age. Despite being officially ’69’, everyone knows he is lying and that he is considerably older than that.

His dishonesty about his age was the reason why he has not been able to confirm the years he attended schools, his classmates and even the name of the schools he attended.

Tinubu is old and by now, I am sure we have had enough of old people who struggle to win elections only to start moving in and out of hospitals instead of working as expected. Let him go and take care of his failing health.

Let him enjoy his money for a change instead of working hard to amass wealth and not having the opportunity to spend it. He should visit a dentist while at it and have his teeth properly cleaned and washed. Let him buy a treadmill and exercise. He can also ‘work’ to make even more money to be kept in bullion vans, so that he can tell us with all the arrogance he can muster, that he can keep his money wherever he liked and move it in bullion vans any time.

A lawless person cannot be relied upon to keep the spirit of the law in a country with weak and compromised national institutions like Nigeria. There will be no check and balances to control his excesses in office.

His carefully crafted persona of a ‘manager of men and resources’ is fake the same way the persona of integrity was created for someone we all know and whose utterances and actions have been the opposite of integrity and accountability. He doesn’t have what it takes to manage a country like Nigeria. His gaffes are too many to be overlooked. From proposing the recruitment of fifty million young people to fight insecurity who would be fed ‘cassava, maize and agbado’ like area boys under Oshodi bridge to ‘converting empty land to grazing areas’ to placate northern power brokers, he has proven that he is nothing without the legion of aides he relies on to carry out everything. If he cannot lead policies, how can he ensure that right things are being done? He will become another ‘economic illiterate’ who will not allow his deputy outshine him.

His opaque history is filled with too many gaps. When did he attend those schools? Who are his classmates? Who were his teachers? How many of them can go on the record to say they attended the same school with him? If he cannot come clean on simple things like the name of his schools, he cannot be trusted to lead a whole country with openness and accountability.

Who is Bola Ahmed Tinubu? Nobody knows exactly who he is since his origins, real names and vital information that could allow people make informed decisions about him are not in the pubic domain or subject of controversies like his ties with Iragbiji in Osun state and his real parents. Late Lam Adesina said he assigned four teachers to go through the records of Government College Ibadan from inception to 2003 and they never saw any ‘Bola Ahmed Tinubu’ on the student lists.

Will he be fair enough to every region or will he be a slave to the ‘Unseen’ cabal manipulating things in this country? Tinubu will rather please the powers that be than do the right thing because he is a sycophantic hustler and an establishment person himself.

Does he have the moral authority to fight corruption when he himself had already been put under the searchlight of EFCC for corrupt enrichment several times? What happens if his past catch up with him and the FBI request for his extradition like one Mr. Abba Kyari of the police?

Will he be able to sever his ties with NURTW thugs and deal with them if required? Very unlikely. The foundation of his aura of invisibility in Lagos is the National Union of Road Transport Workers aka ‘Agberos’ who command an economy that generates more revenue than at least 32 Nigerian states. Many of the NURTW officials are rich and will do anything to ensure their freedoms are not disturbed. Tinubu is the assurance, the liaison and the bridge between them and the officialdom they require to continue making money illegally without hindrance. In return, they offer their manpower and the perceived ability to unleash violence to him on demand. This was what happened in Lagos during the 2019 elections when the NURTW thugs were unleashed in some areas where the election seemed not to be going according to plan. Will Tinubu be able to turn his back on his primary constituency, the NURTW, if he becomes a president? Your guess is as good as mine.

Will he remain healthy enough to perform? Not likely. He will most likely continue to travel abroad to ‘see his doctors because he has been using them for over forty years and they have his records’ according to the current excuse being offered on behalf of the current incumbent of the position Tinubu is craving.

Will he make any difference? Not likely because he won’t implement any policy that will change the status quo. Roads will remain terrible, electricity will still be epileptic, unemployment will still be high except for thugs and insecurity will worsen.

These are some of the reasons why Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu aka Amoda Sangodele of Iragbiji town cannot be our president.

With rejection of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I hereby take a stand against same of the same and sign up for a new Nigeria.

These old professional politicians will never retire from the scene because they are not decent and don’t know how to bow out when the ovation is loudest. The Nigerian people must give them their pension plan and ensure they stick to it.

Olaide Omideyi is a conflict management, post-conflict reintegration and economic development expert with over two decades experience with international organisations including the United Nations. He writes from Abeokuta, Ogun state and can be reached on +2347032356295, omideyi3259@gmail.

All your reasons are not cogent enough.. The number reason why he can never be Nigeria president is because he is corrupt. Forget other reasons.

Opinion piece my friend. Its goal is to steer conversation on the need for better candidates. Tinubu falls short of this. Certainly we are not cursed to the point that he becomes the only option you can think about.

Ovamboland:



Yet the writer can't mention whom he feels is positioned, prepared and a better candidate, not someone still hibernating somewhere and not a member of any recognized political party,

ask them now they will be mentioning the names people still grateful to lead one international institutions and merely looking for money to pay their children school fees

Ovamboland:



Yet the writer can't mention whom he feels is positioned, prepared and a better candidate, not someone still hibernating somewhere and not a member of any recognized political party,

ask them now they will be mentioning the names people still grateful to lead one international institutions and merely looking for money to pay their children school fees

Same trite line from defenders/promoters of thieves and crooks.

If he did, you'd tag him a hired writer.
His point is clear...it's an aberration having a Tinubu featuring on the ballot in 2023.

chenny360:
What makes you think he can't be a president... simply put you personally hate him

Anyone who genuinely loves Nigeria must "hate" the likes of Tinubu.
Doesn't the prospect of a criminal like that being in charge of our coffers frighten you?

When I started seeing i dont want from the account. I know its out of hate you wrote the article

You better go and get PVC coz INEC do not recognize post on Election Day.

uthlaw:
Osibanjo/Zulum are the next president and vice of Nigeria!

Zulum is still a governor and will run for second term so no and the SE won't accept Osinbajo

chenny360:
What makes you think he can't be a president... simply put you personally hate him

Oh my goodness!

Far from that. Unfortunately you have not read the article like you said. It still remains an opinion. The idea is to have other opinions and not to hate on anyone. We all want the best for Nigeria

Shetemi12:
When I started seeing i dont want from the account. I know its out of hate you wrote the article

So it's the writer that is fit to be president? won ka'we sugbon won ka opolo ori mo.

You think it's by calling yourself prof. or displaying PhD behind your name? anuofia

Abohboy:


Zulum is still a governor and will run for second term so no and the SE won't accept Osinbajo

who are the SE?

uthlaw:
who are the SE?

The Igbos even a lot of those in the SW will reject him since they've began waking up hopefully we'll see Moghalu as the next president of Nigeria and if not Moghalu then Peter Obi

Abohboy:


The Igbos even a lot of those in the SW will reject him since they've began waking up hopefully we'll see Moghalu as the next president of Nigeria and if not Moghalu then Peter Obi

those are your candidate in ur SE....you cannot tell us who to vote for!

uthlaw:
those are your candidate in ur SE....you cannot tell us who to vote for!

I'm not talking to you i'm talking to those with sense

Abohboy:


I'm not talking to you i'm talking to those with sense

quote me..... Osibanjo is the next president of Nigeria.... nothing you can do about it!