The South-West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA 2023) on Sunday said former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani overreached himself over his latest comment about the acceptability of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s presidential aspiration in the northern parts of the country.

Sani, while reacting to the endorsement of Tinubu’s candidacy by the Northern Alliance Committee last week had dared any northerner to paste Tinubu’s posters in the North and see the consequences.

He wrote on his Twitter page “Our Dear Jagaban, any northerner who comes to Lagos and declares his support for your presidential goal, tell him to paste your poster in the front of his house first. Yours Brotherly.”

However, speaking in a chat with DAILY INDEPENDENT, Hon. Bosun Oladele, National Secretary of SWAGA said Shehu Sani should work more on reality than playing politics on social media.


He said “If he is saying that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as a brand and as a politician is not acceptable to northerners, I think he missed the point. The question we should ask him is, is it the right time to paste posters? Has campaign for 2023 general election started? What we are doing at the moment is just sensitisation and advocacy”.

“ As a matter of fact, there is no candidate in the history of Nigerian politics that has gone this far. Where we have gone as SWAGA in South-West Nigeria, no other person has done it. In the entire country, there is no presidential aspirant that has gone round these places I have mentioned like SWAGA did”.

“So, with all due respect, Shehu Sani is jumping the gun. He should work more in reality than on social media. Social media has its place in politics but you will agree that as the saying goes, there are no polling booths on social media”.

“So, Shehu Sani should wait until it is time to paste posters. When it is time for doing that, he will see northerners pasting posters for Asiwaju and Shehu Sani will be shocked”.

“If he wants to find out how popular Asiwaju is, let him take a walk with in Kano or Kaduna. If he likes, let him bring out his proposed presidential candidate so we can see if he has a better pick”.

“But the kind of acceptance Asiwaju is enjoying even in northern Nigeria right now, I doubt if anybody will enjoy it, the latest being the endorsement by Northern Alliance. What we started by calling Asiwaju out to contest, he has answered the question. He said I won’t turn my people down but that consultation continues”.

“The clamour is high and he has seen that he has to yield to the voice of the people. He also said that President Buhari is still on seat and he wouldn’t want to distract him. Don’t forget that the house of Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria today, Asiwaju was the chief engineer in building it. He wouldn’t pull down the house or rock the boat. He is fully in support of President Buhari but he told us he won’t turn down our request. Shehu Sani in his efforts to stay on social media overreached himself” Oladele said.

The South-West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA 2023)

seunmsg:
Shehu Sani doesn’t deserve a response in my opinion. SWAGA should have ignored the attention seeking blogger.

Wiseandtrue:

Show us Tinubu's poster in front of your house!

seunmsg:


When it is time, I will paste it in front of my car.

So why are you attacking Shehu Sani

Wiseandtrue:

So why are you attacking Shehu Sani

seunmsg:


How did I attack the attention seeking blogger?

Wiseandtrue:

You are still attacking him!

Wiseandtrue:
Not only social media! Gone are the days election is won free and fairly in Nigeria, except you decides to play dirty or by the grace of the Almighty!

Tinubu had a taste of his own medicine in Edo!

Winning election or not will not stop the truth! Shehu Sani simply told you the truth!

Have Your supporters from the North started pasting your posters in front of their houses

That's the issue!

seunmsg:

Stop wasting my time.

Jeroh! You never paste Tinubu poster for your house still come here dey insult Shehu Sani wey dey right!

If to say na someone from outside the country read your ranting now them go think say na Nigerians no dey educated not knowing that it's only a section of the country that's Iike that due to quoter system!

PressMyButton:

Which Edo are you wailers always talking about?
Did you see Tinubu in Edo state caimpaigning?.. The only thing Tinubu did was appear on video to solicit support for Ize iyamu. He was not on ground in Edo. It was only Osho baba single handedly caimpaigning for pastor ize yamu in Edo. If Tinubu had landed in Edo, it would have been game over.

PressMyButton:

Which Edo are you wailers always talking about?
Did you see Tinubu in Edo state caimpaigning?.. The only thing Tinubu did was appear on video to solicit support for Ize iyamu. He was not on ground in Edo. It was only Osho baba single handedly caimpaigning for pastor ize yamu in Edo. If Tinubu had landed in Edo, it would have been game over.

so Tinubu must be present to win. interesting!

Where you dey You deserve an award for the clown of the year!

Ifesinachi22:
Tinubu is going nowhere.

North play Regional Politics not Party Politics. North won't leave a Muslim northern candidate of PDP and vote One Tinubu from God knows where.

Why did PDP win Kano in 2019 if North play party politics? Tinubu's major hope.

Just relax, wait and watch. Tinubu will fall like a pack of cards.

Mark my words..

Wiseandtrue:
so Tinubu must be present to win. interesting!

Where you dey You deserve an award for the clown of the year!

FarahAideed:
A Member of SWAGGA calculating 2023 Permutation