Tinubu's running mate should be Buhari.

Omicron007:
It is no longer news that frontline Lagos politician Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja recently where he informed him of his decision to contest the apex political seat in the country in 2023.

Since that visit, social media pages have been awash with Tinubu's life long ambition of being the president of this country.
A stroll on Nairaland's politics section would confirm that the polity is gradually being heated up concerning the race for who would succeed Buhari come 2023.

Tinubu's candidacy is a trending topic on this forum and a lot of political enthusiasts are airing their voice by drumming support for him or standing against him.

However, let us look at a certain scenario.
Who do you think would be Tinubu's running mate?
This is a very dicy situation concerning the fact that Tinubu is a Southern Muslim and it will not be acceptable by the general population if he fields a Northern Muslim as his running mate.

Who do you think is the best choice for Vice-President?

Boss Mustapha/Yakubu Dogara
Be informed!

OBASANJO OR GUMI

urbobo20:
How can someone who is not going to win primary have running mate

Are you sure ? You can't be so sure!

Something of such is quite possible in Nigeria my country...

There is a difference between not wanting Tinubu to become a candidate,which many people don't because of his corrupt background and his age and him winning the APC primaries,which is more than likely.
With the delegate method being the likely means of primaries election,Tinubu has got 2 of the highest delegate states sown up:Lagos where he is going to annoint all the voting delegates and Kano where ghanduje seems likely to do the same for him.
Any candidate that gathers up all the delegates from these 2 states is more than likely to emerge APC candidate,no matter what happens with the other votes.
The only way, painful as it sounds,I see Tinubu not emerging APC candidate is if he doesn't contest at all.
Buhari is now a lame duck buffoon,that was even shut down and beaten when he still had influence and power when he rooted for ambode to re-emerge for a second time,talkless now he is now in his lame duck year when he can't influence anyone.

Lol am not even hearing fashola voice that Dem give 3 ministries sometimes ago.

Maybe it's Tinubu and Fashola for 2023

Tinubu is going nowhere.

Omicron007:



Both president and VP should come from the south?

He is a clown, just like most tinubus supporters...

Me

Peter Obi

Ahmed Lawan or Fashola

Sebastine1994:
Why do you think tinubu has been running to northern Nigeria.

His vice is ganduje.
Governor of the most populous state in northern Nigeria.

Let us bet

Abubaushe:





Boss Mustapha/Yakubu Dogara
Be informed!

You don't understand the North and religion. This ticket is automatic loosing ticket in the North. North cannot concede VP slot to a Non Core muslim Hausa-Fulani Northerner.
Tinubu dare not think of running a Muslim-Muslim ticket in a heavily divided nation like Nigeria.
I still think the North is planning to set up Tinubu for defeat. Give him ticket in APC, give Atiku ticket in PDP. Southerners are all game but they know it not.

BORNO GOVERNOR yes yes yes my prediction

Governor Nasir El-Rufai is the best choice for Tinubu

urbobo20:
How can someone who is not going to win primary have running mate

shigishege:
Honestly i think for a fair share Tinubu should take someone from ibo land. But the problem with them will now be that all of them will want to be that vice president at the same time, none will be ready to allow the other one go first for just a single slot oo. That's the problem with them, but the VP should be given to them while national chairmanship should go to the north.

You don't know anything about Nigerian politics. Two southerners on the same ticket while the north sits idly by?

tit:
Yusuff Buhari is a goal!!!

Na so Naija turn joke.

His Home is his running mate.

Omicron007:
It is no longer news that frontline Lagos politician Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja recently where he informed him of his decision to contest the apex political seat in the country in 2023.

Since that visit, social media pages have been awash with Tinubu's life long ambition of being the president of this country.
A stroll on Nairaland's politics section would confirm that the polity is gradually being heated up concerning the race for who would succeed Buhari come 2023.

Tinubu's candidacy is a trending topic on this forum and a lot of political enthusiasts are airing their voice by drumming support for him or standing against him.

However, let us look at a certain scenario.
Who do you think would be Tinubu's running mate?
This is a very dicy situation concerning the fact that Tinubu is a Southern Muslim and it will not be acceptable by the general population if he fields a Northern Muslim as his running mate.

Who do you think is the best choice for Vice-President?

His wife or son

Ndi ara

[quote author=urbobo20 post=109434443]How can someone who is not going to win primary have running mate[ Atiku did not have running mate when he lost gallantly in 2019? So hatred has blocked your reasoning power to this level. Tueh.]

Tinubu can't be Nigeria's president.... Never ever.

AsampeteNwaanyi:
lol make he win primaries first

seems Tinubu urchins paid for front page visibility

mr osewa cashing out of the bullion van with reckless abandon

I guess u re from inferior republic?

Suggesting a Tinubu is an insult on the sensibility of all intelligent Nigerians.
To BMCs, every evil is welcomed.

Omicron007:
It is no longer news that frontline Lagos politician Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja recently where he informed him of his decision to contest the apex political seat in the country in 2023.

Since that visit, social media pages have been awash with Tinubu's life long ambition of being the president of this country.
A stroll on Nairaland's politics section would confirm that the polity is gradually being heated up concerning the race for who would succeed Buhari come 2023.

Tinubu's candidacy is a trending topic on this forum and a lot of political enthusiasts are airing their voice by drumming support for him or standing against him.

However, let us look at a certain scenario.
Who do you think would be Tinubu's running mate?
This is a very dicy situation concerning the fact that Tinubu is a Southern Muslim and it will not be acceptable by the general population if he fields a Northern Muslim as his running mate.

Who do you think is the best choice for Vice-President?

The IPOB leader Kanu

Why Bola Tinubu lost the 2023 presidential election

JANUARY 17, 2022

In his article, “Osinbajo’s Road to Abuja: The Untold Story,” Olawale Olaleye told how Osinbajo ‘defeated’ Bola Tinubu to become Muhammadu Buhari’s vice-presidential candidate.

According to the story, early in 2015, as soon as Buhari became the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu set up a committee to come up with a way to justify to the nation his inevitable choice as Buhari’s running mate. That was because the Buhari-Tinubu ticket would have imposed Muslim-Muslim candidates on Nigeria. One of the committee members was Yemi Osinbajo, the current Vice President of Nigeria. As the story went, Osinbajo expressed to the committee members that it would be difficult for him to go back to his constituency and explain the potential Muslim-Muslim ticket. Osinbajo’s discontent got to Bola Tinubu, and he held it as a grudge against his former Attorney-General when he was the governor of Lagos State.

While this was going on, Muhammadu Buhari’s committee set up to shortlist his possible Vice Presidential candidates arrived at three names. One of the names was Yemi Osinbajo. When Buhari took the three names to Bola Tinubu to give him the honor of picking one in recognition of his contribution to Buhari’s campaign, Tinubu flared up when he did not see his name on the list. In the intriguing negotiations and permutations that followed, despite Bola Tinubu’s initial rejection, Osinbajo ended up as the Vice Presidential candidate of Buhari instead of Tinubu.

That was how Tinubu lost out in his quest to be Buhari’s running mate in 2015. Of course, if Bola Tinubu had been Vice President for the last six years, a different conversation would be going on in Nigeria today.

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Now, here is how Tinubu will lose out in his quest to become the President of Nigeria in 2023.

Undoubtedly, amongst those who have declared their interest in running for president in the 2023 election, Bola Tinubu is the most formidable. It was not a secret that he had nursed the ambition of being president since he left the governorship of Lagos State in 2007. He has invested a lot of political capital in building a humongous political structure across Nigeria. As the political season opens up, he hopes to deploy all his resources to attain his ultimate political goal.

The troubles with Bola Tinubu’s candidacy are enormous. Some are within his control, while others are not. No candidate for the presidency of Nigeria has ever come into the campaign with much political baggage as Tinubu, not even Muhammadu Buhari.

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We can find in three folds everything wrong with Muhammadu Buhari in Bola Tinubu. In 2015, there was the myth that Buhari’s abbreviated performance in 1984 as the military Head of State was what Nigeria needed. We cannot say the same about Tinubu. Nobody can say that Tinubu’s abysmal performance as governor in Lagos State from 1999 – 2007 displayed any spark of brilliance that can make a dent in Nigeria’s precarious situation today. In 2015, some thought Buhari was disciplined. In 2022, everyone knows that Tinubu is not disciplined. In 2015, some saw Buhari as incorruptible. In 2022, everyone knows Tinubu as the epitome of bullion-van-level corruption in Nigeria. In 2015, some looked at Buhari as healthy and agile. In 2022, everyone knows Tinubu is ill and sluggish. In 2015, some perceived Buhari as someone that commanded respect within military circles. In 2022, everyone knows that the only military wings that respect Tinubu are the touts, alayes and the area boys.

Unlike Buhari, who had several opportunities to try, Tinubu has just one chance – 2023. It is a do-or-die situation for him. He has no second chance. If he doesn’t win, he goes home without fulfilling his dream. That puts tremendous pressure on the man.

So, we expect a vigorous campaign from Bola Tinubu. And as the first week of his one-shot campaign shows, it won’t be an easy ride for the self-described “kingmaker” who wants to be a king.

The self-inflicted personal baggage of Tinubu is well known to all. His inability to present a straight biography is one of them. Nothing about him is straightforward – his age, his name, his certificates, his schools (primary, secondary, university), his parents, his source of wealth, the state of his health, his ever-changing ideology, etc. Even his classmates are unknown. At least, Buhari has been taking pictures with his secondary school classmates as proof that he went to secondary school.

Though possession of a crooked biography has never stopped anyone from being the president of Nigeria, the case of Tinubu is so egregious. They are coming at a point when Nigerians are less tolerant of such character flaws. It does not help that more and more Nigerians are beginning to see the correlation between such flaws and the performance of the bearer, as Muhammadu Buhari exemplified. It does not help Tinubu that Nigerians are coming into a new awareness of how personal things affect professional things and how individual faults impact the collective interest of we, the people.

Of course, in Nigeria’s crooked democracy, the people have little say on who will ultimately become their president. The power brokers are the most significant determinants of who will emerge as president.

Here is what is working for Bola Tinubu.

If APC fields Tinubu as its presidential candidate, APC is finished. If APC does not field Tinubu as its presidential candidate, APC is finished. As a result of that reality, APC is trying, but it has not found a way to extricate itself from that quagmire.

In 2015, when Nigeria was still at its innocent stage, Buhari was forced to pick a pastor as his running mate to deflect the perception of him as an Islamist. In almost seven years in office, Buhari’s obscene mismanagement of Nigeria’s diversity raises the stake so high for Bola Tinubu. The heightened ethno-religious tension in Nigeria complicates Tinubu’s life on so many levels.

If Tinubu were to become the presidential candidate of the APC, his first challenge is finding a Vice Presidential candidate that will be satisfactory to Northern leaders. As we have seen in the past, a Northern Christian is not satisfactory to the North as a vice presidential candidate when the presidential candidate is a Southern. It doesn’t matter if the Southern is a Muslim because, in the North, a Southern Muslim is not seen as authentic as a Northern Muslim. The North would rather have a Southern Christian president with a Muslim vice president than a Southern Muslim president with a Northern Christian vice president.

While a Muslim-Muslim ticket could win the presidency in 1993, it was unacceptable in 2015. And that was why Bola Tinubu was not named the Vice President to Buhari then. Buhari’s performance makes it ten times more difficult to sell a Muslim-Muslim ticket to Nigerians in 2023. Of course, Bola Tinubu thinks he can sell it, another indication that he lives in a world of those who have taken mkpurummiri. Tinubu thinks his Southwest base, known to care less about whether their leader is Muslim or Christian, will abide by him. This is so 1993.

But the truth is that the power brokers in the North are not going to take that chance. They instead back another candidate that will not bring about so many complications to their interest. And that is why they are leaving the room for a Northern candidate to be the presidential candidate of the PDP, just in case they need to default to supporting the party in 2023.

Another thing not working for Bola Tinubu is that in northern power circles, nobody trusts him. He is not an Obasanjo. In the past, he had expressed his distaste for one-Nigeria. Coming out of NADECO, he once flirted with the campaign for a radical restructuring of Nigeria in ways the North detests. The bottom line is that Tinubu does not fit into the character that either the North or the South will want for president. No wonder the Southwest-based cultural group, Afenifere quickly disassociated themselves from his campaign for president.

When it is all said and done, history will record that Bola Tinubu used the first part of his life to destroy the last. He was not the first to do so. And he will not be the last. That realization should console him. And irrespective of who becomes the president of Nigeria in 2023, Nigeria would be better off than the country would have been if it were to be Bola Tinubu.

TheCable

Okonkwo teaches Post-Colonial African History at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is also the host of Dr. Damages Show. His books include “This American Life Sef”, “Children of a Retired God” among others.

urbobo20:
How can someone who is not going to win primary have running mate

....you guys are still begging him to drop his bid.

Nnamdi Kanu

urbobo20:
How can someone who is not going to win primary have running mate

you are wicked

I think Dave Umahi should be the vice president.

And allow a Hausa man be the Senate president.

If Ibo man be the Senate president he might frustrate the executive.

But a vice position could incapacitate them.

Tinubu will never be our President in this nation even for 1 min so I don't need to suggest what is not real