Fellow Nigerians, once again, this is not the best of times in our dear beloved country, Nigeria. After we had thought, gladly and gleefully, that no government could be worse than the recent Buhari administration, we are now confronted by yet another monstrosity. In less than two months in power, Tinubu’s government started collapsing whatever positive legacy Buhari left behind. Yet, we would have assumed and expected a President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be far better prepared and more visionary than Buhari and his lacklustre team was. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the case. While I’m not about to give an overview of Tinubu’s wobbly stewardship so far, and so soon, I’m constrained to put my thoughts and unequivocal opinion on the ongoing Tinubugate on paper. I’m doing this in my personal capacity as a Nigerian citizen and as a true and truthful friend of Tinubu. I believe only a true friend can look you straight, eyeballs to eyeballs, in the face, and tell one of the world’s most powerful men, the Gospel truth.

I have no doubts in my mind that the majority of Tinubu’s so-called friends and ubiquitous hangers-on are pretentious hypocrites. Tinubu has also not helped himself by encouraging both royals and puppets alike to worship at his feet and turning him into a demi-god. I’m convinced that they serve him no useful purpose. I will establish this fact in a minute.

The Tinubugate did not begin yesterday. It started after Tinubu returned from exile and metamorphosed into the Governor of Lagos State in 1999 and instantly became the biggest beneficiary of our epic battles in exile during the NADECO days. In all honesty, we were all happy that he was amply compensated for his salutary efforts.

But unknown to us, trouble was brewing. We didn’t know how or what led the legal luminary, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, to exhume all manner of “false declarations” contained in the forms submitted for Tinubu’s gubernatorial bid. On October 11, 1999, just months after Tinubu contested and won his election, Chief Fawehinmi’s powerful interview was published on the cover of Newswatch magazine, with the screaming headline: WHY TINUBU MUST GO – Gani Fawehinmi. The fearless Lawyer also granted another interview on the cover of The Source magazine, with an even more acerbic headline: “TINUBU IS A CRIMINAL – Gani, and a rider below: Deserves 10 years in jail! On top of the same magazine was published a worrisome story: The Tinubu Story: THE SOURCE UNDER THREAT. This was the first tell-tale sign of the new and toxic Lagos State to come, a Lagos of one man, one permanent ruler, reminiscent of the Sicilian Mafia, which we privately rechristened the “Cosa Nostra” of Nigeria.
Some members of our “exile confraternity” were naturally alarmed. But we were somehow timid and, thus, carelessly dismissed Gani’s case as, at the very best, alarmist and unnecessarily meddlesome. A few of us who were very close to Gani Fawehinmi knew it would be difficult and of no effect, to approach him and try to persuade him to drop the case. The other sad revelation was when some of Tinubu’s commissioners started fretting and sweating profusely. God is my witness. Many of them, out of panic, about the imminent impeachment of

TheBy Dele Momodu

Fellow Nigerians, once again, this is not the best of times in our dear beloved country, Nigeria. After we had thought, gladly and gleefully, that no government could be worse than the recent Buhari administration, we are now confronted by yet another monstrosity. In less than two months in power, Tinubu’s government started collapsing whatever positive legacy Buhari left behind. Yet, we would have assumed and expected a President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be far better prepared and more visionary than Buhari and his lacklustre team was. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the case. While I’m not about to give an overview of Tinubu’s wobbly stewardship so far, and so soon, I’m constrained to put my thoughts and unequivocal opinion on the ongoing Tinubugate on paper. I’m doing this in my personal capacity as a Nigerian citizen and as a true and truthful friend of Tinubu. I believe only a true friend can look you straight, eyeballs to eyeballs, in the face, and tell one of the world’s most powerful men, the Gospel truth.

I have no doubts in my mind that the majority of Tinubu’s so-called friends and ubiquitous hangers-on are pretentious hypocrites. Tinubu has also not helped himself by encouraging both royals and puppets alike to worship at his feet and turning him into a demi-god. I’m convinced that they serve him no useful purpose. I will establish this fact in a minute.

The Tinubugate did not begin yesterday. It started after Tinubu returned from exile and metamorphosed into the Governor of Lagos State in 1999 and instantly became the biggest beneficiary of our epic battles in exile during the NADECO days. In all honesty, we were all happy that he was amply compensated for his salutary efforts.

But unknown to us, trouble was brewing. We didn’t know how or what led the legal luminary, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, to exhume all manner of “false declarations” contained in the forms submitted for Tinubu’s gubernatorial bid. On October 11, 1999, just months after Tinubu contested and won his election, Chief Fawehinmi’s powerful interview was published on the cover of Newswatch magazine, with the screaming headline: WHY TINUBU MUST GO – Gani Fawehinmi. The fearless Lawyer also granted another interview on the cover of The Source magazine, with an even more acerbic headline: “TINUBU IS A CRIMINAL – Gani, and a rider below: Deserves 10 years in jail! On top of the same magazine was published a worrisome story: The Tinubu Story: THE SOURCE UNDER THREAT. This was the first tell-tale sign of the new and toxic Lagos State to come, a Lagos of one man, one permanent ruler, reminiscent of the Sicilian Mafia, which we privately rechristened the “Cosa Nostra” of Nigeria.
Some members of our “exile confraternity” were naturally alarmed. But we were somehow timid and, thus, carelessly dismissed Gani’s case as, at the very best, alarmist and unnecessarily meddlesome. A few of us who were very close to Gani Fawehinmi knew it would be difficult and of no effect, to approach him and try to persuade him to drop the case. The other sad revelation was when some of Tinubu’s commissioners started fretting and sweating profusely. God is my witness. Many of them, out of panic, about the imminent impeachment of Tinubu, were, stylishly, dissociating themselves from their boss. We heard all kinds of gibberish, from some of them, who are even in government today: “we brought our integrity into this government, we can’t allow anyone to tarnish it…”

Let us digress a little. One of them, extremely close to Tinubu, was the first to tell us about “the falsification of Tinubu’s age, the identity of his original parents from Iragbiji, his forged academic records”, and so on. This chain-smoker claimed absolute knowledge of Tinubu’s life. He told us in my Accra home that anyone who tells Tinubu the truth is instantly marked down as an enemy, so he has stopped telling him the truth. With this kind of mindset, you can imagine what quality of advice Tinubu gets regularly.

Then, out of the blues, my very daring and loyal friend, Tokunbo Afikuyomi, decided to bite the bullet on behalf of Tinubu. What he did was reminiscent of the “lamb of God who took away the sins of the earth…” He, like a kamikaze soldier, took absolute responsibility for the errors contained in Tinubu’s files. Miraculously, Tinubu was saved, and we were all relieved. Everyone is asking me how has Tinubu compensated Afikuyomi, and my answer is I don’t know.

It is noteworthy that Festus Keyamo had jumped on the bandwagon of those seeking to impeach Tinubu at that time. This is another story for another day. I cannot wait for my memoirs to be ready in order to put names and faces to the main dramatis personae.

Let’s now fast forward to the year 2002. There was a popular magazine known as The Week. It planned a cover story on Tinubu. Somehow, the story leaked out to then Governor of Lagos State. Tinubu immediately, and with automatic alacrity, reached out to the Publisher of the magazine, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and pleaded that the scandalous story should be dropped. Out of love and respect for his friend, Atiku reached out to The Week magazine Management and got the story to be stepped down. The Editors were miffed by this development, and in the aftermath, led to the resignation and exit of the Editor, Mr Simon Kolawole.

The meat of my epistle today is that there are many didactic lessons to pick from this Tinubugate. Tinubu eventually left office in 2007. But he never really left Lagos alone. He became Nigeria’s ultimate godfather, who determined, almost to the pin, who gets what. Many of his acolytes knew he was capable of turning them into emergency Billionaires and were ready to stand ramrod on his mandate. This, I believe, is the crux of the matter.

Now, why do I blame Tinubu and his die-hard fans? Two major reasons are carelessness (or is it negligence?) and recklessness. Why would a man who left office since 2007, 16 long years ago, fail to clean up the records that nearly got him impeached in the first instance? And given the fact that he couldn’t have personally handled those documents himself, why did the hordes of minions claiming to love him till eternity fail to deliver a world-class file for his documents?

The Laws of Nigeria never insisted that a Presidential candidate must attend a university. In the last 16 years, Tinubu should have ensured his personal documents were thoroughly checked to be squeaky clean before submitting them to INEC. If necessary, he could have easily gone back to school (Atiku still went to school recently to update and upgrade himself) and try to erase all the previous controversial details. As for his conflicting dates of birth, he should have settled for a preferred birthday date, like President Olusegun Obasanjo did. It can never be a crime that a child’s parent did not record or obtain his birth certificate. As for claiming to have worked for Deloitte and others, he should have limited himself to “I have worked for big multinationals globally and they truly enjoyed my services and valued my contributions” without mentioning specific companies and dates.

As for parentage, I would have told the world about my humble background and poor parentage. It is nothing to be ashamed of, and it is not a crime to be adopted and acquire the name of one’s foster-parents. Everyone knew how Chief MKO Abiola played the role of a father figure in my life, including travelling all the way to Ijebu-Igbo and Ijebu-Ode for my wedding in 1992, but that never stopped me from celebrating my poor parents. And if there were peculiar reasons for obliterating ones original family history, that can still be easily explained. A public figure cannot afford to keep too many secrets. For far too long, Tinubu has blatantly refused to open up his private life to the members of the public. The repercussions of this stifness have been hugely calamitous to him and his immediate family. With more openness, this could have been avoided.

Let me now go to the specific handling of the Chicago scandals. For me, Tinubu and his noisy supporters have made matters far worse than it should have been. Only his blind and shameless supporters will continue to argue over a saga that started over five decades ago. All of us who knew the truth and looked the other way brought this calamity upon our country. And it is grossly unfair.

Instead of Tinubu standing up as a man to offer sincere and unreserved apologies to Nigerians, his “brood of vipers” are busy insulting the long-suffering people of Nigeria, and studiously rubbing salt and pepper on our festering wounds. This is most unfair. This can only aggravate the anger of our citizens, especially the youths.

The first thing Tinubu should do is to climb down his high horse and experience reality for once. No man, no matter how powerful, can achieve everything by force, all the time. The popular story of EFUNSETAN ANIWURA, IYALODE IBADAN is very instructive. Power is transient.

I’m certain there is a hand of God in this latest eruption about Tinubu’s record, which has refused to go away. It is no longer about Atiku, Obi, Kwankwaso, Sowore and others. This is about Nigeria. Atiku has played his part honorably at home and abroad. What he achieved in Chicago was a monumental victory for our democracy. Because of Atiku, many Nigerians will have their pride restored. The burden has already been transferred to all of us. Whatever the outcome of the Supreme Court case, it is obvious to me that a new era beckons for us all except for those who choose to be voluntary slaves.

https://thebossnewspapers.com/2023/10/07/pendulum-the-truth-tinubu-must-be-told/


https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2023/10/07/the-truth-tinubu-must-be-told

This crime of forgery, impersonation and electoral robbery is being resisted by all Nigerians of good conscience, irrespective of tribal or religious affiliations.

Am glad.

Your people is coming for you dele just wait

Nigeria is at a crossroad. Who can save her?

madmohamed:
Your people is coming for you dele just wait

Hahahahaha zebele mazlems is coming for him

nlfpmod Seun fp

this is not another Reno ofockery jargons and horseshitt that will grace fp in seconds.

This is from a renowned publisher and journalist Dele Momodu with Thisday as source.

The actual meat of this Momodu's article is contained in the last three lines, and it is a clarion call to all young Nigerians who are still capable of proper reasoning.

Nigeria is dying, and with us in her belly. There's no amount of propaganda and lies that can wash that away anymore.

Fellow Nigerians, once again, this is not the best of times in our dear beloved country, Nigeria. After we had thought, gladly and gleefully, that no government could be worse than the recent Buhari administration, we are now confronted by yet another monstrosity.

In less than two months in power, Tinubu’s government started collapsing whatever positive legacy Buhari left behind. Yet, we would have assumed and expected a President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be far better prepared and more visionary than Buhari and his lacklustre team was. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the case.

What positivity of the highly undesired Buhari’s government is Dele Momodu talking about? Seems he have retrograde amnesia to recall that Tinubu informed the whole world that he made Buhari president hence deployed every criminal ways possible to attain power including the current raging CSU certificate scandal that is still unfolding.

After all, Bola Tinubu also promised to continue all the disastrous policies of the catastrophic Buhari government. So what new is anyone expecting?

God bless you oga Dele.

Tinubu the forger and a DRUG LORD is going or heads will roll.

BoldBrainz:
The actual meat of this Momodu's article is contained in the last three lines, and it is a clarion call to all young Nigerians who are still capable of proper reasoning. Nigeria is dying, and with us in her belly. There's no amount of propaganda and lies that can wash that away anymore.

Well said sir. I kept on saying it too. This scandal will either make or Mar Nigeria permently but that depend on the young people of this generation Nigeria.

Tinubu is a man of mystery...

Dele Momudu too wanted to be President. Some people no know their levels.

Et tu Dele Momodu

Two months you say? Did you ask yourself if Atiku a serial loser and peter obi allow the man to breathe.

In short; park and go!

Another part of Tinubu that has been revealed is his divide and rule strategy using Igbos as scapegoat for all his ills . He somehow feels pitching other Nigerians against Igbos will make them sweep everything under the carpet. It might work for some people but I'm glad there are still humans left who cannot be deceived

If since 2007 he could not or can not go back to school to clean all his fraudulent irregulars credentials, it only expose him as a arrogant burnt stone 🪨 hearted criminal, Is a fellow that believe that power, money, being a bully and thuggish can get him anything, and all these reflect in his way of life and determine the kind of people he surrounded himself with. For example look at person like OLUOMO, and how he is trying to forcefully takeover the headquarter NURTW in Abuja, why won't he do that when he as succeded that move already in Lagos with backing of supposed authority administering Lagos, and also look at issue of wanting to installing himself as ỌBA OF OSHODI and when he never comes from any known royal family, and all this nonsense are in a state and a country that suppose to be govern by rules, laws and regulations, if you you can think deeply about all this nonsense happenings, it will gives you a clear picture of TINUBU personality, you can't have a person of his types of characters in a nation and expect the country not to flourish in lawlessness.

May the good Lord bless you Oga Dele

Forging certs is their own thing😏

This one is make e no be like say I no talk abi put mouth after collecting hundred of millions as director of communication of Atiku campaign.
What these guys refused to know is that election has already been won and lost it’s better they just go and prepare for 2027.

Abagworo:
Another part of Tinubu that has been revealed is his divide and rule strategy using Igbos as scapegoat for all his ills . He somehow feels pitching other Nigerians against Igbos will make them sweep everything under the carpet. It might work for some people but I'm glad there are still humans left who cannot be deceived

Who stole your phone?

Dele Momodu is a l*natic!

He is still reeling from Atiku's loss. He mis-gambled for real

I believe, that the problem was the fact

that, Tinubu failed to do proper change

of name before adopting Tinubu as surname.
This may be the reason why it seems he didn't have a childhood history.

Maybe it was part of the condition given to him,by his foster parents to erase
everything that will connect him to his real family.

He should be proud of his humble, yet honest beginnings.

Uncle dele it is too late. Atiku will never come ?

gssdobi:
I believe, that the problem was the fact

that, Tinubu failed to do proper change

of name before adopting Tinubu as surname.
This may be the reason why it seems he didn't have a childhood history.

Maybe it was part of the condition given to him,by his foster parents to erase
everything that will connect him to his real family.

He should be proud of his humble, yet honest beginnings.

Please all these things should shut up, stop making noise & chasing shadows, Mumus.

Britishpea:
Uncle dele it is too late. Atiku will never come ?

The foolish publisher gambled wrong, politics is not for the fat oaf.

Racoon:
Well said sir. I kept on saying it too. This scandal will either make or Mar Nigeria permently but that depend on the young people of this generation Nigeria.

Old Shameless Wailer.

Uncle dele you’re wasting your time and it’s time you lots move on. Thank God you admitted that the Tinubu generation may have issues of birth records documentation hence discrepancies around age which you have said is not limited to Tinubu alone so why all the fuss?

If you guys want anything specific from Tinubu then go and meet him and tell him your personal desires but to continue to slander a man and using the weakness of his humble beginnings to malign him is grave justice against humanity. You guys should be more mature and deal with your personal issues of bitterness. Tinubu can’t solve that for you guys.

favor914:
The foolish publisher gambled wrong, politics is not for the fat oaf.

We said it,his BROOD OF VIPERS WILL COME FOR YOU.

gssdobi:
I believe, that the problem was the fact

that, Tinubu failed to do proper change

of name before adopting Tinubu as surname.
This may be the reason why it seems he didn't have a childhood history.

Maybe it was part of the condition given to him,by his foster parents to erase
everything that will connect him to his real family.

He should be proud of his humble, yet honest beginnings.

Can you imagine your biological mother died but because of the secrets your keeping you stayed back in lagis and didn't attend tge burial in iragbiji