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raumdeuter:
POL 501 Tinubu masterclass (Sparsky vs Fisher 1972)
To followers of Chess, The game between Sparsky and Fisher in 1972 was dubbed the game of the century

I will use some Chess analogies to describe this historic victory of Asiwaju Tinubu

The Tinubu masterclass


Opening move decided to go a conservative Sicilian opening

In 1999 he won Lagos State governor

In 2003 when OBJ deceived all SW governors and the AD to not float their candidate that they should support him and in turn he will ensure they retain their seat, Tinubu disagreed with AD leaders on that arrangement. tsunami swept all AD governors only Tinubu survived

Queens gambit declined

He left AD, formed his own party AC and he was the only governor
By 2007 to grow the party he reached out to Oshiomole offered him the AC ticket in Edo vs Prof Osunbor. Oshiomole lost
Atiku and OBJ got into a fight a major fight, Atiku was in charge of PDM he was the strongest Northern politician and as the heir to Yar Adua, OBJ used YarAdua younger brother Umaru to break Atikus hold on PDM
Tinubu saw an opportunity to woo a powerful politician and get on his good side, he gave Atiku a platform to contest the 2007 election obviously Atiku had no path to win. He made Ben Obi Atikus vice. They lost but Tinubus profile started rising
Short side castling

He sponsored candidates in AC all over Nigeria. He brought many politicians treated badly and denied a ticket into his fold e.g Ngige Akume
He brought Fashola a technocrat as governor but didn't hand over the political keys to him
Fasholas performance became the standard for ACN to campaign and win many hearts across the nation
Knight advance

Below is the critical part of the game which would have effect in the future

The criminal elections of 2007 conducted by Obasanjo which was reputed to be the worst election in Nigerian history handed Tinubu a huge opportunity
He found an ally in Justice Salami of the appeal court who was instrumental in restoring the Oshiomole and Fayemi and Aregbesola into power
AC grew into 4 states.
Open file Bishop

Mimiko of Labour Party who was denied the ticket was also in tribunal vs Agagu. Tinubu approached him to provide logistic support with belief that Mimiko will decamp into ACN. Mimiko won but declined to join ACN

By 2011 Tinubu spread beyond the SW approached strong politicians who were denied a ticket or chased out of strong parties but knew he couldn't take on the FG alone at this time. He was the 3rd force in 2011

Mid game starts with slight positional disadvantage

Buhari controlled all Northern states with his new CPC, Jonathan and PDP controlled most SE NC and SS states
CPC and PDP were stalemate here comes tie breaker Tinubu.
Buhari in his idealistic thinking felt he could do by picking Bakare a Pastor with zero structures. He didn't agree to Tinubus terms.
GEJ saw the opportunity approached Tinubu who tactically floated a dummy Ribadu and Fola Adeola(2 moslems who had zero political structures and were barely politicians) he knew weren't going anywhere. Tinubu stepped down all ACN machinery in the SW and allowed the PDP a free ride.
Now he has become a major power broker who tactically made Jonathan president without appearing to.
Knight fork

After winning in 2011, Jonathan started some aggressive moves to break Tinubu so he won't have to beg everytime. One of such moves was to make a SW Mulikat Adeola Speaker, Jonathan thinking was to raise a powerful SW politician that will be an alternative to Tinubu.
Tinubu knew this was an act of aggression on their gentleman handshake and he mobilized the ACN reps to reject Mulikat and support Tambuwal,
Counterplay sacrificed pawn to gain positional advantage

Buhari lost 2011 again and started crying on TV and was hopeless. As a man of strategy Tinubu knew Buhari was at his low and vulnerable point, he approached Buhari this time Bubu was more than willing
Tinubu started the cleanup of Buhari's image from a clueless out of touch military religious extremist guy to this misunderstood charming, introvert, gap toothed, strong man that Nigeria needed at this critical time to get rid of corruption and PDP indiscipline
This chess player goes into deep analysis and thinking

Thus APC was birthed with the plan to use Buhari's popularity with Tinubu's money and skilled politicking to push Buhari into power but this time Tinubu was to pick Buhari's vice.
APC also won over Atiku after he lost out in PDP and breakaway PDP governors. Atiku came into the convention ground hoping to buy the ticket as usual
Buhari has never done any real competitive primary in a party everyone didn't worship him. Primary ground, Buhari was stunned about how Atiku was about to steal the ticket right there with money . Until Tinubu matched Atiku dollar for dollar and Buhari won the ticket
Middle game management used knight to fend off offensive

This is where the game starts getting interesting..
Now the deal was for Tinubu ACN to provide the Vice.
Tinubu knew he was interested in succeeding Buhari. And giving a strong vice would build up the Vice politically over 8yrs and might build enough goodwill to succeed Buhari
This was Tinubu's biggest masterstroke. He gave Buhari an Osinbajo who was smart but has the political clout of a 13yr old girl. Osinbajo was a very safe choice, he was not popular nor charismatic enough to gather the clout to state Jagaban in the face
There were other options like Fashola and Fayemi but they were risky and could get ambitious and endear themselves to people
Buhari asked Tinubu for 3 choices, Tinubu returned with one choice an unknown Yemi Osinbajo who will complete 8yrs and have less to nothing in political power to challenge for the seat
Queen advance

Buhari won election and Tinubu is in a good position Nationally acknowledged as the brain behind the success, thus issues started cropping up, fissures grew in the hurriedly assembled APC. Saraki wanted more than he was offered and broke the party, Buharis packaging has now begun to fall off, the makeup was beginning to melt and the man behind the mascara was beginning to show and its not pretty, Tinubu was schemed out by Buharis CPC friends including Abba Kyari and ElRufai, Things were not going to plan
Should he pull out of the APC, blurt out or maintain status quo and reach out to enemies
The Queen beat a tactical retreat

Throughout Buharis regime, many party internal issues came up, Buhari stayed aloof, Osinbajo stayed on the fence but Tinubu dove head on into the murky waters, aggressively supporting his men, He got bruised in many places like Ekiti, Ondo, Edo, Kano, Oyo but he stuck to his men and was even rumored to be schemed out
Officer exchange, Sac Bishop for Knight

Comes 2022, Tinubu has broken into the ranks of governors in his party and showing loyalty to them in times of trials won him a lot of die hard loyalists like Oshiomole and Ganduje who will lay their lives for him
By now Tinubu had taken control of all the APC structures and wanted the party to go for a direct primary, Some felt there was no way they could match the network of Tinubu in a direct primary and pushed for indirect where only chosen delegates voted
Tinubu called upon his network of Governors and allies when Buhari wanted to anoint Lawan, they stood up and insisted it goes to the South. He won the primary
Rook to center, End game starts with significant positional advantage

Opposition started panicking, the were split into multiple factions Obi, Kwankwanso G5 and Atiku. Tinubu though weakened by many of the policies under Buhari including Cash swap, fuel scarcity, general insecurity, failing health, etc. His generals stood behind him like Allied forces stood behind General Eisenhower in the battle of Normandy in the final offensive against Nazi Germany. When the boats were rocking his Northern governors came out forcefully, He then found an invaluable ally in the G5 and Wike who was aggrieved from PDP and swore to neutralize Atiku everywhere. Late hour Wike declared for Tinubu, neutralizing an important state for Obi and Atiku
Rook moves to the 7th rank

Elections are conducted Tinubu leading and appears ready to make his checkmate move on May 29 when he is expected to be sworn in as Commander in Chief


You can see it was a gradual ascension filled with scheming which he lost some but won many
This man called Jagaban who many people do not like but smart people deeply respect
He understands politics. He is smart enough not to fight anyone dirty thus always leaving the room for reconciliation open, the power of compromise give & take, persuasion and when to use the power of money

Most times those who fight Tinubu can only do it on the pages of paper By the time you meet him, His humor, his slow thick voice, his offer he will give you, You most likely will leave him calm and ready to compromise

All of the above nonsense to rationalise thuggery and political gerrymandering mtchew...

Nigerians do like to defend the indefensible...

The words of a political thief.. mtchew

muykem:
Good. Continue to be far from joy.

I have already left oga, safe in the west. It is you who will suffer..

Nigeria is broken and is a corrupt contraption that masquerades as a democratic nation..

Led by greedy old men devoid of ideas yet unwilling to relinquish power..

The end..

Beep Nigeria

Sacrednes:
God luck came in, we miss yarAdua

Buhari came in we miss God luck

Tinubu [Bat] coming in,if we miss buhari then we are finish😥

No we voted for Obi, the old men shifted the goal posts and gave us a BAT (Tinubu)

Beep Nigeria

[quote author=tamdun post=121370431][/quote]I am Yoruba and I get no joy out of Tinubu's stolen victory

Godwin4444:
Like seriously there’s one thing very annoying about obi supporters n if they aren’t careful it might put some of them in trouble

It’s like they have all been programmed to believe tinubu is coming to kill them, that’s what u hear from them in different places they talk.

Two annoying scenarios have happened here today

The first one
Imagine we all went to eat at a restaurant, 3 men were talking about election on a table n from their conversation u know they are friends n they had election bet, 2 was supporting tinubu n one peter obi, they we’re having their discussion without insulting anyone.

One girl on another table that doesn’t know them n they don’t know him just said “na u go suffer am”……..na so one man from d 3 guys just stood up n told the girl

I have been a millionaire in my 20’s n now I am approaching 50, I am d ceo of this n that n I have this n this n I have never been a politician so what’s your problem. The man was so annoyed that it took d intervention of people there to calm him down, the lady couldn’t even wait to finish her food before she left………even d man supporting Peter obi among d 3 friends was angry but he just had to caution himself


Same thing happened here not quite long, d same line of “na u go suffer am” is the same thing this girl dropped when she’s doesn’t even know d people discussing

It’s highly annoying

Imagine another one saying here that Igbo man will go back to his business or work after election, so na other tribes no get work or business?

These people are highly annoying

It’s like they are intentionally looking for ways to get people angry

Oh please stop..

No one bar a myopic clown would support anyone who clearly won by virtue of vote rigging..

You are a typical Nigerian in that you merely follow someone as long as they are powerful. Whether they are of good character or attained power by merit is irrelevant to a person like you.

Nigeria will suffer because of the events of the last few days and you are here critiquing those condemn fraud and want Nigeria to be better.

In no short time, Tinubu has revealed yet again why he isn't fit to lead with name calling. The leader of the most populus black nation on earth behaving in such a manner..

Smh Nigeria what have you done..?

Xbobtage:
To those tinubu supporters celebrating his victory, and mocking Obidients Let me help you understand what you are celebrating.

You are celebrating Business as Usual. The tinubu that Governed Lagos and the one who contested for president are two different people, The New Tinubu is not strong enough to oversee the job of the president, he will have proxys running the country. So all the known Big thieves who are only there to continue looting nigeria will be announced as cabinet members, and top political posts. Ganduje, Orji Kalu, El rufai, Akpabio, Yahaya Bello etc.

= 2,000 naira per dollar loading
= Fuel Subsidy will be cancelled, but the criminality surrounding the petroleum sector will remain. Fuel will become 700 naira per liter.
- ASUU strikes and degradation of the Nigerian Educational system continue, Bachelors Degree 6 to 7 years to complete.
= Armed Agitations , Kidnapping, will continue, as the corruption bedeviling the Nigerian Armed forces makes it unable to fight at all these fronts.
= Mass emigration of Skilled Proffessionals, We already saw the Beginning, Doctors, Engineers have NO reason to work here based on the over inflation and devaluation of the nigerian naira.
= Price of Bread 3,000 naira, Bag of Rice 150K, Price of local flight 300k etc.
= A very dangerous tribal and religious divide is now the new normal.

Nigeria has missed an opportunity to prevent what was coming. You were warned

You are mocking Igbo and people from the SS, mocking Nigerians who were fighting for a better future just so you can come online and brag about your tribe. Were Igbo people the only ones exchanging dollar for 750naira? Good Luck to the Nigeria you voted for.

Regardless I continue to urge Obidients to not fall for Violence and destruction of Public Property as a way to Err anger, this will only come back to haunt the already suffering masses. The Election was Obviously massively rigged, but let Obi fight through courts.

I truly do feel sorry for those who have nothing, got woke and walked outside the tribal lines to Identify with candidates that would truly make this country better. May God see you all through these difficult times and those coming ahead.

To those quoting me, I ve been a Billionaire in Naira Since Jonathan was President. I was going to share over 20million naira to Nairalanders if Obi had won, check my previous messages. I started slowing moving out of Nigeria in the Early 2000s and when I saw how quickly the naira devalued during covid I sold over 80% of all my assets in the country keeping only real estates of sentimental value. I am not religious neither have I made money through Political Theft unlike the Tinubu that you worship. Even though I am giving a lot to family and friends back home in Nigeria, I am employing foreigners and creating wealth in my new environment, Big loss to Nigeria, not what my father would have thought when he was fighting to put me through school as a child. I would love to come back and be as productive as I am abroad in Nigeria but the outlook of the country looks completely hopeless, why should anyone who has all these amazing international options choose to bother themself with the trouble of dealing with Nigeria? Obviously all that is left is an emotional attachment when we see what the country has become. All I have to do is stop reading Nairaland/Nigerian News and all my nigerian problems disappears. Again I really feel sorry for the Nigerian Masses, including those who let tribal and religious sentiments to vote Business as usual.

Well said you have spoken for many Nigerians who have given up on this nations to accept exile elsewhere.

Under Tinubu, Nigeria simply will not move forward. Nigeria had an opportunity for new blood and ideas, but through rigging that possibility was denied.

A very sad day indeed and some of the folks celebrating don't realise they will suffer as a result of this.

Nigeria is finished.. I have joined the ranks of those who no longer care about her fate.

Tribal:
Way to go! We did it! Congratulations to all Tribes in Nigeria that Genuinely Love Nigeria! And that truly Love and Respect all other Nigerian Tribes!

Guy below don't be so childish, be matured pls. Tinubu is not a religious bigot, he chose Shetima because he knows that is the only way he would win, since Igbos refused to Re-Pay him with the Unprecedented Kindness that he showered on them as Southern brothers while he was Governor: he started allowing them to contest Political Positions and to hold few State Offices, even despite Paying their Children's School Fees including WAEC Fees throughout Lagos for his 8 Years, they still Rewarded him with Super-abundant Cancerous Hatred.

Now that he is President, his Focus is to make our Country great and respected among others in the World. We now have a Nation to make Great. No more Tribalism or Religious bigotry.

There is nothing to celebrate in a clearly rigged election

Tinubu has no mandate to rule and his appointment doesn't reflect the will of all Nigerians.

A very sad day for Nigerians and Africa as well

Then call another election you thief

Stolen election

olgaa14:
We expect nothing less than victory for LP,abeg we have suffered enough in this country

It's true, we have suffered too much... sha

Let's hope he can make a better Nigeria for all..

FreeStuffsNG:
A renowned Professor of Economics and former CBN Governor who is occupying the office once occupied by Mr Obi for 8 years of mediocre leadership in Anambra under him, Economist Soludo, has passed a verdict on Mr Obi; he regards Mr Obi as a colossal failure in 8 years reign of Mr Obi as Anambra state Governor.

None of the current or past Governors of Anambra endorsed him and none of them can vouch for him.

Any Economist hyping Mr Obi is like the discredited ANAP 'poll' and should not be taken with seriousness.

The current Governor of Anambra state, Prof Soludo, a Professor of Economics and former Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) Governor, already gave the scorecard of Mr Obi. Soludo said publicly that Anambra state investment that Mr Obi made in the capital market is today worth next to nothing.
The renowned Economist, Prof Soludo stated that Anambra state under Mr Obi took the first position in Nigeria in the democratization of poverty!

Tinubu’s legacy investments are still standing today and yielding huge returns to Lagos state government. He was one of the first state governors to ever use the capital market for raising state bonds, Lagos made huge ROI on its shares in Airtel, Asiwaju initiated the vision that today birthed Lekki Deep Seaport(only deep seaport in Nigeria and largest in West Africa) and Lagos state majority-owned companies like LASACO Plc are doing well in the capital market.

All these manipulation of facts to rewrite history in order to hype Mr Obi will end in 5 days time.when Mr Obi would have been defeated at the polls in a free, fair, transparent and credible election.

The good thing is that his defeat will teach other current and past mediocre governors a lesson: If you do not want to be paying PR guys money to hype you, work very hard in office so that your work will speak for you.
Nigerians will open your record for posterity when you are mediocre in office then come later to contest. No media hype will pull wool over people’s eyes.Serve well. He is wasting his money on sponsored post.smh

Serve excellently like Tinubu served Lagos as Governor for 8 years. Mr Obi and Alhaji Atiku were mediocre in office for 8 years.
check my signature for free stuffs!

Bad belle..

OBI

The emperor, the conqueror, the champion, the LION is here!

OPICANTO2223:
Another Oduduwpig spewing thrash.

No No stop that, it was tribalism that got us into the mess we are in.

I agree this guy is a tribalist, but let him wail.

Obi Datti are the men for the job regardless of how he feels..

Kabirudeen25:
Please how can I start making money from programming in Nigeria, I am a full stack web developer with laptop and electricity, but I don't know what to do..

upwork, get paid work on there brother

Devdevdev:
You hardly see Nigerians teaching coding or talking about programming related stuff on on social media, especially on Youtube. This is because this is actually a legit way to be a successful person and it involves a lot of hard work, determination and consistence.

Nigerians only like to propagate get rich schemes and fraudulent stuff like plagiarizing books to post on Amazon or some rubbish Ponzi scheme. The common thread that links all these is that they don't involve much work and all you have to do is just do the little, then sit and wait for money to start pouring into your account. I admit there are a tiny minority of people who make money from these, but it's usually for a short period of time until it crashes or they get banned from Amazon, or get arrested, but the majority of people don't get shit, rather they jump from one get rich scheme to the other until they realize they've wasted their time.

Programming will never be saturated with competent programmers especially in this country because majority of people don't have the discipline and delligence to actually become competent programmers.

For the past month I've not been on social media. I deleted my Twitter, Facebook Tiktok, Instagram and vowed to never check status on WhatsApp because that's a very huge distraction. I only use Nairaland and Reddit, particularly for programming related information. I deleted every movie from my laptop and haven't watched TV for weeks.

How many people can do this? How many people can sit at a desk staring at a computer screen for 12+ hours everyday?

Nigerians are very lazy and are addicted to quick gratification and this works in the favor of programmers who are serious, because it reduces the competitiveness of the job market.

You are talking through your backside, Nigerian developers are there. Come to London or Silicon Valley, we are earning good money. All you probably know is Yaba. Dont assume, because you dont know many developers, that they aren't there. Mumu

MufasaLion:
A group of clowns with no progressive mindset.

Correction a group of OLD useless clowns with no progressive mindset

shortIGBOman:
Since Dino is not an Igbo man, he can't flaunt his wealth abi? Dino is not into drugs or criminalities like Peter Obi's Brothers. Dino made his wealth via Politics. If e pain you, go join Politics.

Another fake account I see

Taich:
If you are serious, can we have a conversation on this? Have Dino been involved in any business or paid employment all his life?

Dino and his likes are bad influence on the younger youths of this country, "chopping without working" that's why quick riches syndrome is endemic in forms of Yahoo, money ritual, drug trafficking and Prostitution

People like him are part of the problem, they don't condemn Dino, because they foolishly hope to do the same in the future. The rot sadly runs deep in Nigeria..

Stealing is not hustling or business...

Brendaniel:
The noise on this blue rail line is getting too much, can they just finish the work and let people start enjoying the service, it is like the project is now been used as a campaign tool instead of serving the people, this is one reason I preferred Ambode's government, he doesn't make noise with projects, you just see the project done without media hype and ceremonies.

Ambode is still the best Lagos governor since 1999 - but Tinubu removed him because Tinubu wanted to steal more for himself and his cronies

Bros have you forgotten the mess ambode made with refuse collection??

Never seen Lagos Island so dirty mtchew..

Northerners going to northern..

TINUBUISMAD:
Our incoming President

our incoming president.. Looking forward to it..

Clearly a sponsored thread, Peter obi is the incoming president whether you like it or not.

Dead on arrival, who wants another Buhari

Ekundayo7574:
all this stuff are trash and useless That man call pandora is a criminal, no propaganda will work this time around

As opposed to the lifeless one Buhari, the old sickly BAT or Buhari part 2 Atiku..

Oya make sense..

WibusJaga:
.

The ancestor bat after walking only 20meters...

LMAO.

Mrkindness:
Yorubas think politics is by playing ethnic hate against the Igbos or abusing Peter Obi.
Tinubu think Nigeria politics is by using everyone who opposes him saying they will labour till death.

Toady he has killed APC as a national party APC is now Yoruba Muslims party. Northern Muslims for PDP and other Nigerians for labour party.

I am not even sure APC has Yoruba Muslims to be honest...

Promoter2:
But really, why are people even more scared of Atiku compared to Tinubu?

Cos his people are the problem

TheNiceGuy:
Nice one.

Those who ancestrally has victim mentality in their blood are coming here to Insult and force us to hate the queen.

As if she's the coward ojukwu.
Always claiming victim.

Hate filled People. Tueh

You dont understand history or its legacy..

Nigeria is a mess precisely because of the actions of her people. She presided over Imperialism's twilight and said nothing to condemn it, nor showed any regret. Yet you feel we should honour her death..?

The only colonised mind here is yours.. Mumu of the highest order..

Spirit04:
How can a grown up man be saying he is obedient? Obedient to whom?
Are you a dog or a slave that is obedient to his master?
Anyway they're mostly kids so I'm not really surprised

Stop being silly, it is just a nice catchphrase.

It simply the reflects the fact that a said obident individual is ready for something new.

Outside of the old brigade the PDP and APC.

That new choice is the Labour Party and Peter Obi..

milann:
how many rounds can she go?

That is for only me and my wife to know