THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT FOR TINUBU’S TYPE

Professor Olusola Adeyeye of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a former two term senator representing Osun Central, assesses Bola Tinubu’s presidential ambition:

“I’m making bold to say anyone still looking at Tinubu as the candidate to beat isn’t reading the tea leaves properly. Tinubu is already unravelling publicly and even a lot of those who ordinarily would have loved to support him are right now having a rethink the more of him they see. He has proved to be gaffe-prone and certainly unhealthy.

“The Southern electorate is very sophisticated and none more so than the section of the electorate in the South-West. There is a reason he’s been christened “Baba Alagbado” and it is not for political sagacity!

“Time catches up with everybody and it’s caught up with Tinubu. It takes those who truly love him, not sycophants, to tell him that it’s time to go stretch out on some lush lawns and play with his grandchildren. The Presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is not for his type.”

Note:
Politics is the struggle to acquire, maintain and consolidate political power. In Nigeria and many African states, politics of who gets what in the distribution of resources does not respect purity of life and goodness of heart. To be successful, the politician learns to be bad, yet present himself as good. There lies the deception that comes with governance leading to massive poverty and unprecedented violence.

#PoliticsAndPower

Tinubu is a goner.

If Buhari can rule, why can't Tinibu?

But what has BAT done to this man?
Just curious

Tinubu!!!!

The man alleged to be suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

Prof Adeyeye is an insider in Tinubu’s political dynasty. His warning is a red flag that Tinubu will be a “flight risk” in the presidency.

Could the disease be the effect of accumulation of drugs from his young age?

Prof Adeyeye God bless for saying the truth and not being ethnocentric. Tinubu's presidential aspirations came very late in his lifetime when he has passed his prime.

Support your fellow Professor in peace dont insult Tinubu just because you support Professor Osinbajo


When he got Senatorial seat under a platform Tinubu helped create and his wife also got NAFDAC DG boss he sang praises of Tinubu... Now that he couldn't get that again because he miscalculated with Aregbesola he is now preaching old age



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Hmm

Aregbesola said worse than you do but end of the day, he came back to beg. Caimpaign of calumny doesn't work on someone whose time has come.

Mooh247:




Support your fellow Professor in peace dont insult Tinubu just because you support Professor Osinbajo


When he got Senatorial seat under a platform Tinubu helped create and his wife also got NAFDAC DG boss he sang praises of Tinubu... Now that he couldn't get that again because he miscalculated with Aregbesola he is now preaching old age



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They're already urinating on themselves

Tinubu is going no where jare!

ogbuefi677:

They're already urinating on themselves

Is it your prick or is it your urination..... Abegy make una leave Jagaban alone, Na Presidency he dey contest he no kill person and he no commit crime

ABAT 2023

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HERO-WORSHIPPING SENATOR AJIBOLA BASIRU'S AGBADA CAUGHT IN A BARBWIRE


This is a rejoinder to Senator Ajibola Basiru's piece titled “Osinbajo: Senator Adeyeye and his dishonest thesis” published in The Guardian of Saturday, May 14, 2022.

Basiru is my successor in the Red Chamber as the Senator representing Osun Central. So, he is my Senator, but he’s in a bit of a pickle at the moment. His cry for help has come in the form of his tendentious attack against me in the media. I hear him.

Before I deal with the substantive issues in his piece, let me deal with the attitude he exhibited. Somehow, the attitude is tied to the substantive issues, but I want to deal with aspects of it that have to do with presentation and character.

It should be a given that when you are the spokesperson of the Senate, which Bashiru in his piece, lavishly reminded us that he is, being the mouthpiece of a presidential aspirant in the public space would be a walk in the park for you, Sadly, Bashiru falls short of this miniscule expectation.

The first rule of public engagement is to respect your interlocutors and understand the issue. You just don’t jump into an ongoing public discussion with an idea in your head without understanding or, at least, acknowledging the context of an ongoing debate. The title and the first paragraph of my piece clearly says it is a rejoinder to Reno Omokri’s piece published in his column (‘THE ALTERNATIVE’) on the the backpage of ThisDay newspaper of Tuesday, the 3rd of May, 2022. The least one would expect from anyone publicly joining the discussion is to acknowledge this. But Basiru dove headlong into it to grab my throat because he wasn’t happy I didn’t have mushy things to say about his preferred aspirant. I apologize on behalf of Basiru to Reno Omokri, the young man who did a brilliant job in the piece I responded to, even though my rejoinder disagreed with his view. A man who does not respect intellect has none.

Now, about character, when a man chooses the public space to declare you “dishonest” over something you had said in the public space, you owe it to yourself and to posterity to either reject or accept that tag. You can reject it by responding or you can accept it by admitting that indeed you are dishonest, or you can just keep mute. In the last case, any reasonable person would take your silence as consent.

I do not accept the popular wisdom that you should ignore people who mischievously lie against you or misrepresent what you’ve said in the public space. No, you should respond. If they are in the gutter and they think you won’t come in there to roll with them, because you are Mary Poppins, or a shrinking violet, oh, please, disappoint them. Jump in, feed them with the slime they’re used to and leave them there to marinate in their natural abode. It befits them. That’s me.

Okay, why this attitude and why over the issue in question? Senator Basiru and I are at this moment on two different sides of the political divide within our party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ordinarily, as my successor in the Senate, I should have no reason to engage with him in an adversarial manner in public space. However, where it concerns Nigeria and our patriotism, where it concerns nothing personal, there are no sacred spaces to speak the truth.

Senator Basiru accuses me of dishonesty. That is heavy. He should not be allowed to emblazon a supposed response to me in national newspapers with a tag of dishonesty without proving it to Nigerians. Perhaps he should look up the meaning of dishonest and then come back and point out to me where I was dishonest in my piece. Of course, I say this because nothing, absolutely nothing in his piece suggests that I am dishonest. Everything he said in response to me only indicates that we have a difference of opinion. You don’t differ with someone else’s opinion and then tag him dishonest, except, of course, if he is and you can prove it or as an adult, you’re still grappling with that basic elementary school English Language curriculum called “Words and Meaning." Whatever the case, I will give Senator Basiru the opportunity to prove it, while I respond to the substantive issues he attempted to discuss in his piece in supposed response to me.

But, before I delve into that, let me say something about my politics and what I am about at the moment without fear of contradiction. Apart from being a scientist and an academic, I have been a Local Government Chairman, a member of the House of Representatives and a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In all these emanations, I have carried myself with dignity and a strong sense of purpose with full respect to Nigerians who I humbly served and still serve. My biggest asset throughout the decades of being active in academia and politics and now is my integrity. To the ironic embarrassment of some around me, I carry it like an egg. That is why there is no one in Nigeria or anywhere in the world I cannot tell my mind. Of course, I should add that I have been that way right from my days as a young secondary school lad through my political and party activism with the Action Group (AG) and the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) and throughout the time of the highly political military of the seventies, eighties and nineties.

Now, as a strong supporter of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in this forthcoming election, I made a conscious choice to follow my idealism. I know the way of politicians, but even though I’m one, I do not stain myself in pursuit of power for myself or on behalf of another person, no matter who they are. Osinbajo did not give me money and cannot give me money. He has given me what I want and it is exactly what I want for my children and for all Nigerians. Let me elaborate.

I read Chidi Amuta’s column in the Sunday ThisDay of the 15th of May, 2022. He had an article there titled “Overcrowding the Presidential Doorway.” Like most informed commentators, he is scandalized by the number of unserious people clogging the space in supposed contest for the presidency on the platforms of the political parties. He took the liberty to mention that only “seven from the multitude of presidential aspirants have any business aspiring to lead anything beyond a local government or town union” and he went further to describe them.

Here is how he put it:

“In the minor parties, my friend Kingsley Moghalu stands out for knowledge about Nigeria and informed options on how to rescue the nation from the present prison house of tragic misgovernance. From the PDP queue, I can see Pius Anyim, Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar. Each comes with options outside the box and undeniable experience in getting good things done.

“In the APC, there is Bola Tinubu who set Lagos on the path to a modern mega city status and introduced a tradition of enlightened governance. Rotimi Amaechi stands tall in the APC pack as one man with an unusual courage and boldness to fix frightening problems. He has fixed things we can see and feel in his Rivers state and all around Nigeria. There is Yemi Osinbajo, exemplary Vice President, an unusual combination of morality, ideas and practical solutions. I hardly know about the rest of the crowded choir.”

I mean, read that again and pay close attention to how he described each person. Is there any description or testimonial that is better than what he said about Osinbajo? Is there anyone better for Nigeria now than a person with “an unusual combination of morality, ideas and practical solutions”? Amuta gave each their due, but he found in Osinbajo an encapsulation of what he found in others and more.

This is a man who has been Vice President for seven years. If in seven years, power did not make him lose his idealism, ethics and can-do spirit, what will the next four years be with Nigeria under his watch? Yes, this Nigeria drugged up in political miasma needs a man like him and I am proud to stand with him! The possibilities his candidacy portends are exactly the tonic my creaking bones need to get on the road for him. I didn’t need to be preached to or converted. I know him. If helping deliver Osinbajo as the leader of our country is the last thing I do here on earth, I will die a very fulfilled man. In politics and in my private life, I don’t do duplicity. In Osinbajo, I find a leader I can identify with, a leader I can trust.

Senator Basiru claims that the central thesis of my piece “is that Professor Yemi Osinbajo is the preferred aspirant of President Muhammadu Buhari.” He read what I wrote and heard what he wanted to hear. But what he heard is not what I wrote. I made a case for why the Vice President should be Buhari’s preference, not that he is. If a person with a doctorate degree is unable to make this elementary distinction, the best I can do is to adapt the words of Jesus on the cross- "Father, forgive him, for he knows not what he is saying."

None of us, at least not me, knows Buhari’s preference, even though he has indicated he has one. I’m sure Senator Basiru wishes his principal is Buhari’s preferred choice. So what is wrong with my being forthright about my own wishes in that regard?

He also has a problem with the following comment I made, which he interpreted as pursuant to my thesis:

“In his piece, Reno missed two fundamental truths about Nigerian politics. The first is that if the establishment does not want you, you can never win the presidency. The second is religion as a factor in Nigerian political outcomes is overrated, especially at the national level. Yes, the establishment uses it when convenient, but, when it matters, realpolitik always trumps religion.

“Nigeria is not a land of political revolution. We have been caught in the web of the ‘Class of 1966’ like since forever and they are still in charge. They determine who is president, irrespective of parties. Buhari, for good or ill, has reshaped the establishment platform to be more pro-North. He may have done it deliberately or it may just be something that has developed naturally under his watch. Whichever is the case, it is today our reality.

“Of course, the popular wisdom is that religious sentiments determine the outcomes of national political contests, especially for the presidency - at the party and general election levels. But the historical facts do not support this. What history tells us is that any candidate of any religious background can be sold successfully nationally by the establishment once they determine he or she is the one they want there.”

He says he is “at a loss to see the factual and empirical basis” for what he termed my Theory of Establishment “in view of the recent political history of Nigeria that saw the presidency of President Buhari dislodging an incumbent President and a political party that has controlled the Presidency for about 16 years before the 2015 electoral loss.” He contended that no establishment wanted President Buhari and the APC in 2015 and then said he sees my comment as “a clear attempt to use a banal assertion to becloud the spirited efforts of the coalition that ripened to the APC and the struggle of our leaders like President Buhari, Chief Bisi Akande, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Ogbonnaya Onu among others that ensure the presidency for the APC against all odds."

Obviously, he is avoiding the basic truth of my thesis and attempting to replace it with his own invented “recent political history” despite hearing me talk clearly about the ‘Class of 1966’. Or, is it that he does not know that all the presidents we’ve had since the advent of the Fourth Republic are fully sanctioned by the ‘Class of 1966’ before the vote that brought them formally to Aso Rock? In 1999, did they not determine, after their bungling of June 12, that Olusegun Obasanjo, one of their own, should get it? When Muhammadu Buhari looked to succeed Obasanjo, did they not freeze him out because they believed at the time that he still had resentments over the Ibrahim Babangida coup that toppled him? Okay, we might say Umaru Yar’Adua was an Obasanjo project, but he was also the establishment’s project to reward one of their own, the late Shehu Yar’Adua. The original coming of Goodluck Jonathan was fortuitous, but he was adopted because he was still part of the Obasanjo project. When they fell out with him, did they not bring back the now contrite Buhari to replace him?

So, why go on a wild goose chase with his “recent political history” when the facts support my basic thesis that if the establishment does not want you, you can never win the presidency? Or why does he think there are pilgrimages to the Hilltop Mansion in Minna or Obasanjo’s abode in Abeokuta by all manner of people seeking the presidency? When his principal went to see Babangida in Minna in January this year, did he just go there to secure Babangida’s sole vote in his quest for the presidency? Of course, the political parties will naturally organize and make their choices and partake in elections, but our history tells us that the powers that be make these choices for the topmost national political position before the ordinary voter. It is what it is and we need not lie to Nigerians because they know.

Senator Basiru claims I said that “religion has almost lost relevance ultimately in the Nigeria context.” From my verbatim quote above, anyone can see I never said that. He used his choice word “banal” to describe my assertion on religion and claimed he was “yet to see the empirical study that support (sic) the assertion.” He said my talk about realpolitik trumping religion leaves the gaping question “when realpolitik matter?” (sic) and “who determines when realpolitik matters?” Isn’t this tiring? The man thinks realpolitik is an event that is conducted formally by some potentate on a date decided by the fellow and his or her court. Perhaps, he thinks it will come with an official parade.

But the most softheaded assertion he made supposedly based on my comment on religion is this:

“I see in the assertion an overly dangerous assumption that mass of the people and their opinions can be easily discounted in a democratic polity. To dismiss with a stroke of pen the possible effects of religion in a largely traditional society like ours in democratic choices is far from being profound. Is the Senator oblivious of the fact that Professor Yemi Osinbajo became Vice President in 2015 largely due to the orchestrated campaign against a Muslim/Muslim ticket because President Buhari was perceived to be an Islamic extremist and hence the party needed a Pastor from the Southwest to ensure the candidacy is sellable to the southerners?”

This one had me in a bit of a shock at first, but I caught on quickly. Some politicians employ religion as their weapons of mass destruction, so they would defend its sanctity as a political tool, even as we proclaim Nigeria a secular state. The truth is that I never said or inferred that “religion has almost lost relevance ultimately in the Nigeria political context,” whatever that means. In Nigeria, outside our traditional belief system, religion is a social construct. You may say Islam is the product of Arab cultural imperialism or Christianity is a product of British and European colonialism, the point is people have come to accept them as their belief systems. As a social construct, a democratic society will naturally value religion as an organising tool for cultural moralization. Saying religion has almost lost relevance in the Nigerian political context is to declare we live in the Stone Age. Religion is a civilizational tool that helps to govern conduct. It cannot lose relevance in a progressive society. I mean, I am not saying there are no largely atheistic societies, but atheism has its moral codes, just like any religion.

Senator Basiru knew that I wasn’t talking about society and religion; he knew that I was talking about the idea that the Nigerian political establishment at the highest level does not choose or reject presidential candidates based on specific religion, as Reno Omokri wanted us to believe when he dismissed the chances of the Vice President becoming president because, according to him, even Buhari, “with his real or imaginary Northern-cult following, can’t persuade the core North to vote for a Christian pastor.” Of course, he forgot that Obasanjo, our first president in the Fourth Republic was a born-again Christian who openly professed his faith, who was rejected by his home base, but was largely installed by Northern political power. He forgot that Goodluck Jonathan was a Christian when they mobilized to install him in 2011, despite the openly desperate attempt to use religious sentiments to swing the election Buhari’s way. The establishment knows that religion works in elections only if they let loose its reins, but they are confident that they and their clerical clients are always holding the reins and working in tandem for their common political interest. That is what we mean by realpolitik.


*Professor Olusola Adeyeye* was a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a strong supporter of the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.

femisplash:
Aregbesola said worse than you do but end of the day, he came back to beg. Caimpaign of calumny doesn't work on someone whose time has come.

where do you see him begging here.

Lying Professor, just like the one we have as VP.

Funny dude

Mooh247:


Support your fellow Professor in peace dont insult Tinubu just because you support Professor Osinbajo

When he got Senatorial seat under a platform Tinubu helped create and his wife also got NAFDAC DG boss he sang praises of Tinubu... Now that he couldn't get that again because he miscalculated with Aregbesola he is now preaching old age

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We will disgrace the lying Professor soon. Just watch out. I am just being mindful of washing Yoruba dirty linen outside where we have Almajaris.

Corporate2020:


We will disgrace the lying Professor soon. Just watch out.

. Yes Boss.. all of them go collect after June 1

Everything I've said here about Tinubu has come to pass

I've said it so many times that Yoruba will not support Tinubu

I've said it that Tinubu is not the choice of Yoruba

I've said it that APC will sink if the party give it's ticket to Tinubu

These were the 3 things I've said and the top 2 has come to pass, the 3rd will come to pass on May 29th and trust that I will surely be here to mock Tinubu and his useless slaves .

Tinubu is everything wrong with Nigeria. He's corrupt, greedy, selfish, wicked, old, sick , heartless and boastful, he will not make a good president ..

A vote for Tinubu is a vote for the devil himself

Mooh247:


Is it your prick or is it your urination..... Abegy make una leave Jagaban alone, Na Presidency he dey contest he no kill person and he no commit crime

ABAT 2023

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who tell u say he no commit crime?all the lagos money he is using bullion van to carry no be crime abi

APC GIVE YOUR TICKET TO Tinubu AND LOSE THE PRESIDENCY COME ELECTION

Ajimusty2:
who tell u say he no commit crime?all the lagos money he is using bullion van to carry no be crime abi

Tax consultancy and auditing services is not a crime, Abi Alpha Beta is sha a registered tax paying company that employs people

Una go support Oyinbo company like Price watercoooper and Delliote as Auditing companies come dey rubish Alpha Beta our own Indegeneous company employing fellow Nigerians

A wise man will listen.

Tinubu gave him Senate ticket

What kind of talk is this

Mooh247:




Support your fellow Professor in peace dont insult Tinubu just because you support Professor Osinbajo


[s]When he got Senatorial seat under a platform Tinubu helped create and his wife also got NAFDAC DG boss he sang praises of Tinubu... Now that he couldn't get that again because he miscalculated with Aregbesola he is now preaching old age



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Are you the one Aregbesola sent to beg on his behalf?

Tinubu is the one who offended Aregbesola and his allies, among them is Prof Adeyeye.

If not Omoluabi who Aregbesola is which made him look from afar, this is what they're expecting of him to Tinubu's personality. B'adie dami l'ogun nu, maa fo l'eyin

We're not happy with him, just letting things slide.

You all will just be yapping nonsense

femisplash:
Aregbesola said worse than you do but end of the day, he came back to beg. Caimpaign of calumny doesn't work on someone whose time has come.

In 2012, Pepe of Real Madrid lost his cool and supported some rebellious Players against his countryman Jose Mourinho, who was the Manager of Real Madrid FC. When a Portuguese journalist asked Mourinho what his problem was with Pepe, the special One said he didn't have any problems with the Centre Back, however, his problem was that a 19 year old French immigrant Rapheal Varane) took his first team shirt from him.

This could exactly explain why Adeyeye is mad at Asiwaju, after spending 8 long years in the Senate, he wanted to continue in 2019, but a relatively unknown Surajudeen Ajibola Basiru had other options, and beat him blue, black in the primary, Adeyeye ran to Aregbesola for safety, unfortunately he couldn't be saved, hence his anger against Asiwaju, and not against Senator Surajudeen Ajibola Basiru, who retired from the National Assembly. Initially, he was an advocate for Igbo Presidency, until he was successfully recruited by Ojodu to join the team of Tinubu disgruntled protégés (TDP) he will go back to Burdillion, he won't be the first to do so, there was Adeseye Ogunlewe and Musiliu Obanikoro, Afikuyomi, Femi Pedro, all of who left Burdillion, but are back now.

If you papa want to die in the deepest part of hell fire make he die. If your Igbo mother want to wail to death too she can, even if Tinubu como horn for head wey he no disguise as devil but he come be the real devil na him me I go still vote for.

E no go beta for your papa mama with your entire household plus generation dead alive n unborn. May Amadioha kee each n every one of your Igbo family. Wail to death na Tinubu I go still vote for.

PrinceOfLagos:
Everything I've said here about Tinubu has come to pass

I've said it so many times that Yoruba will not support Tinubu

I've said it that Tinubu is not the choice of Yoruba

I've said it that APC will sink if the party give it's ticket to Tinubu

These were the 3 things I've said and the top 2 has come to pass, the 3rd will come to pass on May 29th and trust that I will surely be here to mock Tinubu and his useless slaves .

Tinubu is everything wrong with Nigeria. He's corrupt, greedy, selfish, wicked, old, sick , heartless and boastful, he will not make a good president ..

A vote for Tinubu is a vote for the devil himself

Tales by moonlight. On what website is this article written or you fools now lump every Nigeria up with MkpuruMiri addict that pull article from thin air n all sort of yeye website that last 30 secs. Let's have a verifiable link to Adeyeye article abeg.