Whoever wins the February 2023 presidential election in Nigeria would have done so chiefly because of, or, in spite of, Mamman Daura, the 83-year-old senescent nephew of President Mohammadu Buhari.

This might seem an ostentatious claim or an inflationary attribution of power to a man whose only claim to it, in the present circumstances, is that the president is his younger nephew. Yet, this is an open secret among those with a deep knowledge of the current struggle for the presidency and the nature of power under the Muhammadu Buhari administration. But most people are not eager to discuss the matter directly in public, either because of discretion and/or fear of the ‘almighty’ Daura.

However, between the candidate of the ruling party, Governor Bola Tinubu, and the candidate of the main opposition party, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, there is a clear recognition of the central role that Daura is playing and would play regarding who becomes the next president of Nigeria.


For the former Lagos Governor, this could not have come as a surprise. He recognizes that the presidency, which has been, for the most part of the last eight years, effectively under the control of Daura, is being mobilized one way or the other against him.


Perhaps more than any other person, it is Daura who has ensured that Tinubu would not reap, as ‘designed,’ the full benefits of his total investment in making Buhari president. When Buhari declared upon acceding to power that he “belonged to nobody,” it was in part a ventriloquist shot from his nephew in the direction of the man who had assumed that he would be the power behind the throne.


At the centre of the process that eventuated in the much analyzed “outburst” of the Jagaban at Abeokuta, when he let it be known to the world that “emi lo kan” (“it is my turn”; or “I am next”) was Daura’s machinations to ensure that Tinubu would not be the presidential candidate of the ruling party, let alone succeed Buhari.

Those who thought that the outburst sealed Tinubu’s fate were to realize later that the man has not governed Nigeria’s most important state either directly or by proxy for 22 years for nothing. By taking the battle to Buhari and his handlers, the Abeokuta wager turned out to be a courageous venture that helped to stop Daura and his constituents in their tracks – and thus, made a mockery of their desperate bid to hand over the party’s ticket to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan.


If Tinubu’s spirited survival of the President Olusegun Obasanjo-led “tsunami” that swept all the other AD governors out of power in 2003 did not convince most people about the man’s political genius, how he retrieved every single South-western states in installments from the opposition and ended up installing Buhari as president in concert with other forces, should have confirmed his unusual political potency. No doubt, that potency was at its most vulnerable when he formally joined the bid to win the APC ticket – and remains so now tas he goes for the ultimate prize.


Yet, it was also the point at which all of his accumulated political assets had to be mobilized in the service of his life-long ambition. However, it must be noted that it was not until Tinubu encountered Daura that he experienced his first major sustained checkmate in the politics of the Fourth Republic. The man who has since become the most valuable player in Yoruba politics was dealing with an unusual adversary in Daura. None of those that Tinubu had had to wrestle with since 1998 – that is, when he started his campaign to be the governor of Lagos State – possessed the strategic advantage of a combination of stealth, reticence and unaccountable power as Daura does.

Cerebral, generous but taciturn, Mamman Daura, the fascinating power-monger par excellence, and the former newspaper editor and manager seems resolved to terminate Tinubu’s political ambition on the eve of the latter’s ultimate home run. As the only surviving member of the triumvirate that can lay claim to almost unbridled influence over Muhammadu Buhari, Daura is well-placed to either hinder or advance the ambition of the two leading presidential contenders, Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar in the February 2023 presidential election.


And he is not shy to use his leverage in tipping the scale against the former Lagos governor. With the passing of the two other closest people to Buhari, that is, the late Emir of Borgu, Haliru Dantoro Kitoro III, who died in October 2015, barely five months after Buhari came to office, and Liman Ciroma, Nigeria’s first qualified archaeologist (who the Guardian of London described in an obituary in 2014 as a “a fine public servant” who was ‘courteous, considerate and generous”), the Daura-born presidential nephew has had no counter weight since 2015. Had he lived well past 2015, the late Emir, who was singularly responsible for brokering the rapprochement that made the “political marriage” of Buhari (CPC) and Tinubu (ACN) possible, would not have allowed the deliberate distancing between the two that followed Buhari’s ascendancy to power.


The first lady, Aisha Halilu Buhari, could not replace the late Borgu monarch. Her intrepid effort to stand up to Daura ended in semi-exile in Dubai, as her husband declared that her place was in the “other room.” But the resolute woman is back with vengeance. Now, as we move towards February 25, she wants to ensure that Daura’s reign would end with that of his kin.

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Come 25th February, Nigerians will get their revenge on APC.

searchng4love:
This is a summary of the 2023 intrigues

IslamIsIdiotic:
Come 25th February, Nigerians will get their revenge on APC.

Do you even know your left hand from your right?

Do you even know who your father is?

searchng4love:

Do you even know your left hand from your right?

IslamIsIdiotic:
Do you even know who your father is?

You see?

Dey play, just dey play. The president of Nigeria has been elected since. Nah announcement remain.

The man is Obi

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Emefiele candidacy

Thanksful:
Dey play, just dey play. The president of Nigeria has been elected since. Nah announcement remain.

The man is Obi

That joker is not even in the race

Obj, Daura and those northern betrayers especially that one called arawa here on nairaland.

We are not scared, we will call out all betrayers.

lazynairalander1:
Obj, Daura and those northern betrayers especially that one called arawa here on nairaland.

We are not scared, we will call out all betrayers.

Well said. We are taking the battle to them O'Ha

searchng4love:

That joker is not even in the race

E go shock you.

You still dey hear

El-rufai son rant abi nah Deji or Omokri 😂

Yes, I see people standing in queues for hours just to beg banks to allow them have their own money! And standing in the sun for hours to buy fuel.

I see a lot.

searchng4love:

You see?

All these stories for a microphone licking urinating machine drug head?

Thanksful:


E go shock you.

You still dey hear

El-rufai son rant abi nah Deji or Omokri 😂

Better go and realign.

BeardedmeatR:
All these stories for a microphone licking urinating machine drug head?

How does your fabrications change the ethnic bigotry of clannish Peter Obi?

searchng4love:


Better go and realign.

I don't align with human senses. I align with divine senses

Thanksful:


I don't align with human senses. I align with divine senses

Okay I hear

searchng4love:


How does your fabrications change the ethnic bigotry of clannish Peter Obi?

Lol

I'm sick and tired of consoling you wailers but I'll advice you save your tears for February 25th.

searchng4love:
This is a summary of the 2023 intrigues

Tinubu was sidelined by buhari as soon as he was sworn in but you idiots denied it even after Remi went weeping on TV.

Abeg wail in peace o

BeardedmeatR:
Lol

I'm sick and tired of consoling you wailers but I'll advice you save your tears for February 25th.

Stay on topic.

When Tinubu said Emilokan, he actually meant it was his turn after Awolowo, Abiola and Diya.

BeardedmeatR:
When Tinubu said Emilokan, he actually meant it was his turn after Awolowo, Abiola and Diya.

Ordinary Wike booted Peter Obi out of PDP

searchng4love:

Stay on topic.

Hahaha 😜😜

I can't deny you your right to kick and vent your frustrations. Your candidate is the most disadvantaged going into this election.

You are like one bereaved.

You have earned the right to wail to death.

searchng4love:

Ordinary Wike booted Peter Obi out of PDP

But today, Wike is wailing by the roadside while Obi holds court with joy worldwide 😜😜

searchng4love:

Okay I hear

Tinubu urchins thought buhari would rig the election for Tinubu. They sucked buhari's arse here on NL on a daily basis. But see you now, running from pillar to post trying to tell us about cabals that you denied ever existed. Even when they made osubande irrelevant in the villa.

Interesting..... only time will tell

searchng4love:
Whoever wins the February 2023 presidential election in Nigeria would have done so chiefly because of, or, in spite of, Mamman Daura, the 83-year-old senescent nephew of President Mohammadu Buhari.

This might seem an ostentatious claim or an inflationary attribution of power to a man whose only claim to it, in the present circumstances, is that the president is his younger nephew. Yet, this is an open secret among those with a deep knowledge of the current struggle for the presidency and the nature of power under the Muhammadu Buhari administration. But most people are not eager to discuss the matter directly in public, either because of discretion and/or fear of the ‘almighty’ Daura.

However, between the candidate of the ruling party, Governor Bola Tinubu, and the candidate of the main opposition party, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, there is a clear recognition of the central role that Daura is playing and would play regarding who becomes the next president of Nigeria.


For the former Lagos Governor, this could not have come as a surprise. He recognizes that the presidency, which has been, for the most part of the last eight years, effectively under the control of Daura, is being mobilized one way or the other against him.


Perhaps more than any other person, it is Daura who has ensured that Tinubu would not reap, as ‘designed,’ the full benefits of his total investment in making Buhari president. When Buhari declared upon acceding to power that he “belonged to nobody,” it was in part a ventriloquist shot from his nephew in the direction of the man who had assumed that he would be the power behind the throne.


At the centre of the process that eventuated in the much analyzed “outburst” of the Jagaban at Abeokuta, when he let it be known to the world that “emi lo kan” (“it is my turn”; or “I am next”) was Daura’s machinations to ensure that Tinubu would not be the presidential candidate of the ruling party, let alone succeed Buhari.

Those who thought that the outburst sealed Tinubu’s fate were to realize later that the man has not governed Nigeria’s most important state either directly or by proxy for 22 years for nothing. By taking the battle to Buhari and his handlers, the Abeokuta wager turned out to be a courageous venture that helped to stop Daura and his constituents in their tracks – and thus, made a mockery of their desperate bid to hand over the party’s ticket to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan.


If Tinubu’s spirited survival of the President Olusegun Obasanjo-led “tsunami” that swept all the other AD governors out of power in 2003 did not convince most people about the man’s political genius, how he retrieved every single South-western states in installments from the opposition and ended up installing Buhari as president in concert with other forces, should have confirmed his unusual political potency. No doubt, that potency was at its most vulnerable when he formally joined the bid to win the APC ticket – and remains so now tas he goes for the ultimate prize.


Yet, it was also the point at which all of his accumulated political assets had to be mobilized in the service of his life-long ambition. However, it must be noted that it was not until Tinubu encountered Daura that he experienced his first major sustained checkmate in the politics of the Fourth Republic. The man who has since become the most valuable player in Yoruba politics was dealing with an unusual adversary in Daura. None of those that Tinubu had had to wrestle with since 1998 – that is, when he started his campaign to be the governor of Lagos State – possessed the strategic advantage of a combination of stealth, reticence and unaccountable power as Daura does.

Cerebral, generous but taciturn, Mamman Daura, the fascinating power-monger par excellence, and the former newspaper editor and manager seems resolved to terminate Tinubu’s political ambition on the eve of the latter’s ultimate home run. As the only surviving member of the triumvirate that can lay claim to almost unbridled influence over Muhammadu Buhari, Daura is well-placed to either hinder or advance the ambition of the two leading presidential contenders, Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar in the February 2023 presidential election.


And he is not shy to use his leverage in tipping the scale against the former Lagos governor. With the passing of the two other closest people to Buhari, that is, the late Emir of Borgu, Haliru Dantoro Kitoro III, who died in October 2015, barely five months after Buhari came to office, and Liman Ciroma, Nigeria’s first qualified archaeologist (who the Guardian of London described in an obituary in 2014 as a “a fine public servant” who was ‘courteous, considerate and generous”), the Daura-born presidential nephew has had no counter weight since 2015. Had he lived well past 2015, the late Emir, who was singularly responsible for brokering the rapprochement that made the “political marriage” of Buhari (CPC) and Tinubu (ACN) possible, would not have allowed the deliberate distancing between the two that followed Buhari’s ascendancy to power.


The first lady, Aisha Halilu Buhari, could not replace the late Borgu monarch. Her intrepid effort to stand up to Daura ended in semi-exile in Dubai, as her husband declared that her place was in the “other room.” But the resolute woman is back with vengeance. Now, as we move towards February 25, she wants to ensure that Daura’s reign would end with that of his kin.

There's no cabal anywhere. It's just buhari dealing with Tinubu.

Tinubu used his past to destroy his future and you want buhari who executed drug dealers to allow Tinubu to be the face of Nigeria in this century?

Bhahahah

Okoroawusa say something 😜

Ooops!

Okoroawusa read and passed.
I know he was never a Tinubu supporter but got caught up in the bandwagon just to be accepted by his fellow urchins.

Okoroawusa:
Interesting..... only time will tell

Ah Okoroawusa is here! 😜😜
What's new?

That there are cabals?

But you lived in denial for seven years 😜

Omo interesting times are here ooo

So suddenly cabals wan kee una

Is God not wonderful?😂

I thought after buhari raised Tinubus shaky hands in Bauchi, his urchins would stop wailing

Yarimo!!!

Oya knack me the picture of buhari raising Tinubus shaky hands. 😜

It's now confirmed that there is a deep conspiracy against Tinubu. But God will raise confusion in their midst and their evil plot shall fail IJN!