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Tinubu does not forgive critics, he absorbs them. His reward system is simple: if you once exposed him, insulted him, or loudly questioned his past, you are more valuable inside the system than outside it. Name one top appointee or loud defender around him today who did not once attack him.

FESTUS KEYAMO publicly questioned Tinubu’s certificate and credibility, speaking as a lawyer who claimed to care about transparency. Today, he attacks anyone who raises the same questions he once popularised.

FEMI FANI-KAYODE (FFK) accused Tinubu of corruption, godfatherism, and running Lagos like a private estate. He used words like “criminal enterprise” and “state capture.” Today, he markets the same man as Nigeria’s saviour.

RENO OMOKRI built an online brand attacking Tinubu’s morality, background, certificate saga, and Chicago controversies. He mocked those who supported him. Today, the fire has gone cold, the memory has faded, and the criticism is carefully redirected elsewhere.

DANIEL BWALA repeatedly declared Tinubu unfit for office on national television, attacking his health, history, and integrity. Today, he defends the same record he once described as disqualifying.

NYESOM WIKE accused Tinubu of hijacking party structures, imposing candidates, and running a one-man political empire. Today, he calls it “political experience” and “capacity.”

JOE IGBOKWE once raised internal APC alarms about fairness, equity, and leadership decisions linked to Tinubu. Today, dissent is treason and silence is loyalty.

BAYO ONANUGA and DELE ALAKE once wrote and spoke critically about Tinubu’s political dominance and methods. Today, they are gatekeepers of his image, aggressively rewriting history.

The pattern is not coincidence.
It is containment.

Yesterday’s critics are not forgiven, they are neutralised.
Yesterday’s questions are not answered, they are buried.
Yesterday’s accusers are not corrected, they are compensated.

This is not unity.
This is not maturity.
This is not ideological growth.

It is political settlement, where exposure is rewarded, accountability is traded for access, and silence is bought with power.

And the most insulting part?

They now insult Nigerians for asking the same questions they themselves once asked.

-Baron Large

He just splurges cash on them and calls himself a master strategist afterwards. Meanwhile, all MDAs in the country as well as local contractors are crying out for being underfunded and unpaid.

That's the quality of a strong leader.
I grew up learning about leadership. Leaders discuss while the followers argue

If you don't have solutions to most common issue, if you are part of those who always like to find fault in others, then you are a follower

helinues:
That's the quality of a strong leader.
I grew up learning about leadership. Leaders discuss while the followers argue

If you don't have solutions to most common issue, if you are part of those who always like to find fault in others, then you are a follower

A strong leader inspires loyalty through vision, not through conversion of critics into choir members, on your mandate chanters

If leadership is simply turning yesterday’s accusers into today’s defenders, that’s not strength, that’s absorption.

And let’s be honest: discussing is not the opposite of arguing. Real leaders answer questions. Followers and supporters like you are the ones who get angry at the questions.

If you don't have principles and ready to spend Nigerians money and share position for political reward .. Anyone can do that

Tinubu like principles, there is no limit to what he can't do for power nothing

Ofunaofu:
A strong leader inspires loyalty through vision, not through conversion of critics into choir members, on your mandate chanters

If leadership is simply turning yesterday’s accusers into today’s defenders, that’s not strength, that’s absorption.

And let’s be honest: discussing is not the opposite of arguing. Real leaders answer questions. Followers and supporters like you are the ones who get angry at the questions.

Why hasn't Peter Obi or Atiku joined Apc with coercion.

Abeg make una dey reason this una talk before relaying it on social media

What solutions have you ever provided to issue without blaming and complaining? You in particular is one of the witnesses about my opinion and suggestions on issues on this forum which reasonably are just with reality.

Leaders don't argue, they discuss. Same way we have opened the door for discussion after the 2023 but the usual Nigeria opposition like to be chasing others shadow in the first 3 years after the election hence just talking about E transmission of election results when the election is just a year plus

Show us the threads you created about credible election process before now

helinues:
Why hasn't Peter Obi or Atiku joined Apc with coercion.

Abeg make una dey reason this una talk before relaying it on social media

What solutions have you ever provided to issue without blaming and complaining? You in particular is one of the witnesses about my opinion and suggestions on issues on this forum which reasonably are just with reality.

Leaders don't argue, they discuss. Same way we have opened the door for discussion after the 2023 but the usual Nigeria opposition like to be chasing others shadow in the first 3 years after the election hence just talking about E transmission of election results when the election is just a year plus

Show us the threads you created about credible election process before now

First. Theirs is absolutely nothing Tinubu can use to either persuade or coerce Peter Obi to join the APC.

Atiku was in APC and

Sheuns:
First. Theirs is absolutely nothing Tinubu can use to either persuade or coerce Peter Obi to join the APC.

Atiku was in APC and

Meaning the narration about coercion is unreal

A strategist who has brought 32 state governors out of a possible 36, under one roof, I would say that is a pretty good strategist! Even Presidents Obasanjo and Buhari with all their military background couldn't pull that off.

Ofunaofu:
Tinubu does not forgive critics, he absorbs them. His reward system is simple: if you once exposed him, insulted him, or loudly questioned his past, you are more valuable inside the system than outside it. Name one top appointee or loud defender around him today who did not once attack him.

-Baron Large

He is a political master strategist and a much better man than me sha. Me I can keep malice o.

When I saw him shaking hands with Peter Obí at the Vatican, my respect for him increased a lot.

Same Peter Obi despite losing at the Tribunal or supreme Court never congratulated him once on his victory. Same Peter Obí whose lawyers slandered President Tinubu with accusations of drugs conviction offences which were proven false.

Imagine trying that with Abacha and then showing your face, Bába President Tinubu bí abeg.