Embarrassed by the needless threats and
vitriolic vituperation from the leaders of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, as a result of the
emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon.
Yakubu Dogara as Ssenate President and
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
respectively, President Muhammadu Buhari has
prevailed on leaders of the party to sheathe
their swords.
In fact, it took a personal communication
between Mr. President and Chairman of the
APC, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, before the
breaks could be applied.
Consequently, it was Chief Oyegun who told
State House correspondents on Friday after a
brief meeting with the President that the party
has accepted Saraki and Dogara as leaders of
the National Assembly – its 8th session.
Sunday Vanguard gathered that Buhari, who
had just a few hours after the emergence of the
senator and the House member, issued a
statement through his Special Adviser on Public
Affairs, Femi Adeshina, congratulating them and
averring that a constitutional process has just
taken place, used the opportunity of the
presentation of the handover notes on Friday, to
speak directly with Oyegun on the matter.
Sunday Vanguard was also able to confirm that
Oyegun, sensing the tone of the communication
between him and Mr. President quickly used the
opportunity of the press chat to make the
detour, “as demanded by President Buhari”, a
source revealed.
Oyegun’s recant was in complete opposition to
the earlier position, though unspoken, taken by
APC’s National Leader, Senator Bola Tinubu,
whose hands and legs were alleged to be in the
heated politicking to ensure that Senator Ahmed
Lawan and George Akume emerged as Senate
President and Deputy Senate President,
respectively, while Femi Gbajabiamila emerged
as Speaker of the House.
Indeed, sources close to Buhari informed
Sunday Vanguard that by Wednesday, after the
Senator Barnabas Gemade-led Unity Group
members of the Senate took their oath, and the
drama that followed with the walkout and the
threat of litigation, made worse by the snubbing
of Senate President Saraki by wife of APC’s
National Leader, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, the
President and a few people in is inner circle
were beginning to get worried.
Therefore, it was agreed that before his trip
yesterday to South Africa for the Africa Union
Summit, the matter must be laid to rest.
It was this decision that informed the presence
of Oyegun at Friday’s meeting after which he
spoke to members of the press.
It was a difficult pill for a section of the
leadership of the APC to swallow as almost all
stops had been pulled to ensure that Lawan
and Akume emerged, just as it was hoped that
Gbajabiamila would win the speakership. It
all turned out to be fools’ errand as none of
these materialized.
Even the last minute name-dropping, of
summoning a meeting of APC legislators for
9am on Monday morning knowing that the
inauguration was slated for an hour later, and
claiming that the meeting was called by
President Buhari, a situation which strangely
gave way to the loss and comeuppance, did not
bode well with Mr. President.
And whereas he had grudgingly agreed to
attend the meeting that morning in honour of
the party, President Buhari had been very
insistent in maintaining that he would not
interfere with the process that would lead to the
emergence of the leaders of the National
Assembly.
Sunday Vanguard was made to understand that
whereas backroom channels were also used to
call some leaders of the party who were baying
for blood to order, Buhari had been making it
known to those who had sought his views on
the emergence of Saraki and Dogara that the
peace, stability and progress of Nigeria far
outweighed any individual’s ambition “to be in
charge”.
And although the source bluntly refused to be
dragged into explaining the veiled phrase,
political observers were clear in their perception
that APC’s National Leader may have been the
arrowhead of the wing of APC that wanted
Lawan and Akume as well as Gbajabiamila.
All attempts to get some leaders of the party to
comment on the matter were unsuccessful.




http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/sarakidogara-buhari-steps-in-stops-further-hostilities/

Buhari just proved one thing to Tinubu, Lai mohammed and Tinubu's teeming followers and supporters. He just proved to them that he is the number one leader of APC party. If he does not intervene APC will continue to drift apart because, APC politicians are not ready to give Tinubu that priviledge of lording over them like how he does in the south-west.

I remember watching Lai Mohammed on sunrise show (channels Tv) arrogantly asserting that APC does not have a number one leader. I had an argument with some of my yoruba friends who are Tinubu supporters and they said same. They were all shouting that Tinubu is the number one leader of APC.

Buhari's silence on this Saraki/Dogara issue have been the bane of APC's continuous and deepening Crisis.

Now, watch how Buhari proves to this deluded Lai mohammed and Tinubu's supporters that he is the number one leader of APC by breaking his silence and calling the warring factions to order.

I wonder how people will be expecting an ordinary politician to be the leader of a Ruling party, when there is a president from that party.

Buhari is simply implicit in Sarki/Dogara's emergence as leaders of the national assembly just to prove a point and his silence and breaking of his silence will further prove a point, that he is the leader and not the self-glorifying, megalomaniac and narccissitic Tinubu.

Ok

That's my president





Peace loving

Sai baba

That is a man of INTEGRITY and FORESIGHT.

Any attempt by the APC leadership to sanction the Saraki group will be the beginning of the end of the party. They should sheath their swords and live to fight another day.

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lurther:
Buhari just proved one thing to Tinubu, Lai mohammed and Tinubu's teeming followers and supporters. He just proved to them that he is the number one leader of APC party. If he does not intervene APC will continue to drift apart because, APC politicians are not ready to give Tinubu that priviledge of lording over them like how he does in the south-west.

I remember watching Lai Mohammed on sunrise show (channels Tv) arrogantly asserting that APC does not have a number one leader. I had an argument with some of my yoruba friends who are Tinubu supporters and they said same. They were all shouting that Tinubu is the number one leader of APC.

Buhari's silence on this Saraki/Dogara issue have been the bane of APC's continuous and deepening Crisis.

Now, watch how Buhari proves to this deluded Lai mohammed and Tinubu's supporters that he is the number one leader of APC by breaking his silence and calling the warring factions to order.

I wonder how people will be expecting an ordinary politician to be the leader of a Ruling party, when there is a president from that party.

Buhari is simply implicit in Sarki/Dogara's emergence as leaders of the national assembly just to prove a point and his silence and breaking of his silence will further prove a point, that he is the leader and not the self-glorifying, megalomaniac and narccissitic Tinubu.

Tinubu And The Parable Of The
‘first Supper’-by Mohammed
Adamu
by Nwoguphillip: 8:58am On Jun
13
When I wrote the piece: ‘Tribute to
Tinubu: A Parody of Shakespeare’
a few friends and colleagues said
I was un-characteristically
‘patronizing’. Some wondered if I
too had not fallen for the Tinubu
‘cult of the personality’; or as one
of them put it ‘cult of the
insatiable power-seeker’. And to
quite a few of those friends and
colleagues whose opinion about
my professional integrity I do give
a damn about, I did vouchsafe
some cogent explanation: first I
said that even as I was sure they
knew me not to ‘advocate for the
devil’, yet they should not forget
that I was not one either not to
‘give the devil his due’.
I should say, for the records, that
I believed –and I still do- that
Tinubu deserved that tribute which
I paid to him; that I still think him
worthy of all the sentiments
contained therein and that I still
feel proud that I wrote that piece.
Tinubu has fathered a peaceful
political revolution in Nigeria
which has not only moved our
democracy beyond a notch by its
shattering of the myth of the
invincibility of incumbency, but it
has saved the nation from the
malignance of a ruinous era of
political impunity which was bent
on balkanizing our country.
And let me say that if Tinubu,
afterwards should, for any reason
lend the instrumentation of his
time, his prowess and his
resources in the promotion of any
contrary ideal odious or
antithetical to the noble one of
growing our democracy and
developing our nation-, I should
also, with a measure of antipathy
equal to the enthusiasm with
which I had praised him, deploy
the venom of my pen to harangue
and to dis-approbate him.
But come to think of it, if you ask
me whether I think Tinubu is ‘evil’
–politically, I should answer as
much with the affirmative ‘Yes’ as
with the negative ‘no’. For as
‘beauty is in the eyes of the
beholder’, logically-speaking I
think, so should ‘ugliness’ be also
‘in the eyes of the beholder’. And
so to a bitter PDP whose defeat
the Asiwaju’s deft, adept and
adroit politics had caused, Tinubu
is most definitely ‘evil’; and thus
in the subjective eyes of members
of PDP Tinubu is uglier than the
mythical Gorgon. But to the APC
whose political fortunes Tinubu’s
(even if) neo-Machiavellic master-
tactic has now raised from
‘nothing’ to ‘everything’, the
Jagaban is most definitely no
‘evil’ but ‘good’. and thus in the
objective eyes of sincere members
of APC Tinubu should be the
personification of beauty itself –
politically that is.
Alas, as we see presently in the
treacherous hustle and jostle for
political positions, this is not so
with the hawks and vultures in the
APC who now masquerade as
altruistic progressive change-
agents of the Buhari government.
To these neo-conservative
opportunists, all of a sudden
‘Asiwaju’ ‘The Leader’ is now
simply Tinubu ‘The meddlesome
interloper’! He is as they now
claim ‘unnecessarily interfering
with our democratic processes’
and must thus be cut to size. And
on this you cannot but have a
sense of the poignantly disgusting
and the de ja vu: especially if you
recall what the then Rhodesia’s
oppressive head Colonist Ian
Smith said to the anti-colonial
world of the 70s about
Zimbabweans: “These blacks are
spoiling my democracy!” ‘my
democracy indeed!’
Or maybe if you have some
appreciable knowledge of the
UPN’s Second Republic politics
when the then ‘Adedibu’ of that
era’s Ibadan politics, Adelabu
Adegoke, after a resounding UPN
victory achieved through the
instrumentation of Adelabu’s
political enfant terrible, was told
plainly by Awo that since he had
no western education, he could
not be a Commissioner!
Though academics is not the
basis of this comparison,
Adelabu’s reply aptly typifies,
today, the mentality of those who
have contributed next to nothing
to the birth and ascendancy of
APC, but whose hubris is now
questioning the leadership of the
man who almost singlehandedly
formed, midwifed and nurtured it
to power. Adelabu was said to
have asked rhetorically in Yoruba:
“adiye da lori iresi, sugbon ko da n
kpalo?”, meaning: ‘so cooked
chicken is good sitting atop a
bowl of rice, but a live one is not
good to grace the hallow of the
parlor?’
They said that the Asiwaju wants
to install surrogate leaders for the
legislature so he can remote-
control them. And I say:
‘assuming, without conceding, that
this is true, to what end, if we may
ask, would Tinubu want to
remote-control the NASS?’ Is it to
prevent it from passing good
progressive bills that will give
effect to the promise of ‘change’
by Buhari? Or is it to egg the
NASS on to anti-Buhari tantrums
so that the General’s government
cannot effectively function? I
really don’t get it!
And I even wonder more: did they
not invest Tinubu with all the
sobriquets and appellations of a
‘Leader’? Did they not say that he
was the courageous ‘Jagaban’;
the one who led from the front?
And did Tinubu not lead them
from the front? Selflessly giving
his time, his energy and his
resources? Did he not put his life
on the line of a hysterically
dangerous incumbency
desperately angling to keep power
by hook or crook? Did they not
say that Tinubu’s was a goal-
oriented and decisively go-getting
‘Leadership’?
And need one also ask: did we
not, to the occasional rousing
applause of Nigerians, see them
severally winning one political
battle after another under the
leadership of the Jagaban? From
when Tinubu fought to win series
of judicial victories to restore the
political control of the South West
into the hands of the
progressives; a feat which gave
the earliest fillip to the initiative
for the formation of a formidable
coalition of opposition political
parties?
Did we not see the series of
political mutations afterwards
initiated and set in motion from
the pre-natal stages, the singular
efforts of one man to corral
several ideological eggs into one
political embryo, so as to give life
to a new all-embracing political
Party around which both
progressives and even repentant
fascists could congregate to make
practicable what was thought
well-nigh impossible, namely
enacting the parting of the
political Red Sea to say to the
behemoth PDP ‘let my people go!’
But maybe what we were seeing
from aloof was different from what
exactly was happening within! But
I thought that we all saw Tinubu
burning the political candle
through nights and nights of vigils
to disprove all the known theories
of war which posit that more than
one battle cannot be fought at a
time; I thought we saw the
Asiwaju take on both INEC and
government in a proxy war with
surrogate usurpers of the
baptismal of the new political
ideology, the A-P-C! -and which
he won!
We thought that we saw Tinubu
walk the miles from the North
West to the North East; from North
Central to the South East and from
the South West to the South-
South to build strong bridges of
geo-ethnic and geo-political
consensus; planning and
strategizing to form alliances, to
create leagues of political amity
and to search out for men and
women of weight and of mettle;
political and non-political actors
with diverse gifts and varying
competences, to man the many
points of the opposition’s political
rudder.
These efforts were rewarded with
successes in the creation of the
first ever successful merger, the
formation of the first ever peoples
Party, the conduct of one of the
most transparent Party Primaries,
the emergence of the most
popular presidential candidate, the
running of the most competitive
Presidential electioneering
campaigns, and the first ever
defeat of incumbency by an
opposition party in one of the
most transparent Presidential
elections.
But now that the political dinner
table is set, surrounded,
unfortunately, by opportunistic
political vultures and hyenas, they
are telling us that although Tinubu
is an excellent political cook, he is
not as good in the culinary art of
dishing. That the Party Leader
must stay away from the Party’s
First Political Supper! In fact like
Caesar they accused the Asiwaju
of ambition. The same Tinubu who
had publicly announced that
Buhari had offered him a chance
to be on the Presidential ticket –
an offer which he said he politely
declined.
Tinubu does not deserve this kind
of treatment. The Asiwaju as the
Party Leader and the Party are the
veritable taproots of Mr.
President. If they who care about
Mr. President’s success are left at
the mercy of the Party’s vultures
and hyenas who only care about
the spoils of politics, sooner or
later the shrub of the Presidency
and its blooming foliage will feel
the wilt. It is both morally and
politically expedient that Buhari
steps in to restore rank discipline
and to assure the Asiwaju and the
Party hierarchy that he has ‘got
their back’; just like they, through
thick and thin, had always had Mr.
President’s back.

lurther:

that he is the leader and not the self-glorifying, megalomaniac and narccissitic Tinubu.

How far can hating on Tinubu carry you even if it run on four wheels ? Children of the tribe of hate May the God you worship give you peace.

You mean hating on Tinubu?

Is he the qualities I used to decribe him or not? Or do you think I am just hating?

Pride they say comes before one's downfall. I rest my case.

ayokellany:


How far can hating on Tinubu carry you even if it run on four wheels ? Children of the tribe of hate May the God you worship give you peace.