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BOLA AHMED TINUBU AND THOSE WHO WANT HIM DEAD
I do not like to delve into matters touching and concerning the All Progressives Congress, APC, because I am not a member.

However what is happening in the ruling party today transcends partisan politics and should be a concern to us all. At the very least we can learn some very hard lessons from it.

The truth is that the behaviour of Chief John Odige-Oyegun towards the man that single-handedly made him the national chairman of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is reprehensible.

And neither does this matter begin or end with the way and manner in which the Ondo state governorship primaries were conducted or its final outcome.

It goes much deeper than that and the Ondo affair is only symptomatic of a much deeper malaise and wider conspiracy to humiliate the National Leader of the APC by forces within his party that are even greater than him.

Those forces represent the hidden hand. They are a small cabal of power-brokers who constitute the leadership of the Buhari-led CPC. These people believe that they were born to rule and that they own Nigeria.

They simply used Tinubu’s old ACN as a compliant and ready piggy-back to catapult their way back to power and once they achieved that they never looked back.

Some of us warned Tinubu at the time about the dangers of riding the tiger and allowing himself to be used by these very dark and sinister forces but he would not listen.

No true student of history could have made such a cataclysmic and monumental error given the terrible experiences of others from the south-west, and indeed the entire south, who collaborated with such ultra-conservative, sectarian and arcane forces with a clear and distinct ethnic and religious agenda in the past.

Such forces can never be comfortable with a well-connected, highly sophisticated, independent-minded, strong, unpredictable, uncontrollable and experienced Yoruba leader and southern gladiator with a June 12th pedigree, a NADECO background, a massive war-chest and a widespread and formidable political base.

They may use him to achieve their objective but they can never trust him or allow him to have control of the party machinery or to wield any real power when it comes to running the affairs of the nation.

Most importantly once they have finished using him it becomes their duty and cardinal objective not just to cut him down to size but also to castrate and render him impotent and eventually destroy him.

That is their way. It is also a classic and vintage Nicollo Machiavelli move. This great writer that has had more influence on political thinking and strategies than perhaps any other author in human history taught us a critical and crucial lesson in his famous 14th century literary masterpiece and treatise on the power game titled “The Prince”. He tells us that the first thing that a Prince must do once he has achieved power is to destroy those that put him there.

And that is precisely what those that seek to do Tinubu in are doing. Worst still they are using his own erstwhile discipiles as a first line of attack against him.

It is not just Odige-Oyegun that has turned his back on him but also his former political protegees and former ACN associates like Tunde Fashola, Ibikunle Amosu, Kayode Fayemi, Biodun Ajimobi, Olorunimbe Mamora, Niyi Adebayo, Rotimi Akeredolu and numerous others.

Pulling the strings from behind the scenes and encouraging and funding the rebellion are hardline Buhari-supporters like my good friend Governor Nasir El Rufai and a number of others.

Their objective is to establish a new political order in the south west which is beholden to them alone, to replace Tinubu as the National Leader of the party and to utterly demystify and crush him in order to prepare the ground for the emergence of a new and more compliant Yoruba running mate for either Buhari himself or El Rufai in 2019.

As a graphic illustration of this interesting and unfolding agenda, the powers that be in the APC, led by Buhari himself, fired six shots at Tinubu inmediately after they formed government.

The first was the Senate Presidency affair and the Bukola Saraki matter which saw the defeat and humiliation of Tinubu’s prefered candidate for Senate President.

The second shot was the Speaker of the House of Representatives affair and the Yakubu Dogara matter which, again, saw the defeat and humiliation of Tinibu’s prefered candidate for the position of Speaker of the House.

The third was the vital issue of Ministerial appointments in which not one single Ministerial nominee of Tinubu’s was accepted and appointed as a Minister by Buhari.

Every single person that he nominated from the south west and elsewhere as Minister was rejected and instead the slots were filled by his political adversaries and/or their nominees.

Many erroneously believe that Mr. Lai Mohammed, who is from Kwara state, was Tinubu’s choice and nominee for Minister of Information but this was not the case.

The person that he nominated for Minister of Information was not Lai Mohammed but Mr. Dele Alake, his former Commissioner of Information in Lagos state.

Again he nominated Mr. Wale Edun, his former Commissioner of Finance in Lagos state, for the position of Minister of Finance but this was rejected and Governor Ibikunle Amosu’s candidate, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, got the job instead.

This went on across the board for every single person that Tinubu nominated and presented for the position of Minister last year and it was a terrible humiliation for him. It was a dirty slap in his face.

The fourth shot was the James Faleke matter in Kogi state where it was agreed by the real landlords of the APC in the core north that Tinubu must not be allowed to gain a foothold in the north central zone by getting his own Yoruba kinsman and candidate to be elected as governor of that state.

Hence Faleke was ruthlessly dropped and shabbily treated and another person was selected to be the gubernatorial candidate of that state. It worked, Faleke went to court and sadly he lost. That was the end of the story.

The fifth shot is the thorough and systematic, though subtle and covert, humiliation and relegation of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, a close associate and political protegee of Tinubu and a spiritual son of the reverred Pastor Enoch Adeboye of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), to not just a spare tyre as Vice President but also to a very flat one.

Rather than being allowed to participate in the crucial decision-making processes on vital and critical issues of state and governance as any Vice President should, Osinbajo has been kept in the dark about virtually everything and he has little or no power to effect anything.

When such decions are to be debated, discussed and made the Vice President is never invited into the room and neither is he even aware that there is such a meeting going on.

Worse still he is constantly being directed to represent the President at official functions all over the country as if he were more his Personal Assistant, Special Advisor or Minister rather than the Vice President of the country. Osinbajo’s crime is simply that he is loyal to Tinubu and he has refused to dump or betray him.

The sixth and perhaps most devastating shot is the fact that the party machinery has not only been taken away from Tinubu with the effective highjacking of Odige-Oyegun but that it has also opted to do the bidding of his mortal enemies and to fight him.

An eloquent testimony to this disturbing fact is the outcome of the Ondo state gubernatorial primaries where Tinubu’s candidate was edged out and cheated of the nomination by the party leadership.

This was the last straw that broke the camels back and predictably Tinubu has reacted in a very loud, aggressive and profound manner by publicly calling for the removal of the National Chairman of the party.

Yet calling for the removal of Odigie-Oyegun is not enough. The whole situation calls for critical thiking, sober reflection and deep retrospection.

The point that needs to be clearly understood when considering these six shots and the unfolding anti-Tinubu agenda within the APC is the fact that, contrary to all pretensions, President Muhammadu Buhari is part and parcel of it and he is in fact the moving spirit behind the whole conspiracy.

Nasir El Rufai and a number of others are simply the strategists and enforcers. Buhari, Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari are the masterminds.

Given all this one thing is clear: these people want Tinubu dead. If he does not realign quickly and fight hard to save his dwindling political fortunes and empire his APC friends and allies will destroy him in a slow, clinical, sadistic and systematic manner. And they will do it with a big, beautiful and friendly smile on their faces.

The fact of the matter is that, right from the outset, Tinubu failed to accept the fact that he was in bed with demons.

He refused to appreciate the fact that he was sleeping with beasts that are hell bent on eating his flesh, driniking his blood and ruthlessly implementing an ancient ethnic and religious agenda.

He gave them his all, caused them to win an election and trusted them to honor their word and treat him with respect and decorum.

He failed to appreciate the fact that you cannot make a deal with snakes and expect them to honor their word.

He forgot that you cannot wine and dine with cancerous lepers and hungry tigers without ending up being served as the final dish in a long, blood-curdling and Byzantian satanic feast.

Yet if the truth is to be told, no matter what mistakes he may have made, Tinubu does not deserve to be treated in this way.

Up until the Presidential elections were conducted last year he led and held together the south-western wing of the APC with an iron fist and he was the undisputed leader of the APC in that zone.

All four APC governors from the south west and virtually every single party leader waited on his every word and he called all the shots.

Sadly today, just over one year later, he is a caricature of his former self. Today Tinubu can only boast of having the ear and the full support of only two of those govermors, namely Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state, who will NEVER betray him no matter what, and Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos state who will also stand firmly behind him until the very end.

The truth is that Tinubu has lost much ground and political mileage in recent times and, as more daggers are pulled out over the next few months and years it is bound to get worse for him.

Yet that does not mean that he is finished. I say this because he is a tried and tested fighter and a formidable adversary who is quite capable of pulling the whole APC house down.

It would be a fatal error for any of his adversaries, including President Buhari, Vice President Atiku Abubakar or Senate President Bukola Saraki, to underestimate him or dismiss his ability to fight back.

In July 2016, just after my release from detention and during the course of an interview with Channels Television (which can still be viewed on Youtube) Mr. Seun Okinbaloye asked me whether I could ever contemplate going back to the APC and how I thought the ruling party would fare into the future.

I told him that I would NEVER go back to the APC under ANY circumstances. I also told him that in any case by 2019 there would not be an APC, as it is presently constituted, left because the party would have spilt up into three separate and distinct political entities.

I told him that the Tinubu group comprising of men like Baba Bisi Akande, Rauf Aregbesola, Akinwummi Ambode and others would establish one party, the Atiku Abubakar group comprising of men like Bukola Saraki, Rabiu Kwakwanso and many of the former PDP leaders and governors that had left for the APC when President Goodluck Jonathan was in power would establish another and that the Buhari group comprising of men like Nasir El Rufai, Bello Masari, Aminu Tambuwal, Rotimi Amaechi, Rochas Okorocha, Chris Ngige, Ogbonaya Onu, Adams Oshiomole and virtually the entire structure of the old CPC leadership in the core north would constitute yet another. I stand by this prediction.

These three strong and equally forceful factions can be likened to the proverbial three blind yet ravenous wolves.

They cannot stay in the same cage or remain on the same platform for long without tearing each other to pieces.

Eventually they will all go their separate ways and, hopefully, contend with a newly-branded and reinvigotated PDP in the field of battle in 2019.

What we are witnessing today in the ranks of the APC is the beginning of that bitter separation and messy divorce and it is going to get far worse.

It will be loud, bitter, acrimonious and rancorous and many political empires, careers, and aspirations will be destroyed as a consequence of it.

My hope and prayer is that the PDP, which is also going through its own rigorous process of redefinition and reinvigoration, can get its act together before then, take advantage of the situation, pick up the pieces and win the presidential election in 2019. I am sure that we will.

Meanwhile my advise to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is to watch his back, consolidate his base, fight his enemies, reach out to new friends, accept the fact that he is at war and sleep with one eye wide open. The truth is that it will get far worse before it gets any better.

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This Old Yoruba Man Should Jst Take Cue 4rm His Broda Obasanjo, He Should Jst Rest And Enjoy All The Money He Has Embezzled Cos Politics Is Not A Company Run By One Person.

Hmmm!

Tinubu is now a walking corpse

Am i the only one that Noticed that his demand and call for oyegun's resignation isn't strong and doesn't carry wind

In as much as I will never be a fan of Tinubu, when it comes to my aspirations that Buhari be kicked out of Aso rock come 2019 I have no choice but to stand with Asiwaju because he will be really relevant in any plan that will decide who Nigeria's next president is ...Sometimes we always accuse Tinubu of interference but let's ask ourselves how badly has Lagos fared under his interference ? For Nigerian standards Lagos under Asiwaju just still remains a model city which other Nigerian cities look up to .

See as a whole Jagaban has been reduced to ordinary fura de nunu, it's indeed a crying shame. But I know he will fight back, the outcome of such fight is what I don't know since it can only end in three ways.

FFK what will posterity remember you for? BAT may not be a good person but within the space of time, he has achieve more than any one in this country. Tinubu
will surely leave to the place beyond someday. Therefore let us start writing our own bibliography now!

All is about poiltics of sharing the national cake...nothing more, nothing less.

I think ffk should worry more about his dying pdp.

They will lay a siege together, gather a full force to display their atomic nature.....But unfortunately they all ended up tearing to seven pieces... Isaiah 54:15

confession of Sanusi saying Lagos is more important than Niger Delta is basically the mind of APC-CPC faction of core north.Tinubu should watch his back cos Abuja mafia are planning to take over his political head qtrs in Lagos state come 2019. That is where the final tsunami will take place.

Lesson Learn: Never promote others into the highest rank or seat- promote yourself to avoid disappointments.

jakiedudu:
confession of Sanusi saying Lagos is more important than Niger Delta is basically the mind of APC-CPC faction of core north.Tinubu should watch his back cos Abuja mafia are planning to take over his political head qtrs in Lagos state come 2019. That is where the final tsunami will take place.

i.e. no matter how hard my good friend Ambode works, he might be given the Abraham/Akeredolu treatment come 2019 ? I fear you're right

hmm

henriettanenye:
Tinubu is now a walking corpse

Am i the only one that Noticed that his demand and call for oyegun's resignation isn't strong and doesn't carry wind

no matter how u see it, the fact is that if Apc Didt manage it house very well this may be the begging ad the end of the party. Mark my words. Is just too early for all this in the party.

The loop is tightening round him...many will doubt,but that's the sad truth.
Ain't rosy for jagaban.
The north don't deal on sentiments.
Tinubu dare..and the shots boomerang. everyone saw it coming but his fans didn't want to accept the obvious truth..they called it being jealous of an achiever...look where it got him.

This is the beginning of the end of tinubu's political dynasty..he's far spend.and has made lots of enemies.
Fani is being careful with his choice of word..he knows jagaban is going down.and by this time next year..reality will dawn on his fans.

The north made him to protect their interest in lagos..and backed him till now..they northis about unmasking him.for a new lord in the southwest.

He is not the first,Abiola,Awolowo..al went same way..
Pray tinubu realises this on time..and finds his way..cos anything fighting back. The jail house will be his new home. Sentiments aside.
They north has gotten all the needed from him..lagos is not even sure again.

As for oyegun..his days of reckoning is just around..cos he will soon get served.

Respect jagaban..we win some..we loose some..can't always be winner.

In the coming days, EFCC will be unleashed on Tinubu by the CABAL. The sad reality is that the Zombies that has been praising Tinubu in the past will soon start calling for his head.

History keeps repeating itself, a few persons on this forum said sth abt the unholy alliance between the Yorubas and the Hausas, we gave instances where some Yoruba sons were betrayed in the past by this born to rule fellows.

As it was with Awolowo, M. K.O.Abiola, Oladipo Diya, Adisa, so it will also be with Tinubu, there will be no exception to this rule laid down by those born to rule.

How the political gladiators from the South -west never saw this betrayal coming still baffles me because those who re not so sophisticated politically saw it from inception but they allowed their hatred for some persons blind them, they were so desperate to kick someone out of Aso-rock.
Those very few that knew that this alliance would leave in its trail "regrets and had I known" shouted and shouted to let them see the inherent dangers until our voices became hoarse.


Some fellows from the South west said we were political neophytes, and that we were still smarting from the defeat of uncle "Jona"and so we resigned to fate.Now that the very cold dish is being served Jagaban with some juice to wash it down they suddenly realise that they ve been betrayed yet again by their usual "frenemy"A people that never learn from history nd people's mistakes will always be "harakiried" by a people much smarter, the lessons ve not still be learnt by the Yorubas as they will always be ready to form another crazy alliance with the north wen the opportunity arises once again, they re always servile and patronising to the "born to rule".


The truth is that the north ve too many political gladiators compared to only Jagaban from the South -west, they re ready to stand toe to toe with him financially and connection wise,i know it's for a reason that Saraki pitched his rent with the born to rule and disowning the yorubas despite coming from a Yoruba state and bearing a Yoruba name as well. And there is also a reason that the British pitched their tents with the Hausas and also encouraged them to enlist in the military en-masse.

When the battle began both the hausas and yorubas had a common enemy and like the dictum : " the enemy of my enemy being my friend" played out then, now that the common enemy has been removed, the time to share the spoils of war is now another war in itself because the Hausas can never ever comprehend the idea of anyone trying to challenge their born to rule mentality, that person is quickly cut to size like the treatment being given to Jagaban silently.

I think it's now very clear to those still thinking Saraki would be forced to leave the Senate presidency that he ain't going nowhere,this is how his trial will continue to be a circus show till the end of his tenure. Saraki knew wat he was saying wen he referred to Osibanjo as an ordinary commissioner because he knows that Jagaban is not one of the real power brokers that call the shots or do u think he would still ve referred to Osibanjo that way if it was Babaginda or Atiku that was behind him?

Well let the old fox lay on his bed as he has made it and although I know he definitely still has some tricks up his sleeves given his antecedents as a dogged fighter but it is not going to be an easy fight for him because the the northerners are more formidable politically and financially, the bitter truth is the "ngba..ti ngbat..ti"press that was @ the forefront of vilifying the preceding government has suddenly gone dumb and apart from a very few that ve started attacking the presidency albeit subliminally, the others re still in slumber.

Hmmmm. I think the APC better start preparing for a total failure cos d only hope dey have now lies in d office of d Vice-President, cos he seem like d one in-charge of most of their social development projects, so should he decide to go with Tinubu n refuse to put in his best, they have failed niyen oooo ooo.

Too long

SUPA STORY

RZArecta:
i.e. no matter how hard my good friend Ambode works, he might be given the Abraham/Akeredolu treatment come 2019 ? I fear you're right

The process towards De-Tinubunizing south west started immediately Buhari was elected president in 2015. Buhari not showing up at a meeting for APC senators at ICC Abuja last year that saw the emergence of Saraki as senate president was the first battle. Remember Abuja mafias were also behind James Falake not becoming gov in Kogi state after the demise of Abubakar Audu.
The method through which Abuja mafia manipulated Ondo APC primaries to produce their prefered candidate will be employed in Lagos APC primaries come 2019 at the detriment of Tinubu.

Just like the tower of Babel when God wants to scatter ur enemies he simply changes their Language?APC has started speaking differently languages.

i couldnt finish reading it

Hmm

yh yh

idupaul:
In as much as I will never be a fan of Tinubu, when it comes to my aspirations that Buhari be kicked out of Aso rock come 2019 I have no choice but to stand with Asiwaju because he will be really relevant in any plan that will decide who Nigeria's next president is ...Sometimes we always accuse Tinubu of interference but let's ask ourselves how badly has Lagos fared under his interference ? For Nigerian standards Lagos under Asiwaju just still remains a model city which other Nigerian cities look up to .

Nna, ya tori long o...

Anyways, I think Tinubu may be suprerimposing himself on the APC. He's a national leader and should influence his party positively

MONITZ:
History keeps repeating itself, a few persons on this forum said sth abt the unholy alliance between the Yoruba's and the Hausa's, we gave instances where some Yoruba sons were betrayed in the past by this born to rule fellows.

As it was with Awolowo, M. K.O.Abiola, Oladipo Diya, Adisa, so it will also be Tinubu, there will be no exception to this rule laid down by those born to rule.

How the political gladiators from the South -west never saw this betrayal coming still baffles me because those who re not so sophisticated politically saw it from inception, they allowed their hatred for some persons blind them, they were so desperate to kick someone out from Aso-rock.

When the battle begun, both the hausas and yorubas had a common enemy and like the dictum : " the enemy of my enemy being my friend" played out then, now that the common enemy has been removed, the time to share the spoils of war is now another war in itself because the Hausas can never ever comprehend the idea of anyone trying to challenge their born to rule mentality, that person is quickly cut to size like the treatment being given to Jagaban silently.

I think it's now very clear to those still thinking Saraki would be forced to leave the Senate presidency that he ain't going nowhere,this is how his trial will continue to be a circus show till the end of his tenure. Saraki knew wat he was saying wen he referred to Osibanjo as an ordinary commissioner because he knows that Jagaban is not one of the real power brokers that call the shots.

Well let the old fox lay on his bed because he had made his bed hitherto ,although I know he definitely still has some tricks up his sleeves but it is not going to be an easy fight for him because the the northerners are more formidable politically and financially, the bitter truth is the Yoruba Yoruba press has suddenly gone dumb apart from a very few that ve started attacking the presidency subliminally.

Nice analysis though but the failure of dis government is inevitable n which will lead to there failure at d polls by 2019 n d lookers den will be Tinubu former boys dat betrayed him.

In d nearest.Future I wud become d female JAGABAN of Nigeria....