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Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by TANTUMERGO007(m): 10:23am On May 26, 2019
Why does Asiwaju Bola Tinubu want to learn from a mistake instead of learning from history? History does not repeat itself. Men repeat history and that is a mistake. How can Tinubu be so naive to expect that even if the All Progressives Congress gives him its ticket in 2023 (possible, but iffy) that Northerners will leave prominent Northerners in the Peoples Democratic Party, like Atiku Abubakar, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Aminu Tambuwal and Sule Lamido to vote for him?

If Tinubu thinks that what happened to the late chief MKO Abiola will happen to him, then he is allowing hubris blind his judgment.
I recommend to him the biography of Shehu Musa Yar’adua, titled ‘A Life of Service’, and written by Miss Jacqueline Farris.

In that book, he will read that the late Chief MKO Abiola was a political sacrifice by the Northern political elite of the Social Democratic Party, led by the late Tafida of Katsina (Shehu Musa Yar’adua) who knew beforehand (from intuition, not conspiracy) that General Babangida was going to annul the June 12, 1993 elections and only decided to support Chief MKO Abiola so that they could use Babangida to destroy Abiola and use Abiola to destroy Babangida, leaving the coast clear for them.

As a matter of fact, when prominent politicians asked Shehu Yar’adua why he was supporting Chief Abiola, he responded by saying that if he supported a Northerner, the Northerner would win, but Babangida would annul the election and the North would accept it because they were both Northerners. But if he supported a Southerner, like Abiola, when Babangida annulled the election, the South would rise up against him and he (Shehu Yar’adua) and his movement, will support the South and in one fell swoop, they will be rid of both Babangida and Abiola.

Let us face the truth, the North is by far more politically sophisticated than the South of Nigeria. Only one Southerner, to my knowledge, has been able to outflank the North, and that is former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Bola Tinubu does not have what it takes. He is being led by the nose, hopefully, not to his doom, but to his disgrace.

Recently, Nasir El-Rufai was in Lagos at the behest of the Bridge Club, which put up a hastily arranged, and probably custom-designed occasion tagged, “An evening with His Excellency Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.
It was a moment where El-Rufai delivered the general thinking of the Northern elite as regards Bola Tinubu.
At that event, El-Rufai, who had once knelt down for Tinubu, flippantly remarked “Godfatherism. This is Lagos. Let me tell you something sir; you know, Kaduna State used to be like that. There were three or four politicians in Kaduna that you could not become anything unless you had them on your side. Those were the godfathers of Kaduna politics and you had to carry them along and you know, the three words, ‘carry them along’ mean paying them regularly. “But we chose a different path and the long and short of it now is that after this election in 2019, we have retired all of them; we had to.”
Mr. El-Rufai then went on to give Lagosians tutorials on how to defeat their own ‘godfather’

Defeat, is what the North has planned for Bola Tinubu!
And the problem with Bola Tinubu is that, unlike Obasanjo, he is a coward. The North knows that they have finished using Tinubu. After Buhari’s re-election, they see him as being as useful as a used sanitary pad. In their eye, he is only as relevant as the ‘p’ in psychology. They also know that he is too cowardly to stand up to them and so they are toying with him and disrobing him before his own people. They intend the complete and total demystification of the bullion van-loving lion of Bourdillon.

The drama between El-Rufai and Bola Tinubu just serves to expose the servile and bootlicking nature of Bola Tinubu. It is almost like an episode of Game of Thrones. In this episode, Nasir El-Rufai insulted Bola Tinubu. But rather than face his SLAVE MASTER, who insulted him, Bola Tinubu rather PROJECTED his anger in an UNPROVOKED attack on the Peoples Democratic Party, calling them all sorts of names.

This is what they call TRANSFERENCE in psychology, where a PSYCHOLOGICAL PATIENT transfers his aggression on another person because he is too COWARDLY to face the real object of his anger!
I urge the leaders of the Southwest to look at the man who parades himself as their leader. Surely, they cannot trust the fate of 40 million Yoruba to such an anodyne creature!

A man that can be insulted so irreverently by Nasir El-Rufai and just takes it. Say what you will about Olusegun Obasanjo, but this could never have happened to him.
Bola Tinubu once said this about Obasanjo in a March 25, 2012 interview with Vanguard newspapers:
“If you underestimate Obasanjo, it is at your own peril because he has the character, strategy and will to destabilize you and you are gone to the bush, you are gone to the rubble. Very deceitful.”
The above assessment is very correct. This is the type of leader the Southwest needs to plot their political ascendancy post 2019, not a servile bootlicker that can be toyed with by Nasir El-Rufai. Not at all.

Bola Tinubu is nothing but a Quisling. He is not fit to stand beside Olusegun Obasanjo, perhaps the greatest leader to have come out of Africa. It is just a pity, that it is the North that knows this man’s worth more than the South and more than his own people.
But in an attempt to make them appreciate the blessing that God gave them, let me just talk a little about Obasanjo.

Before Olusegun Obasanjo became Nigeria’s military head of state in 1976, Nigeria had had four previous leaders. They were Prime Minister Abubakar Tarawa Balewa, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, General Yakubu Gowon and General Murtala Mohammed.

Of the four, three were murdered. The one who was not murdered (Yakubu Gowon), was overthrown.
Olusegun Obasanjo is the first Nigerian leader to have had a natural tenure uninterrupted by coups, death or tragedy. Think about that.
And then between 1979, when he handed power to President Shehu Shagari, and 1999, when he returned as a democratically elected President, Nigeria had six leaders.
They are the late President Shehu Shagari, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, General Ibrahim Babangida, Chief Ernest Shonekan, General Sani Abacha and General Abdulsalami Abubakar.

Of these six leaders, four of them were removed either by a coup, civil unrest or with a gun pointed to their head. One of them died as a victim of a conspiracy whose plotters we still do not know. And the last one, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, hurriedly hashed over before the fate of his predecessors befell him.
Olusegun Obasanjo, who returned as a democratically elected President on May 29, 1999, is the second Nigerian leader to have a natural tenure, uninterrupted by coups, death or tragedy. Think about that again.

He is the author of six books. Is an intellectual. Is able to speak truth to power and go to prison for doing so.
This man was so courageous that when he was informed in Copenhagen by then US ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington, that General Sani Abacha would arrest him if he returned home, he chose to return home. This is even where he had been offered asylum by the West.

But let us come back to reality. Let us face the present. All over Nigeria, and also in the Southwest, herdsmen of Fulani heritage have been killing Nigerians without the Buhari administration doing anything tangible to stop them or bring them to justice.

Almost everyone has been afraid to speak up and hold the Buhari government to account. That is until Obasanjo spoke on the matter on May 19, 2019 when he slammed the Buhari administration and said that the herdsmen and Boko Haram killings are “no longer an issue of lack of education and lack of employment for our youths in Nigeria which it began as, it is now West African fulanization, African Islamization”.

Four days later, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, put aside his well-known animus for former President Olusegun Obasanjo, to agree with him on his comments on herdsmen and Boko Haram and their Islamisation agenda, and condemned the Buhari government.
That took courage! The type of courage that Bola Tinubu, sadly, does not have. What is Tinubu doing as herdsmen kill his people? He is licking the boots of the Grand Patron. Igbo man say tufiakwa!


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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by TANTUMERGO007(m): 10:24am On May 26, 2019
grin El rufai come Lagos and insulted the bloody coward, instead to fight back he begin go curse PDP way they their own grin


The pot way them wan use cook am the fire for kaduna grin them go cry for am tire for journalist hangout

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by baliyubla: 10:26am On May 26, 2019
Ok

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by SLAP44: 10:26am On May 26, 2019
kophy:
Everyone is entitled to his opinion, but we all know that Tinubu is a game changer whether we like it or not history will write his name in gold, I never said he is a Saint but his contribution to how politics is played in recent times can not be overlooked.

His contribution has reduced the great yoruba tribe to a mere confused set of rubberstamps who must bow to the north. Yoruba has no more say of their own, even as the country is being led into the slaughter slab, Tinubu still leading the way shamelessly.

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by TANTUMERGO007(m): 10:33am On May 26, 2019
wink

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by RichBoy247: 10:35am On May 26, 2019
Why are Igbos concerned about Yoruba/Hausa/Fulani issues. Don't you think you should focus on the drug trafficking menace that is making your people to be executed everyday in Asia?

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by TANTUMERGO007(m): 10:37am On May 26, 2019
RichBoy247:
Why are Igbos concerned about Yoruba/Hausa/Fulani issues. Don't you think you should focus on the drug trafficking menace that is making your people to be executed everyday in Asia?
Sorry baba shay tinubu no be your papa sha

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by anungangampu: 10:45am On May 26, 2019
learnt two english word...

Quisling

flippantly



moving to next tread..


let yorubas handle their matter.....if we igbos understand this we would have created a dubai in igbo land.

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by celeiyke: 10:46am On May 26, 2019
Person write article from Owo, ur brain turn am to Igbo. Pls visit Yabaleft

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by Dannyset(m): 10:59am On May 26, 2019
Tinubu is now their source of livelihood. If they don't painfully talk about him, how will they eat. grin

Una cry just start.

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by TANTUMERGO007(m): 11:04am On May 26, 2019
Dannyset:
Tinubu is now their source of livelihood. If they don't painfully talk about him, how will they eat. grin

Una cry just start.
Why he no tackle el rufai grin

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by orisa37: 11:25am On May 26, 2019
anungangampu:
learnt two english word...

Quisling

flippantly



moving to next tread..


let yorubas handle their matter.....if we igbos understand this we would have created a dubai in igbo land.
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Tinubu is Afonja No3 after Akintola.

Obasanjo is Oduduwa No3 after Awolowo.

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by BuhariAdvocate: 11:38am On May 26, 2019
Finally they have let Buhari rest after the long exercise that end up in futile. In their very eyes Tinubu will have his way again.

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by Zombiekiller010: 11:41am On May 26, 2019
We are watching
Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by Craigslists: 11:42am On May 26, 2019
Experience is always the best teacher.

Epistle of the looters. E be like say dem wan yan another story again...

Abeg Efosa give me SK make I wrap jor!

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by dukie25: 11:42am On May 26, 2019
Great article

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by lastempero: 11:43am On May 26, 2019
The fact that they steal from us and still dont wanna tell us the truth and what is going on in the country is very painful.

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by EdeyHot: 11:43am On May 26, 2019
What is the solution to the problem of this Country? Answer me if you know, Like you don't know, Share if you think Nigeria's situation is hopeless.

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by thechase(m): 11:43am On May 26, 2019
Ahahn
Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by Biglittlelois(f): 11:44am On May 26, 2019
We are not into the 2nd term yet, and everyone is already masturbating about 2023, is that not stupidity in the highest order, furthermore, the earlier Yorubas have brain to always support their own no matter the difference in parties or whatever, the better, northerners have the spirit of oneness among them, even if their own is wrong they'll still support him, this asslicking should stop when it comes to election, let 2023 be a battle for the throne from all tribes, the nonsense turn by turn is just pure rubbish, let the best candidate win, simple.

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by Grafixnuel(m): 11:44am On May 26, 2019
Happy Sunday

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by TrashDetective: 11:45am On May 26, 2019
Tinubu is on dangerous political gamble that could spell doom for him and his lineage.

My take would be that if Tinubu eventually cannot clinch power in 2023 then he has successfully gambled with the future of his family as the entire Yoruba race will never forgive him, his children and those yet unborn will suffer his misdeeds.

Who says a fortune CANNOT be lost, squandered or returned?

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by Honor10: 11:45am On May 26, 2019
This people won't succeed in life, if they have not mentioned Tinubu in a day. How can they fear Tinubu so much? one idiot was even mentioning Tinubu all the way from Far Sokoto and kano during the Guber election.

And all this Igbo yoots that av refuse to get sense, let me remind you, that SW still has the highest appointment for this 2nd tenure even more than the North west.

Lawan will become Senate president, Femi will become Speaker, as Fayemi recently become Chairman governors forum despite Elrufai rant. Those of u that want to die, can die.


Nobody can stop SW 2023, even 40 millions Igbo can't do that. I know Tinubu won't go for 2023, he is just drawing enemy to himself to clear the way for Osinbajo.

Osinbajo will be presented in 2023, SW and North wil massively vote for him(even kano voted for Abiola in 1993 against Tofa their son) and as usual the SE can go and die with their 5% votes.

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by fasho01(m): 11:45am On May 26, 2019
Enough of the obsession on Tinubu please

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by TANTUMERGO007(m): 11:46am On May 26, 2019
fasho01:
Enough of the obsession on Tinubu please
You call it obsession, when he was tackling PDP did you say anything

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by fasho01(m): 11:47am On May 26, 2019
TANTUMERGO007:

You call it obsession, when he was tackling PDP did you say anything


Trust me, I'm not a fan of that greedy kleptomaniac or his devilish party but no need keeping him relevant when his party and it's members aren't doing so..

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Re: Tinubu’s Misdirected Anger And Obasanjo’s Bravery by sammyj: 11:47am On May 26, 2019
The fear of Tinubu is the beginning of trouble for the children of hate and ipod pigs. Why not allow the man have peace and if I may ask is there any problem with seeking or having the ambition to become the president. Let him come out while we decide if we want him or not!!

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