Obadiah Mailafia, a former deputy governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says there are some unidentified people who want to use Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos state, and “crush him.”

In an interview with PUNCH , Mailafia said though, Tinubu could discern talents and mentor them to leadership roles, he has been “abjectly naive.”

The former deputy governor of CBN said this when he was asked to comment on a statement credited to Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, on zoning arrangements for the office of president.

Mailafia described the governor of Kaduna as “a man of ambition who is susceptible to grand self delusions of the order of Bonaparte.”

“The 1999 constitution does not require ‘zoning’ as such. However, I believe that evolving constitutional conventions and norms lead us ineluctably in that direction,” he said.

“Governor Nasir el-Rufai is evidently a man of ambition, and often susceptible to grand self delusions of the order of Bonaparte. Obasanjo in his memoirs describes him (el-Rufai) as someone who is loyal only to himself.

“At a dinner lecture in Lagos recently, he fired salvos at the lion of Bourdillon, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The latter, we all concede, has this extraordinary clairvoyance and percipience for identifying talents and mentoring them for leadership. But Jagaban Borgu has been abjectly naïve.

“He does not know that they just want to use him and crush him. He would be wise to be wary of those whose traditions of rulership allows them to give their daughter to you in marriage only for the sole purpose of finding out your innermost weaknesses, the better to destroy you.”

He said it appears that Tinubu does not seem to understand “the kind of political animals he is dealing with.”

“He doesn’t realise that the game-plan is to exploit to the fullest his political and financial capital and to forebear with him until such a time as they are in a position to run him aground,” Mailafia said.

He added that Tinubu has the right to aspire to become president but “the north will not relinquish power any time soon.”

SLAP44:
It has happened so many times after the war, first it was Awolowo that they used his direction to win the civil war and then he was thrown into the corner and milked till they needed nothing from him, then they hounded him till death.

Then it the turn of Benjamin Adekunle, upon all his bravery in killing his southern neighbors to be in the good books of the north, he was rudely shoved aside after the war. They couldn't even promote him, they sacked him and sent him on exile where even on his sick bed, they abandoned him to die.

Then came Oladipo Diya, they used him to calm nerves in a season when they need the south to support the junta, and blam! They claimed he planned a coup, he was shamed and dumped in the dustbin of history till he passed on.

MKO Abiola nko? They allowed him to be in charge and deceive himself that he knew them and they can run things together till the very last minute when they then decided to humiliate and finish him and his beautiful wife.

Do we talk about Shonekan, the one Abacha flogged out of office when he got annoyed one early morning, Buharri was there laughing at the background.

Someone should tell the Jagaban to look at the history books and see that the odds are stacked highly against him. His naivety was thrown at his face when he thought he could control the government through his boy Osinbaba, now Osinbaba has been reduced to a mere pedestrian in Aso village when other non elected men are ruling over him.

SLAP44:
It has happened so many times after the war, first it was Awolowo that they used his direction to win the civil war and then he was thrown into the corner and milked till they needed nothing from him, then they hounded him till death.

Then it the turn of Benjamin Adekunle, upon all his bravery in killing his southern neighbors to be in the good books of the north, he was rudely shoved aside after the war. They couldn't even promote him, they sacked him and sent him on exile where even on his sick bed, they abandoned him to die.

Then came Oladipo Diya, they used him to calm nerves in a season when they need the south to support the junta, and blam! They claimed he planned a coup, he was shamed and dumped in the dustbin of history till he passed on.

MKO Abiola nko? They allowed him to be in charge and deceive himself that he knew them and they can run things together till the very last minute when they then decided to humiliate and finish him and his beautiful wife.

Do we talk about Shonekan, the one Abacha flogged out of office when he got annoyed one early morning, Buharri was there laughing at the background.

Someone should tell the Jagaban to look at the history books and see that the odds are stacked highly against him. His naivety was thrown at his face when he thought he could control the government through his boy Osinbaba, now Osinbaba has been reduced to a mere pedestrian in Aso village when other non elected men are ruling over him.

mrvitalis:

Yet they hate igbos more

Toroso:
Nnamdi Azikwe - I’d rather be any of this ones than a foolish senseless Azikwe who couldn’t even differentiate who hold power btw prime minister n president only to plan an unsuccessful coup killing every one in sight after he as been informed of his folly.

Aguiyi Ironsi - used n kill like a pig that he truly is, no point wasting word on that rnoron.

Ojukwu - the cursed Cambridge graduate that was beaten blueblack by gworo chewing n Kunu sipping almajiri. A waste of his father’s ill gotten wealth, who know his father might have been the Invictus of that era.

Ekwueme - the bastard that was left to rot in jail for the crime of shagari.

Okadigbo Ewerem Anyim n other despicalysouls that refuse to learn even after being thoroughly use n dumped where are they now. You dolt just do not learn.

As una talk say them nurture una from womb with hate for this 9ja you go meet person wey hate you pass scum of the earth. Awon Oloriburuku dede !

SLAP44:
It has happened so many times after the war, first it was Awolowo that they used his direction to win the civil war and then he was thrown into the corner and milked till they needed nothing from him, then they hounded him till death.

Then it the turn of Benjamin Adekunle, upon all his bravery in killing his southern neighbors to be in the good books of the north, he was rudely shoved aside after the war. They couldn't even promote him, they sacked him and sent him on exile where even on his sick bed, they abandoned him to die.

Then came Oladipo Diya, they used him to calm nerves in a season when they need the south to support the junta, and blam! They claimed he planned a coup, he was shamed and dumped in the dustbin of history till he passed on.

MKO Abiola nko? They allowed him to be in charge and deceive himself that he knew them and they can run things together till the very last minute when they then decided to humiliate and finish him and his beautiful wife.

Do we talk about Shonekan, the one Abacha flogged out of office when he got annoyed one early morning, Buharri was there laughing at the background.

Someone should tell the Jagaban to look at the history books and see that the odds are stacked highly against him. His naivety was thrown at his face when he thought he could control the government through his boy Osinbaba, now Osinbaba has been reduced to a mere pedestrian in Aso village when other non elected men are ruling over him.

SLAP44:
It has happened so many times after the war, first it was Awolowo that they used his direction to win the civil war and then he was thrown into the corner and milked till they needed nothing from him, then they hounded him till death.

Then it the turn of Benjamin Adekunle, upon all his bravery in killing his southern neighbors to be in the good books of the north, he was rudely shoved aside after the war. They couldn't even promote him, they sacked him and sent him on exile where even on his sick bed, they abandoned him to die.

Then came Oladipo Diya, they used him to calm nerves in a season when they need the south to support the junta, and blam! They claimed he planned a coup, he was shamed and dumped in the dustbin of history till he passed on.

MKO Abiola nko? They allowed him to be in charge and deceive himself that he knew them and they can run things together till the very last minute when they then decided to humiliate and finish him and his beautiful wife.

Do we talk about Shonekan, the one Abacha flogged out of office when he got annoyed one early morning, Buharri was there laughing at the background.

Someone should tell the Jagaban to look at the history books and see that the odds are stacked highly against him. His naivety was thrown at his face when he thought he could control the government through his boy Osinbaba, now Osinbaba has been reduced to a mere pedestrian in Aso village when other non elected men are ruling over him.

Basic123:
Na them

SLAP44:
It has happened so many times after the war, first it was Awolowo that they used his direction to win the civil war and then he was thrown into the corner and milked till they needed nothing from him, then they hounded him till death.

Then it the turn of Benjamin Adekunle, upon all his bravery in killing his southern neighbors to be in the good books of the north, he was rudely shoved aside after the war. They couldn't even promote him, they sacked him and sent him on exile where even on his sick bed, they abandoned him to die.

Then came Oladipo Diya, they used him to calm nerves in a season when they need the south to support the junta, and blam! They claimed he planned a coup, he was shamed and dumped in the dustbin of history till he passed on.

MKO Abiola nko? They allowed him to be in charge and deceive himself that he knew them and they can run things together till the very last minute when they then decided to humiliate and finish him and his beautiful wife.

Do we talk about Shonekan, the one Abacha flogged out of office when he got annoyed one early morning, Buharri was there laughing at the background.

Someone should tell the Jagaban to look at the history books and see that the odds are stacked highly against him. His naivety was thrown at his face when he thought he could control the government through his boy Osinbaba, now Osinbaba has been reduced to a mere pedestrian in Aso village when other non elected men are ruling over him.