₦airaland Forum

larride:
Is Oshiomole not a first time Senator?

It will most likely be Akpabio.

But is there a rule that says a first time senator cannot be senate president in the consistution or is that one of those gentlemen agreements?

Akpabio or oshiomole, who is going to be senate president now?

raumdeuter:
He needed the right time and this was the perfect time
This is The Tinubu Chess game

Opening move decided to go a conservative Sicilian opening
In 1999 he won Lagos State governor

In 2003 when OBJ deceived all SW governors and the AD to not float their candidate that they should support him and in turn he will ensure they retain their seat, Tinubu disagreed with AD leaders on that arrangement. tsunami swept all AD governors only Tinubu survived

Queens gambit declined

He left AD, formed his own party AC and he was the only governor

By 2007 to grow the party he reached out to Oshiomole offered him the AC ticket in Edo vs Prof Osunbor. Oshiomole lost

Atiku and OBJ got into a fight a major fight, Atiku was in charge of PDM he was the strongest Northern politician and as the heir to Yar Adua, OBJ used YarAdua younger brother Umaru to break Atikus hold on PDM
Tinubu saw an opportunity to woo a powerful politician and get on his good side, he gave Atiku a platform to contest the 2007 election obviously Atiku had no path to win. He made Ben Obi Atikus vice. They lost but Tinubus profile started rising
Short side castling

He sponsored candidates in AC all over Nigeria. He brought many politicians treated badly and denied a ticket into his fold e.g Ngige Akume

He brought Fashola a technocrat as governor but didn't hand over the political keys to him
Fasholas performance became the standard for ACN to campaign and win many hearts across the nation
Knight advance

The criminal elections of 2007 conducted by Obasanjo which was reputed to be the worst election in Nigerian history handed Tinubu a huge opportunity
He found an ally in Justice Salami of the appeal court who was instrumental in restoring the Oshiomole and Fayemi and Aregbesola into power
AC grew into 4 states.
Open file Bishop

Mimiko of Labour Party who was denied the ticket was also in tribunal vs Agagu. Tinubu approached him to provide logistic support with belief that Mimiko will decamp into ACN. Mimiko won but declined to join ACN

By 2011 Tinubu spread beyond the SW approached strong politicians who were denied a ticket or chased out of strong parties but knew he couldn't take on the FG alone at this time. He was the 3rd force in 2011

Buhari controlled all Northern states with his new CPC, Jonathan and PDP controlled most SE NC and SS states

CPC and PDP were stalemate here comes tie breaker Tinubu.

Buhari in his idealistic thinking felt he could do by picking Bakare a Pastor with zero structures. He didn't agree to Tinubus terms.

GEJ saw the opportunity approached Tinubu who tactically floated a dummy Ribadu and Fola Adeola(2 moslems who had zero political structures and were barely politicians) he knew weren't going anywhere. Tinubu stepped down all ACN machinery in the SW and allowed the PDP a free ride.
Knight fork
Now he has become a major power broker who tactically made Jonathan president without appearing to.

Buhari lost again and started crying on TV and was hopeless. As a man of strategy Tinubu knew Buhari was at his low and vulnerable, he approached Buhari this time Bubu was more than willing

After winning in 2011, Jonathan started some aggressive moves to break Tinubu so he won't have to beg everytime. One of such moves was to make a SW Mulikat Adeola Speaker, Jonathan thinking was to raise a powerful SW politician that will be an alternative to Tinubu.

Tinubu knew this was an act of aggression on their gentleman handshake and he mobilized the ACN reps to reject Mulikat and support Tambuwal,
Another gambit. Bishop sacrifice to gain a strong position

Tinubu started the cleanup of Buharis image from a clueless out of touch military religious extremist guy to this misunderstood charming, introvert, gap toothed, strong man that Nigeria needed at this critical time to get rid of corruption and PDP in discipline

Thus APC was birthed with the plan to use Buharis popularity with Tinubus money and skilled politicking to push Buhari into power but this time Tinubu was to pick Buharis vice.

APC also won over Atiku after he lost out in PDP and breakaway PDP governors. Atiku came into the convention ground hoping to buy the ticket as usual
Buhari has never done any real competitive primary in a party everyone didn't worship him. Primary ground Buhari was stunned about how Atiku was about to steal the ticket right there with money . Until Tinubu matched Atiku dollar for dollar and Buhari won the ticket

Now the deal was for Tinubu ACN to provide the Vice. Buhari asked Tinubu to give him 3 options.

Tinubu knew he was interested in succeeding Buhari. And giving a strong vice would build up the Vice politically over 8yrs and might build enough goodwill to succeed Buhari
This was Tinubus biggest masterstroke. He gave Buhari an Osinbajo who was smart but has the political clout of a 13yr old girl. Osinbajo was a very safe choice, he was not popular nor charismatic enough to gather the clout to state Jagaban in the face

There were other options like Fashola and Fayemi but they were risky and could get ambitious and endear themselves to people

Buhari asked Tinubu for 3 choices, Tinubu returned with one choice an unknown Yemi Osinbajo who will complete 8yrs and have less to nothing in political power to challenge for the seat
Queen advance

Buhari won election and Tinubu is in a good position Nationall acknowledged as the brain behind the success, thus issues started cropping up, fissures grew in the hurriedly assembled APC. Saraki wanted more than he was offered and broke the party, Buharis packaging has now begun to fall off, the makeup was beginning to melt and the man behind the mascara was beginning to show and its not pretty, Tinubu was schemed out by Buharis CPC friends including Abba Kyari and ElRufai, Things were not going to plan
Should he pull out of the APC, blurt out or maintain status quo and reach out to enemies
The Queen beat a tactical retreat

Comes 2022, Tinubu has broken into the ranks of governors in his party and showing loyalty to them in times of trials won him a lot of die hard loyalists like Oshiomole and Ganduje who will lay their lives for him
By now Tinubu had taken control of all the APC structures and wanted the party to go for a direct primary, Some felt there was no way they could match the network of Tinubu in a direct primary and pushed for indirect where only chosen delegates voted
Tinubu called upon his network of Governors and allies when Buhari wanted to anoint Lawan, they stood up and insisted it goes to the South
He won the primary and cleared the road for an eventual checkmate

Rook to center

You can see it was a gradual ascension filled with scheming gambit which he lost some but won many

I can write a book on this man called Jagaban who many people do not like but smart people deeply respect

He understands politics. He is smart enough not to fight anyone thus always leaving the room for reconciliation open, the power of compromise give & take, persuasion and when to use the power of money

Most times those who fight Tinubu can only do it on the pages of paper By the time you meet him, His humor, his slow thick voice, his offer he will give you, You most likely will leave him calm and ready to compromise

*clapssss*

👏👏👏👏

raumdeuter:
Have you checked in Obis village or Fidelity bank vault

I don even check Pandora haven.

Still nothing 😭😭😭😭😭

GloriousGbola:
the man gets it.

the goal is not lagos state which has been for better or worse in BATs grip since 1999, and which is NOT going to be lost to any fine boy architect from LP. the goal was nigeria

I have actually been thinking about it since afternoon and I have been looking at the bigger picture and I I'm begining to think it's bigger than that.
Lemme drop a conspiracy theory.

Tinubu is a master chess player whom I will never underrate when it comes to politics.

Sacrifice Lagos when you know you are going to get Nigeria and make Yorubas lose that sense of security that always get them not to vote in Lagos.

Then use that spirit in the governorship election.

Since the result was announced, even some of the so-called woke Yorubas are beginning to retrace their steps.
And the current outrage some Yorubas are currently feeling will be to the advantage of sanwolu.

I have seen videos of LP party rigging and thumbprinting ballot papers on social media in lagos, and trust me, that wouldn't have happened without the backing of some apc big wigs.


Anyways, what do I know? But time will tell if I'm correct or not.

Joezinho:
Where is the 1m votes? 😅😅

I have been searching since afternoon.

I thought plateu got 1billion votes

What happened na.

Abi they have rewritten the numbers again

Stevenson20:
Buhari will be missed as we missed Jonathan.

Na now una real suffer start.

for you and the rest of your family.

Well meaning Nigerians are about to have their lives turned around.

Our assistant director has spoken.

Election was rigged for obi in Biafra land.

raumdeuter:
Obasanjo that was fucking his own daughter inlaw is now writing letters

Obasanjo wey Tinubu flog for his own polling booth

Like I said his lineage will be irrelevant in Yoruba history

you beat me to it.

Lagos was rigged geng.

Time to transform the economy.

Nostradamus1:
I got advice from a mad man

😂😂😂😂😂😂😃😂😃😂😃

There is a reason tinubu never lost an election ever.

Time to drink the tears of the unfortunate souls

OasisX:


Rivers!!!!!!!

APC: 17 LGAs
LP: 6 LGAs,
PDP: 0 LGAs



🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

how is apc doing in bayelsa?

I think apc is getting strong there or may be they just love Lyon

Ellexy:
A Yoruba account tweeted that and you're attacking the Igbos... You need to calm down with this your tribal battle.

so if I create an account with chukwuma, that automatically makes me an igbo?

larride:
This has to be one of the most funniest tweet I've ever read.

yes we are the tribalist.

He needs to insult us very well. That way, mumuluabis olopolo asin will give them more votes in the future.

This is how you will know a good president.

Not the ones reading posts from Whatsapp group on national tv about how Yorubas are preventing igbos from getting seaport.

Itsrm:
If everyone voted the way they voted in Enugu, how will Tinubu win?

You are not complaining that Northerners left Atiku to vote for Tinubu but complaining that Yorubas left Tinubu to vote for Obi

question is, why are the people who voted blindly in Enugu calling people who didn't bigot and tribalist?

See as dem vote for Enugu.

Woke mumuluabis will be the end of us

obainojazz:
This election has shown even with a Christian Northern candidate….Tinubu should probably still win Atiku as other Nothern governors are on his side

tinubu would have his votes but he definitely won't have it this good and would have likely lost overall election.

If tinubu didn't go with Muslim Muslim ticket, he will be finished in the north. Muslim Muslim ticket made him well marketable in the north. You think with all the sick baba campaign and drug crap, north will queue behind him?

The same way christians and big pastors are endorsing peter obi in the south, the north are feeding Muslims with jihad Muslim Muslim endorsement.

The difference is it's not broadcasted like big pastors here.

obainojazz:
Tinubu is not an extremist

obviously

One of the reasons I supported Muslim Muslim ticket.


But would senseless religious fanatics see it that way? Or did day see it that way with the results we are seeing so far? What now happens when they start using it against him in decision making?

Religion played a major role in this election.
Religion will finish Nigeria las las and it's Only a matter of time.


I expect christians to be wailing and suspicious of every decision tinubu makes and try to give it religious coloration as they prepare for 2027.

Just like every crime was pinned on Fulanis because of buhari.

Religious sentiment is worse than tribal sentiment.
I just hope tinubu will have wisdom to not allow this religious sentiment to fester to the point where it will escalate to violence and opposition using it against him or worse cause huge violence.

liveLongNprospa:
My guy please you are free to challenge it. When we are challenging ours we are presenting evidence both video and pictures.. Not just mouth so please do that with your evidence.


Nawa oo😩😩

challenge ke..

I no get strength to challenge..

But thunder fire anybody that challenges rivers.

Ogun and amadioha kill em too

liveLongNprospa:
Itsrm... Make we wait INEc

no rigging here.

Apc and pdp must have forgotten how to rig.

liveLongNprospa:
Lmaoooo me.. Cry
🤣

obviously

Na so

liveLongNprospa:
Ahn ahn.. I can see it.. Like the governor of omo ensured you got lovely votes too ba😁

do you need bucket too?

liveLongNprospa:
Like the way rivers voted for apc with love abi🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes.

Expert17:
The man get sense, end sars movement prepared him for this.

North will surely deliver.

they have delivered already.
North will betray tinubu in the mud. Awon political anylist isonu.

they have proven to be better ally. But I'm also glad about the results coming from south south too.
Wouldn't mind making better ally with south south too.
Atleast they don't vote based on hate and emotions.

pocohantas:
Very annoying nonsense. Banky that has been on this matter for years. Connected with the people and did all the ground work. You would have thought the so called youths have sense and know where to draw the line…alas!

him don chop him own breakfast too.

Na no man's land we dey.