AMBODE: A Tinubu's war Trophy |
Ironically, the renewed smear campaign targeted at Tinubu, following his phenomenal role in the political re-engineering project that produced president-elect Muhammadu Buhari, is a blotch on the campaigners themselves. The timing of the obviously orchestrated hate business suggests that an extreme form of denialism consumes the operators. It is an essentially irrational response to realities that can’t be denied, which are that power has changed hands in the country and Tinubu can’t be discredited by demonization for significantly helping to bring about the CHANGE. This approach is unproductive and useless in the eyes of a discerning public. It is an old trick, and its promoters are obviously ignorant of the wisdom that the best trick is to avoid obsolete tricks.
The re-launched campaign of calumny against Tinubu may be more properly situated in the context of oppositional vacuity, whether encouraged by insiders or outsiders. Such is devoid of creativity but merely reeks of spite and malice, which could be the hallmark of the hooded promoters of the failed media plot.
The beauty of the mega force forged by an unlikely merger of major parties opposed to the PDP was not immediately clear, and the construction was expected to collapse. At a critical stage, Tinubu demonstrated impressive selflessness by playing down his ambition so that the new party could present more politically correct election candidates. Those who continue looking for a crevice in his armour are playing blind to this supremely sacrificial factor in the APC’s victory, Tinubu selflessly yield his own interest is in the overriding interest of the party, and by implication, the higher interest of the country.
How Tinubu was able to sell his vision of a mega opposition party unlimited by ethnicity, religion or region must be a subject of wonder in a country where diversity is often exploited for narrow political and unpatriotic advantages. The tsunami is a reflection of the man’s pan-Nigerian imagination and has the potential to improve the country. No one can take that away from Tinubu.
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By the time he was elected governor of Lagos State in 1999, Tinubu was well positioned to unveil his roadmap for good governance in what is known as the Centre of Excellence. The former federal capital witnessed a positive redefinition during his two terms, which ended in 2007. It is to Tinubu’s credit that his successor, Babatunde Fashola, whom he solely backed for governorship when nobody wanted that political greenhorn, has taken the megacity to a higher developmental level based on plans that were drawn up in Tinubu’s visionary period in office. The demonstrable progress inspired by Tinubu is expected to continue under the governor-elect Akinwunmi Ambode who will govern on the APC platform. To his credit, the entire South-west except, Ondo and Ekiti states, are under the firm control of the progressives. Ekiti fell to the conservatives because of the guile of the outvoted APC governor who wasted the efforts, toil and resources of Asiwaju that brought him to power, ab initio.
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The APC tsunami may be regarded as the icing on the cake for Tinubu who turned 63 in the same month that change came. Buhari said at the Seventh Bola Tinubu Colloquium to mark the birthday: “I have great respect for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; he does not consider himself; he is a selfless person who made a lot of sacrifice and commitment to ensure the merger was successful.”
While Tinubu continues to grow from a senator to governor and to architect of return to of South-west and Nigeria into the hands of the progressives to his now elderstatesman status, his envious traducers are out of circu frustration groaning under suffocating indignation and malice. Ride on Tinubu!
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