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The present trials of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the
colossus of the Southwest is not surprising to
those who have vision. I saw it coming and
that was why over two years ago, precisely on
Tuesday, May 27, 2014, I wrote a back page
op-ed on ThisDay newspaper titled 'From
Battleground to Common Ground' and in that
piece, I said inter alia as follows:
'A comrade is not for what you are for, neither
does he share the same interests as you. A
comrade is simply one who is against what
you are against. In other words, you are bound
by a common enemy.
The All Progressive Congress, is a party
founded on this premise.
Those who are enemies of the President
(Goodluck Jonathan) and the PDP gathered
together to form a party whose foundation is
their common enemy.
They share no ideological connection, neither
are they friends.
In actual fact, they may even
hate each other, only that they hate the
President and the PDP more and are wiling to
temporarily suppress their hatred for each
other in other to gang up against their
common enemy.
In my experience, it is better to have a party
built on common interests than to have one
built on a common enemy.
This is because as
even a political novice will tell you, there are
no permanent friends or permanent enemies
only permanent interests.
Now, if the above is true, what would happen
to a party that is built on a common enemy?
Parties built on this foundation last only as
long as the enemy is in power.
Once their
enemy is no longer in power the party
disintegrates.'
It does not matter if you hate Reno Omokri's
guts, but ask yourself if what I said has not
turned out to be the truth.
In the space of just a month, Bola Tinubu has
been deliberately mystified and treated with
such contempt that even those who he
considered his worst enemies find themselves
feeling sorry for him.
But he should have seen it coming!
The unraveling of Bola Tinubu actually began
on the 3rd of June 2016, when President
Muhammadu Buhari publicly and right in
Tinubu's face told him at a reception the
President held for members of the National
Assembly at the Presidential Villa that the All
Progressive Congress had no such position as
a National Leader.
I know this because a Senator who attended
the function called me almost immediately
after the event and told me about how the hall
descended into almost pin drop silence after
the President made that assertion.
I can assure my readers that President
Muhammadu Buhari would never have made
such a remark prior to the 2015 elections.
But
who needs a piece of toilet paper after it has
done its job!
That remark was the signal that sleeper
agents within the APC were waiting for to
begin the unraveling of the masquerade.
Teaching him a lesson in Ondo state is only
the beginning. Bola Tinubu's comeuppance is
not yet complete in the eyes of his traducers.
And then look at the way he is portrayed in
Professor John Paden's biography of the
president.
Paden portrays Tinubu as a
desperate power monger who kept throwing
himself at Buhari only to be rejected at each
instance. Tinubu, see how low you have fallen!
I do not know why Bola Tinubu is angry at
Paden.
Did he not read that this was an
official biography?
Paden was not there during the horse trading.
The book was written with the cooperation of
President Buhari. The things he wrote about
Tinubu were the accounts he was given by the
President.
So Tinubu should call a spade a spade.
President Buhari merely told the world what
he really thinks of Tinubu.
And look at all the men around President
Buhari who got to where they are on the back
of Tinubu. Has anyone of them come out to
speak in his defense? Where is Vice President
Osinbajo? He can blame Jonathan but cannot
defend his benefactor.
Where is Fashola? He
can come up with excuses for giving Nigerians
darkness but cannot speak up for his oga? Lai
Mohammed is nowhere to be found. Perhaps
he is too busy dressing up masquerades or
looking for a parastatal under him to loan him
some money!
At the end of the day, after all the terrible
things the propaganda wing of APC said and
did to Ayo Fayose and Femi Fani Kayode, who
came to the help of Tinubu but the two men
demonized by the very same propaganda
machinery that Tinubu helped set up.
And as for Tinubu, I cannot imagine why
someone will write a book and insult you in it
and still invite you to the launch and you
agree to go simply because he is a president.
Even worse, they asked you to write a review
for the book and you did! Is this the same
Tinubu that was so mouthy under Jonathan?
Look at how he has become a chihuahua
today.
Lord have mercy!
Tinubu! Your Afonja too much!
Did you not see what ex-President Goodluck
Jonathan did with the so called Leadership
Award.
You do not honour a gathering
designed to reduce you with your presence. As
the late kakanfo MKO Abiola would say 'a
man who allows his head to be used to break
a coconut may not live to eat it'!
Even the well respected Pastor Osinbajo
cannot even publicly come to your defense
and tell the truth of how you helped him
secure his exalted office.
Yet he is the chief
beneficiary of your generosity.
My advise to you, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is this:
a woman who continues to make herself
available to a man that only remembers her
when he needs her services to satisfy his
lustfulness should not be surprised when her
own children deny that she is their mother!
Finally, going forward, before labeling people
like Ayo Fayose and Femi Fani-Kayode as
enemies, remember that it is better to be
insulted with the truth than flattered with a
lie.
Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ
Christian Center in California, author of
Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why
Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation
with Reno Omokri
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