Yomi Lawal
Make no mistake, Tinubu is revered by many people who reside in the South West. He is a god on the streets of Lagos and the lord and king of violent thugs who call him Jagaban and “baba wa”. The half-educated amongst this local cult followership say he has “political sagacity,” and thus they abandoned living in 2020 and built a fool’s paradise in 2023. Tshirts they printed and checkers moves they made in their delusion that their bedfellows had integrity and we the people totally stupid.
In physics, Einstein theory of special relativity says the faster you approach the speed of light as you travel, the heavier that moving body becomes. It would be nice to travel at the speed of light, I could simply be in Nigeria and tell someone in the US “see you in a minute” and fiam! I would materialize there. Such is the foolishness of the Asiwaju 2023 camp, senselessness packaged as progressive politics, idiocy coloured as political tactics.
When you approach the speed of light, your speed takes a back seat in terms of what is more important. The regular light around you -which are harmless to you during normal speed- begin to turn to dangerous radioactive gamma rays. Your field of vision is totally narrowed, you can only see what’s in front of you. You become blind to anything not directly in front of you. By now, I know you know the risk of an accident becomes amplified by magnitudes at such speeds.
Such is the calamity that befalls fools driving at breakneck speeds with tunnel vision. Whilst this is not a physics lesson, let’s just say daddy wa ti lazdent.
In all the political sagacity of our thug-user emeritus, he consistently failed to take into account Buhari’s greed. Buhari that is busy fighting jihad will now handover government to someone like Tinubu? For where? Tinubu’s greed, however, ensured his blindness to that fact. The sycophantic noises from his offline and online thugs sealed his crash.
It takes a fool to be called “one of the leaders” of APC by Buhari shortly after stealing an election in 2015, and then be invited to Asorock with the tag “national leader” few hours to 2019 election to curry his favour. Àfònjá fell for it.., again!
What is “national leader?” It is a title for an exalted useless position reserved for greedy idiots as can be seen.
In his greed, he exalted himself above his local level. He had been warned that he plays primitive politics despite all his education. The herder that warned him has obviously been proved right. Fool me once, it’s ok; fool me twice then I’m truly a fool. Tinubu has let greed do him in.
It takes a fool to fight for power and handover that power to a man who was desperate for power in 1983 that he used guns to steal it, and when his hope of getting back the power in 2011 faded, the thief openly wept!. How then does any smart man spend his time and resources to help enthrone such a dangerous demon? Not only did he do it once, but he also did it again in 2019 after Buhari “je ju e” the moment he was sworn-in in 2015. Oh, greed! Greed is a deadly sin.
Oshiomole became the virus with which Tinubu contracted his own political COVID-19. Oshiomoles greed to command and control who becomes the next governor in Edo state resulted in a smarter Obaseki making use of ordinary ward chairman to pull his membership at the ward level and suspending him as national chairman. The fallout is Tinubu who -again- foolishly joined himself at the hip to Oshiomole has found himself thrown out of the party with which he thought would be his launchpad for his 2023 power grab.
That is why I call him Àfònjá-afófun, and he clearly is. For this 2023, he kept quiet as Buhari used state resources for genocide in the middle belt. With his greed – which propelled him to politically travel at warp speed and made him blind to his own stupidity-, Tinubu had destroyed the very people who could have had his back as his protege. For 2023, he went to war against himself as an autoimmune disease would to the body.
The list is long, Fashola, Ambode, Aregbe, Fayemi, Osinbajo etc. Any Yoruba man that appeared to want to shine or strike out on his own path, Afonja waged wars against them. When he got tired of fighting these formidable educated people, he resorted to courting illiterates like McOluomo; barely literates like those he filled the Lagos house of assembly with and stark illiterates like his infamous thugs. He was content being a leader in the midst of miscreants who few nairas can control.
Pride they say goeth before a fall. For this Jagaban of Borgu however, cows -which he sought at the gates of Pa Fasoranti- goeth before his, perhaps those who gave him the title Jagaban will allow him to become their emir in 2023. The NEC meeting he was allowed to attend in 2018 to fool him into supporting the Buhari who shanked him after swearing-in, he was no longer worthy of attendance of the new one in 2020 where the party was to be hijacked from him as an adult would take candy from a child.
As for his wet-dream for the presidency of Nigeria come 2023 -if Nigeria still exists- Tinubu will certainly either be in EFCC net writing his memoirs or in exile like those he has forced outside the shores. Buhari your adversary has a plan for his Fulanis, he is deluded and sees himself the 3rd Mahdi. You, on the other hand, just another opportunist playing a mob game.
Asiwaju, when next you travel at light speed, don’t do so whilst drunk with personal greed or you will end up again twice publicly disgraced. I Kuku said it in December 2019 that you will never become Nigeria’s president, the blood of the slain in Benue, Aba, Onitsha and Kaduna won’t let you.
Accept my condolences for your presidential ambition and I sincerely hope you have seen the cows you were seeking.
