2019 ELECTION: SOUTH WEST APC PLANNING TO REPLACE BUHARI WITH TINUBU – DELE MOMODU
2019 ELECTION: SOUTH WEST APC PLANNING TO REPLACE BUHARI WITH
TINUBU – DELE MOMODU
Publisher of the Ovation Magazine and
former Presidential aspirant, Dele Momodu has given interpretations to recent
comment by an All Progressives Congress chieftain, chief Bisi Akande.
Akande during a meeting of the South
West leaders of the ruling party had made it clear that there was no automatic
ticket for President Muhammadu Buhari.
Reacting to the matter in a long
article he shared on social media yesterday, Momodu pointed out that Yoruba
leaders are preparing a former governor of Lagos State and national leader of
the APC, Asiwaju Bolaji Tinubu for presidency come 2019.
He said the decision is borne out of
frustration, adding that the Yoruba leadership will no longer support any other
tribe for presidency.
Part of his article reads, “What Baba
Akande has not said is simply that the days when the Presidency would be
voluntarily zoned to exclude most sections of the country in favour of another
section, whether the candidate presented and supported by the people is competent
or useless, are over.
“The truth is zoning never worked
anyway, as some Presidential candidates left their original parties for other
parties in defiance of the zoning formula of their own party.
“Without mincing words, it is obvious
that the Yoruba leadership has decided it would no longer support other tribes,
zones or regions to attain to power to the exclusion of their tribe.
“They would rather work hard, reach
out, and join hands with like minds to get power.
“Their decision is borne out of the
acute frustration and disappointment that makes them feel cheated about the
Nigerian configuration which does not throw up the best but regularly favours
the dregs of society who have only contributed to drawing Nigeria backward, in
most cases.
“The campaign has probably started in
earnest, culminating in the search for a Yoruba Presidency.
“Though the Governor of Ekiti State,
Dr Peter Ayodele Fayose has controversially but ceremoniously thrown his hat into
the ring, it is the fact that the capo di tutti capi, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu, may be warming up for his turn to take a major shot at the race of his
life that is most significant.
“Mark my words. One of the greatest
political strategists in Nigeria, Tinubu is tired of being a kingmaker and he
would rather be the king.
“Indeed, that has always been his
ambition but this has been largely curtailed by circumstances.
“Like many of those who supported
Major General Muhammadu Buhari to attain power, after so many attempts, the
former Senator and former Governor of Lagos State, feels he’s not gotten the
respect and relevance he deserves for his monumental effort. Accordingly, he
seems determined to make a personal push.
“Apart from the virtues of Baba
Akande that I have enumerated above, a lesser known one is his deep sense of
loyalty.”
