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How Tinubu Has Been Humiliated By Buhari, President’s Men – Fani-Kayode

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BEVERLY HILLS, September 26, (THEWILL) – Following Sunday’s outburst of a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, against the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun over the outcome of the APC governorship primaries in Ondo state, a former Aviation minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has itemised six shots that have been fired at Tinubu by “forces within his party that are even greater than him”.

He identified this “small cabal of power-brokers” carrying out offensive against the former Lagos governor to include: President Muhammadu Buhari, his powerful nephew: Mamman Daura and Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, adding that the Kaduna state Governor, Nasir El Rufai and others are the strategists and enforcers.

The spokesman of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign in 2015 stated this in an article published on Monday, where he bemoaned the humiliation of Tinubu by those whose objective “is to establish a new political order in the south west which is beholden to them alone, to replace Tinubu as the National Leader of the party and to utterly demystify and crush him in order to prepare the ground for the emergence of a new and more compliant Yoruba running mate for either Buhari himself or El Rufai in 2019.”

Part of the article which highlights the six shots reads, “The first was the Senate Presidency affair and the Bukola Saraki matter which saw the defeat and humiliation of Tinubu’s prefered candidate for Senate President.

“The second shot was the Speaker of the House of Representatives affair and the Yakubu Dogara matter which, again, saw the defeat and humiliation of Tinibu’s prefered candidate for the position of Speaker of the House.

“The third was the vital issue of Ministerial appointments in which not one single Ministerial nominee of Tinubu’s was accepted and appointed as a Minister by Buhari.

“Every single person that he nominated from the south west and elsewhere as Minister was rejected and instead the slots were filled by his political adversaries and/or their nominees.

“Many erroneously believe that Mr. Lai Mohammed, who is from Kwara state, was Tinubu’s choice and nominee for Minister of Information but this was not the case.

“The person that he nominated for Minister of Information was not Lai Mohammed but Mr. Dele Alake, his former Commissioner of Information in Lagos state.

“Again he nominated Mr. Wale Edun, his former Commissioner of Finance in Lagos state, for the position of Minister of Finance but this was rejected and Governor Ibikunle Amosu’s candidate, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, got the job instead.

“This went on across the board for every single person that Tinubu nominated and presented for the position of Minister last year and it was a terrible humiliation for him. It was a dirty slap in his face.

“The fourth shot was the James Faleke matter in Kogi state where it was agreed by the real landlords of the APC in the core north that Tinubu must not be allowed to gain a foothold in the north central zone by getting his own Yoruba kinsman and candidate to be elected as governor of that state.

“Hence Faleke was ruthlessly dropped and shabbily treated and another person was selected to be the gubernatorial candidate of that state. It worked, Faleke went to court and sadly he lost. That was the end of the story.

“The fifth shot is the thorough and systematic, though subtle and covert, humiliation and relegation of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, a close associate and political protegee of Tinubu and a spiritual son of the reverred Pastor Enoch Adeboye of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), to not just a spare tyre as Vice President but also to a very flat one.

“Rather than being allowed to participate in the crucial decision-making processes on vital and critical issues of state and governance as any Vice President should, Osinbajo has been kept in the dark about virtually everything and he has little or no power to effect anything.

“When such decions are to be debated, discussed and made the Vice President is never invited into the room and neither is he even aware that there is such a meeting going on.

“Worse still he is constantly being directed to represent the President at official functions all over the country as if he were more his Personal Assistant, Special Advisor or Minister rather than the Vice President of the country. Osinbajo’s crime is simply that he is loyal to Tinubu and he has refused to dump or betray him.

“The sixth and perhaps most devastating shot is the fact that the party machinery has not only been taken away from Tinubu with the effective high-jacking of Odige-Oyegun but that it has also opted to do the bidding of his mortal enemies and to fight him.

“An eloquent testimony to this disturbing fact is the outcome of the Ondo state gubernatorial primaries where Tinubu’s candidate was edged out and cheated of the nomination by the party leadership,” the former minister wrote.

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