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Wednesday,Jun 30,2010
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Wednesday,Jun 30,2010
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Wednesday,Jun 23,2010
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Thursday,Jun 17,2010
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Thursday,Jun 10,2010
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Thursday,Jun 10,2010
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The Bond Between Tinubu & Fashola
By:
Suage Badey
suage4press@gmail.com
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Contrary to the rumours that were circulating in the newspapers after Barr Babatunde Fashola won the Lagos State 2007 gubernatorial elections (under the Action Congress (AC) platform) that his predecessor Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu would be a thorn in his flesh, dictating and calling the shots irrespective of the incumbent’s feelings and ideas, events have proven them wrong as Asiwaju who saw in Fashola the qualities of good leadership has remained on the sidelines watching with delightful satisfaction that he didn’t go wrong afterall. Fashola’s leadership example has proved Tinubu’s critics and detractors wrong. What we see in Lagos State today is a beehive of democratic norms, and I stand to say that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is the leader of leaders if in many quarters people are praising the good works the Action Congress governors in Edo State and Lagos State . That shows that Tinubu stands out. What many people did not understand or perhaps know but were bent on mischief was that Tinubu is a man of principle and resorts to democratic norms in anything, political business, he does. He believes in the rule of law and abhors the theory and act of godfatherism to a fault.
Buttressing his relationship with Fashola, Asiwaju Tinubu had said it pointblank that his relationship with Fashola is cordial. There is no misunderstanding between Fashola and him. They have been working well with regards to their respective responsibilities in the state and in AC. "I tell you, the unity, solidarity and sense of brotherhood we have been having will be a threat to our party opponents,” Tinubu had said. "What they cannot achieve through the front door, they want to achieve through the back door. If they do not spread bad rumours, false accusations, the rumour peddlers do not earn their daily bread."
I think there should be caution among Nigerians the way many of us go about the political business here. The politics in Nigeria is taking a dimension that could smear our democracy today and tommorrow, if drastic measure is not put in place to checkmate the odious trend of character assassination that has taken the centre stage in the doings of things around us. People turn to be newspapers publishers to unduly smear the image of their political opponents or propagate unending campaigns of bigotry. This is highly counter productive to the ideals of democracy.
Well, what else do I expect from a political foe of the Asiwaju who romances with the Compass newspapers? (An embittered enemy of progress). But he would not achieve more than what we have read. The personality behind the Compass newspapers can go through the length and breadth of his mischievous adventure to tarnish the hard earned image of Tinubu, but one thing he will not be able to do is to come out publicly to engage Asiwaju in any debate whatsoever, needless to say issues that bother on leadership and governance. His crude assessment of this great leader already exposes his lack of understanding of contemporary issues as it relates to governance and leadership. Whether it is in the West or in the East? Records are speaking for Tinubu. Dossiers are there. What we see in Tinubu is a man who does not get cajoled by the bandwagon effect, because he understands that a good seed can be identified from a distance in a multitude of seeds. He is not one of those politicians with deep pockets. He knows that leadership is all about service to the people and not the other way round, taking what belongs to the people. He believes that a man should always live by consistently being conscientious of the things he does for posterity sake rather than lose ones integrity for short term benefits with no political relevance at all.
Imagine that as at today, Lagos standout, whereas in the many states in the West where PDP rules, it is still as if the Owu-generalissimo is still in saddle, because it is still the old order of flagrant disregard for the rule of law. In AC, Tinubu holds swear in his ingredients of governance, transparency and truthfulness in its application to everything he lays his hands on. Anybody can contest this, but what I have said is evidently portrayed in Lagos and Edo States , respectively.
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