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| Bola Tinubu & Muhammadu Buhari. |
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Bola Tinubu’s penchant for always hitting at former President Olusegun Obasanjo
at every given opportunity is to say the least, laughable. Honestly and this is
without prejudice, there are certain topics Tinubu is not qualified to speak on
and one of such is corruption. Definitely not in this life!
The
Yoruba say, “Ti oju akata ba l’ewo, ko gba enu ediye”, meaning it is not in the
place of the chicken to point out the swelling/redness in the eye of the fox.
They do not belong to the same family and would never roll together. The
chicken is thus expected to apply wisdom and know its place, because in the
animal kingdom, the fox is a senior citizen and by all standards.
Tinubu’s
recent grandstanding at a rally of the APC, calling Obasanjo names in the wake
of his latest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari is befuddling. Tinubu, call
Obasanjo a thief and grandfather of corruption? Chai, Nigeria is truly dead and
merely waiting to be lowered into the mother earth.
A
man so rich yet has no identifiable source of livelihood; a man who literally
owns almost half of Lagos and yet, none can be traced to him; a man who owns
businesses that almost the entire universe knows are his but are not tied to
him in any form or shape?
Talk
about Alpha Beta and you won’t find him there. Raise the matter of The Nation
and he is not anywhere close or is it TV Continental? The handlers would simply
ask you to verify from CAC and see if he has anything to do with them.
Yet,
this same individual, who is leading the campaign of Mr. Integrity, flies
Private Jets that are his. Nobody knows of any employing industry that is his
and he has been in and within the corridors of power since 1999 – unbroken –
and he thinks he is qualified to dis Obasanjo? How?
You
don’t have to like him, but it only takes a few sensible individuals to know
that Tinubu and Obasanjo aren’t mates – not in terms of age but also of
integrity and decent name-recognition. And when I say sensible folks, I'm not
talking about people, who deify him because they think he and not God made
them.
But
when a Tinubu with unbridled greed and blind aspiration mounts the soap box to
talk about corruption, progressivism and a new Nigeria, you certainly do not
need a Pastor Adeboye or TB Joshua to tell you that a society that glorifies
his ilk cannot progress. That’s impossibility plus cannot!
Another
saying in Yoruba asserts that the scrotal sacks of two individuals could weigh
equally, they certainly boast different strengths. Epon le to’ra won, awo e yi
ju’ra won lo.
Call
him whatever name you choose, Obasanjo, in spite of his palpable foibles and
attitudinal inadequacies, stands in a far more decent place than their Tinubu
of the universe and in all respects.
You
can now argue with your keypads, all ye e-rats!
Olawale Olaleye writes
for ThisDay Newspapers.
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