The National leader of the All progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has flooded internet with his campaign posters, describing his expected incoming presidency as Extra Level, a slight modification of the current APC slogan, Next Level.
Speculations on Tinubu’s presidential ambition has been topics for discussion both online and offline, with many concluding that he is denuding himself by thinking the Presidency cabal will allow him to rule.
Presidential spokesperson Garba Shehu recently insisted that there exists a presidency cabal, who are respectable Nigerians.
The Biafran separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu has in a recent statement said that Tinubu will be rubbished by the Aso Rock cabals, who, according to him, are already propping up Kaduna state governor, Nasir el Rufai, as Buhari replacement, in case Buhari does not contest again. President Buhari, through his spokes men, have repeatedly said he has no third term agenda.
Critics have referred to the recent retirement of the taxman, Babatunde Fowler, whose tenure was not renewed despite his lobbying for it, as targeted at Tinubu. He has since been under probe by his successor.
Fowler is one of the those believed to have been a Tinubu boy.
But Tinubu, despite skepticism about his chances at the presidency, seems upbeat about it. Some believe he may have been relying on “the magic of MC Oluomo to win the elections, since his template seemed to have worked in Kano, Kogi, Osun and Lagos”, a PDP stalwart told this Magazine. “But it will not work for him.”
Together with the posters of Tinubu, there has been a pilgrimage of homage payers to Musliu Adesanya, popularly called MC Oluomo, from heads of transport workers to traditional rulers, fueling speculations that he is the future governor of Lagos state, “the price he may have been promised if he helps his principal to win the presidency”.
Public perception of Tinubu is that of a very corrupt politician who can do anything to buy power and who is being shielded by the anti graft agencies because he is a national leader of the All progressives Congress, APC. Sometime ago, his house played host to Bullion vans carrying money close to election period. The incidence has never been investigated by the government.
