“It is difficult, if not impossible, to stop Bola Tinubu from being President in 2023. Only God can stop him.”
By Charles Igbo
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Igbokwe, has said that without Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, President Muhammadu Buhari couldn’t have become the President of Nigeria in 2015.
Igbokwe is an aide of the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and a former Publicity Secretary of the APC, Lagos.
Igbokwe made these assertions in a write-up in the wake of the #EndSARS protests where he asked the Igbo to keep off “a problem that was not theirs”, and exonerated them from the unbelievable destruction in Lagos.
For three consecutive times, spanning 12 years, Igbokwe recounted, President Buhari tried and failed, until Tinubu threw his weight behind him, and gave him the Presidency.
But Igbokwe regretted that a number of people have been trying to, unsuccessfully, put a wage between Buhari and Tinubu out of fear for Tinubu’s capacity, and reach, and bridge-building ability, coupled with the fear that Tinubu could become the President in 2023.
Igbokwe: “The hatred for Tinubu is so deep that if their wives fail to become pregnant, it is Tinubu.”
But Igbokwe insisted that if it is because of 2023, stopping a Tinubu Presidency is difficult if not impossible because: “While others burnt bridges, he built them, and has developed an unassailable net work in the 36 states of the Federation. Only God can stop him.”
His words:
“Igbo in Lagos do not posses the character and the courage to invade His Royal Majesty OBA Akiolu’s Palace in Lagos Island, TVC, LTV, CHANNELS TV, ORIENTAL HOTEL, GTB, BRT, NATION etc.
“My people will say in an adage that : ‘It is rat inside the house that will tell the rat outside the house that there is something in the house.’
“We have to look inside. I have been in Lagos enough and deeply too close to Asiwaju to know all his enemies in Lagos and Yoruba Nation, and it is political.
“Every PDP member in the South West do not like Asiwaju until they entered AD, AC , ACN and APC.
I was the spoke person of our party for close to 14 yrs and I know what Iam talking about.
“They see Asiwaju as the dominator of the environment and armor bearer of South West politics. They put all their political failures on the doorsteps of Asiawaju BAT.
“If it rains heavily it is Asiwaju that caused it. If there is thunderstorms it is Asiwaju that caused it. If their businesses fail it is Asiwaju that caused it. If their wives cannot get pregnant it is Asiwaju that caused it etc. Success breads envy.
“As you are going up, some people are going down and those going down will not like those going up.
“The political hate for Asiwaju BAT has no boundary even in Nigeria. It goes beyond Nigeria. The PDP Nigeria knows it was Asiwaju that defeated them not President BUHARI.
PMB came in 2003 and did not win, PMB came in 2007 and did not win, PMB came in 2011 and did not win until ASIWAJU’s political sagacity, creativity, and strategy pushed South West ACN to form alliance with CPC, ANPP, and some APGA members to give birth APC. This is root cause of this hate.
“If you are a deep political thinker with great eyes, if you follow political events like I do everyday, if you are a good student of politics and if you have third eyes, you will know at once that Asiwaju BAT has built an intimidating,formidable and unputdownable political networks across Nigeria to the extent that it is difficult now, if not impossible, for anybody to stop him from becoming the President of Nigeria in 2023, all things considered.
“Only God can stop him and this I know very well. The strategic ,well coordinated, clinical attacks on his interests in Lagos is well planned , well structured and clinically delivered to stop him in 2023 at all cost. But will it stop him? No sir!!!
“Asiwaju is not the only Governor that ruled Nigeria from 1999 to 2007. Where are other 35 governors, and why are they not trending like Asiwaju after 13yrs out of power? You cannot stop an idea whose time has come. You cannot cover the sun with bare hands.
“While they are busy burning bridges across Nigeria, Asiwaju BAT has been building bridges across Nigeria since 1999, East, West, North or South. As I speak to you now he has formidable and intimidating networks and groups across the 36 States in Nigeria including Abuja. This is reason they started the war against him.”
Even though Tinubu has not, publicly, expressed interest in the Presidency in 2023, it is common knowledge that many groups are already working for his interest across the country.
Meanwhile, another Yoruba, Pastor Tunde Bakare, insists that he has been assured he would succeed Buhari in 2023. Bakere was Buhari’s running mate in 2011.
But the South-east insists that for justice and equality, the Presidency should come from the zone, being the only zone which has not produced a President.
