“You Have Lost Political Relevance, You Have Sunk” – Tinubu’s Aide Fires Amaechi

By Adesina Soyooye

“While you weep, Jagaban leads with grace, maturity, statesmanship and the mandate of millions. You claim to have denied him your support, yet he swept Rivers State. The eagle doesn’t lose sleep over the noise of chickens”

The Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on New Media, Olabamji Enitan Jowosimi, has descended very heavily on a former two-term Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi over his comments on Tinubu’s incapacity to lead Nigeria.

Amaechi, who was also Nigeria’s Minister for Transportation for eight years under former President Muhammadu Buhari, had said at a lecture in his honour, in Abuja, on Saturday to mark his 60th Birthday that Tinubu lacks the capacity to lead Nigeria.

He revealed that it was because of his conviction that Tinubu has no such capacity that he told the President, to his face, that he would neither work with him, campaign for him, nor vote for him. He more than hinted that Tinubu’s type hardly care for the people, but only interested in their pockets. Amaechi, also, said he was with the grand opposition to sweep the President out of office in 2027, and was confident it would work.

Buy in a swift and strongly-worded reaction to Amaechi’s hard comments against Tinubu, Jowosimi dismissed Amaechi as irrelevant in the politics of Rivers State and Nigeria. He, also,  dismissed Amaechi as a “self-anointed candidate” a reference to some talks in the months leading to the Presidential Primary that Buhari had anointed him as his successor before it zeroed down to former Senate President, Dr Ahmed Lawan. However, Tinubu out-witted them all, picked the ticket and finally became the President.

In his post where he tackled Amaechi, he said of the  birthday lecture: “The desperate gathering of sore losers is no threat to a man born to win.”

Jowosimi mocked Amaechi over his non-relevance in the scheme of things in Rivers State saying that even without his support, President  Tinubu won the Presidential election in Rivers State. He taunted him for his inability to deliver Rivers State to tye APC either as a sitting Governor or as Director General of the Presidential Campaign

The full text of his post reads: “I told Tinubu I was not going to vote for him” – Rotimi Amaechi, the self-acclaimed ‘anointed’  candidate.

“The desperate gathering of sore losers is no threat to a man born to win.

“You withheld your support – yet he swept Rivers State. A State you couldn’t deliver either as a sitting Governor or as DG of the campaign. Physician, heal thyself.

“You didn’t vote for him? Over 8 million Nigerians did. Today, he sits confidently in the Villa as President.

Guess where you sit? In lowly company with co-wailers, crying over spilled political milk.

“And no, let’s not apply BBL – this wasn’t about capacity. It was the bitter pill of a primary loss that your pride couldn’t swallow. A political opportunist with one worn out strategy – Presidential anointing.

“When the oil don’t  drop, your ambition dried up. Defeat became your destiny, and malice became your message.

How poetic?

“Truth is, if anyone should feel slighted, it should be the man who visited you personally – extending a hand to keep the house united. But what did you do? You slammed the door and sulked in the corner.

“No surprises here – Asiwaju knows betrayal like the back of his hand. He’s played this game too long to be ambushed by the antics of desperate neophytes.

“While you weep, Jagaban leads – with grace, maturity, statesmanship, and the mandate of millions.

You claim to have denied him your support, yet, he soars while you sink.

“Make it make sense? It already does.

“The palm tree doesn’t fear the envy of shrubs. The eagle doesn’t lose sleep over the noise of chickens.

“In the end, winners win.

Losers whine.

“Good evening severally…”