Will the Lion get his share of the kill?
MANY Nigerians are gradually showing concern on how former governor of Lagos State and a “national leader” of the ruling APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will survive the ongoing battle in his party.
This sentiment is coming from the backdrop of the crisis rocking the APC-controlled National Assembly over the emergence of Dr. Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara as leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives, which contradicted their party’s preference.
The public perception of the crisis is that some cabals in the party, particularly the Northerners, in collaboration with some haters of Tinubu from the South, orchestrated the crisis to reduce the influence that the former governor wielded.
The public perception has continue to grow strong despite the media denial and political maneuverings and explanations by the APC that the matter has nothing to do with any individual or that is was targeted at Tinubu.
However, Tinubu’s silence since the crisis began was interpreted to mean a lot and his absence from the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) meetings held in Abuja last week, did not help matters either as the public continue to hold that some cabal “wanted Tinubu out at all cost” To worsen the situation, one of the die-hard supporters of Saraki, Senator Dino Melaye’s allegation that Tinubu is plotting to have him removed from the Senate for supporting the Senate president further strengthen the public negative perception about the matter.
Curiously there has been no roar from the den of the Lion of Bourdillon to confirm, deny or correct some of these public perceptions. Optimists are however of the opinion that the colour of the much-expected cabinet of the Buhari administration is the only way to confirm whether the Lion has been denied of his share which his supporters argue should commensurate with the size of his contributions to the hunt that produced the kill. Time will tell.
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Mr Tinubu should see his share of the kill in the context of enhancement of democracy. He worked hard to see that Nigerians could freely choose their leaders. He should also allow this to prevail at the party level, and indeed the National Assembly. Only then can no one contest the share of the kill with him and his place in history guaranteed. May God bless Nigeria.
Your suggestion would make sense if our politicians went into politics for altruistic reasons. Of course, you know that’s not the case.
what kill, what f****** kill, what Lion ? this writer should use his energy and time to worry about the fate and lives of over 170 million Nigerians, not using siily language of “kills & Lions” . and let stop parading our country as a naked giant, these politicians all over the country have had more than their fair share of the wealth of this nation to the detriment of all our people. Nigeria should not be a piece of meat to be cut up, and devour by callous, greed people/politicians.
He is telling you about power play here. Okay? Or is there any other way to describe it? Let us not be sentimental please.
The guy did not do literature in English during his secondary school days
Nigeria is not an antelope that should be haunted down by hungry lions. I thought Nigeria is an elephant that intimidates lions.
It is not about word abrevation, it about your inability to understand a simple idiomatic expression.
Your own statement stands as an indictment to your penchant to lecture others on what you don’t know.
go bak to school and re write ur WASC
You can’t even spell ‘back’ correctly yet you have the effrontery to correct another persons grammar.
okay, I do not need to rewrite WASCE, it would be a lot easier for you and I , if I just write what I meant out to you in Pidgin-English or Yoruba, right ?
The lion himself saw this coming, when soon after the APC Presidential primaries he nominated himself as the vice presidential candidate for the APC. But Nigerians screamed that APC is about to float a muslim – muslim party and therafter islamize Nigeria. The Lion withdrew and nominated Prof. Osinbajo. But Nigerians should look out for Part 2 of this film. Also, a major characteristic of the Lion is that it attacks a prey only after seeing it for the second time.
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When Dr. Femi Aribisala wrote sometime ago that the end of Ahmed Bola Tinubu is near, many did not take him serious and called him names. The saying that a man is the architect of his own failure is never far from the truth. There is a limit to which a man can push his luck. Whenever it is going well for a man, there are many out there who are envy him, and would always want to bring him down at all cost. Tinubu, we all know, contributed immensely to the victory of APC at the last general election. He played a major role to the enthronement of Buhari as the President of Nigeria, and he single handedly nominated Prof. Osibanjo as the vice president. He did not stop there. he also installed Akinwumi Ambode as the governor of Lagos state. As a responsible man, he should have stopped and watched before leaping again. But he took his luck too far by trying to manipulate who becomes who at the NASS. When all these things were going on, the north was watching with kin interest, and it was decided by the north that it is high time they stopped him or else he will be lord over everybody, including Buhari, if he (Tinubu) is allowed to plant his cohorts at strategic offies at the federal level. Tinubu would have become one of the greatest politicians Nigerian has ever produced if he had stopped at the election of Buhari, Osibanjo and Ambode. At this point, no man would have surpassed his efforts in enthroning democracy. But by taking a step further by trying to control the legislators was his undoing. It is not too late for him to redress the already damaged situation. He can only do that by calling his supporters to order and giving his support to Saraki and Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of House of Representatives respectively.
excellent comment.
We will review and take appropriate action.