Beware, no one is indispensable to Tinubu, Momodu warns Akpabio
The Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum has said that there are deeper and more troubling reasons behind the quiet resignation of the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Umar Ganduje.

President of the Forum, Akin Malaolu, in a statement, yesterday, asserted that Ganduje’s exit mirrors the frustration of a growing list of northern political heavyweights who could no longer stomach the suffocating stranglehold of a southern cabal within the ruling party.

He said: “Even as national chairman, reaching President Bola Tinubu was a herculean task. Access was deliberately blocked.”

Malaolu further revealed that Ganduje’s frustration stemmed from a disturbing pattern: a government ruled by proxy, where decisions rarely came from the President directly, but from a coterie of unelected aides and political cronies acting in his stead.

Other decisive factors, Malaolu noted, include the dominance of a southern oligarchy that has hijacked the APC’s power structure. “A close-knit group of Southern elites,” he said, “have wrapped their fingers around the jugular of power, suffocating inclusiveness and equity within the party.”

According to him, Ganduje went on to challenge the narrative from the party’s last convention where Tinubu was crowned as the APC’s sole candidate for the 2027 presidential election.

He said that the former chairman had repeatedly voiced his dismay at the growing public disenchantment with the APC and the Tinubu administration.

MEANWHILE, a veteran journalist and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dele Momodu, has cautioned the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, to tread carefully ahead of the 2027 general elections, warning that nobody is indispensable to Tinubu.

Momodu said this in a post on his Facebook page, yesterday, predicting that internal wrangling would soon hit the ruling APC, saying: “I knew this day would soon come when kata kata would burst within the ruling APC. Many of our political pundits lack a proper understanding of contemporary history.

“How could anyone think Tinubu’s style would ever change after capturing Lagos State unchallenged for 26 years?”

According to him, the speculation over purported Tinubu’s plan to replace Vice President Kashim Shettima is not new, citing the case of former Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode.

Also, while reacting to the recent resignation of Ganduje as National Chairman of the APC, Momodu said more unexpected events would unfold, describing Ganduje as a tragic hero who took bullets for Tinubu.