Clockwise from high left: Awolowo, Akintola, Tinubu and Abiola
By Wale Adedayo
We’ve handed this street earlier than, particularly son of man. And, the writings of some Yoruba on this topic can be making others elsewhere imagine that our persons are overrated when it comes to seeing the opposite aspect of the image. Lots of the destructive feedback, if not all, that I’ve examine Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu have been clearly off mark.
There’s a naive perception amongst many on the market {that a} Saint is someplace within the South-West who’ll bell the cat of Nigeria’s politics. That’s definitely a fallacy. From Pre-independence, First Republic, aborted Third Republic to the present Fourth Republic, we’ve NEVER had ANY Saint amongst us. What we’ve all the time had have been Robin Hoods, who enormously assisted Yorubaland to be nicely forward of others.
Barack Obama and Susan Rise
Many of those writers may very well be forgiven as a result of they’ve NEVER been concerned in politics, belonging to a serious political celebration that may win or has received elections earlier than. They rely upon theories dished out by senior theorists, who know little or no or nothing concerning the political world. Politics, in the actual world, will not be about black and white. There are such a lot of gray areas that many won’t ever perceive until demise until they become involved.
Sure, Nice Awo was a grasp organiser. He constructed two nice political events alongside along with his pals. However not many amongst at present’s theorists would perceive that the month-to-month membership dues of supporters weren’t the funds used to grease the engines of each the Motion Group and Unity Get together of Nigeria. It was a serious cause a few of our leaders have been jailed by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari in 1984.
Sooner or later, and simply as these ones are doing to Tinubu at present, a few of our greatest theorists, who we reward after their deaths, joined Bashorun MKO Abiola to label Chief Obafemi Awolowo a thief throughout the Second Republic. They did the whole lot doable to garbage the outdated man and sought to unearth many issues they claimed he stole. Abiola, who was simply becoming a member of politics by way of the Nationwide Get together of Nigeria on the time was supremely naive sufficient to imagine he knew all of it. The person was the unseen hand behind the failed try to garbage Awo. He failed.
Son of man was additionally a political neophyte in some unspecified time in the future between 2000 and 2009, when as a theorist I used to be behaving nearly like these ones of at present if no more. However trying again at how former US Assistant Secretary of State, Susan Rice, who’s an African American, was used seal Abiola’s destiny, I usually shiver at politics, whether or not native or worldwide.
It’s the identical feeling I all the time have until date about how the primary African American US President, Barak Obama, destroyed Libya and opened the gates of hell for the 1000’s of African souls who’ve perished within the Mediterranean Ocean and the Sahara Desert. Each have been black individuals, who did what they needed to due to what the worldwide politics of Washington demanded.
I don’t imagine Tinubu is completed. It’s my agency perception that he’s on the right track. Sure, there are perceived challenges. However it’s within the face of challenges {that a} man will get stronger. Moreover, is it not time to cease this unholy enterprise of making an attempt to destroy our personal, whereas worse components are elsewhere? Abi, e ti gbagbe wipe nitori have been ita la se nni tile ni?
Cracks will all the time come. Those that betrayed and tousled Nice Awo have been founding members of Motion Group. Judas Iscariot was the closest to Jesus Christ. So, to this Ijebu Ife man of God, there isn’t a large deal in all of the writings you guys/gals have been doing. Sensible politics is method completely different from what you learn in books. A useless try to destroy certainly one of our perfect must be discouraged by real Yoruba little children. You’ll be losers too if that’s achieved.
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