‘They Attack Tinubu Because He Makes End Of PDP Possible’

In recent times, the attacks on the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu have increased.

National leader of the APC Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The analysis on PM News said that it is a straight result of the crucial role he played in ending the 16-year reign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The war of words has become tougher since July 3, when Tinubu was unnecessarily pilloried for not attending the meeting of the APC National Executive Committee in Abuja, aimed to resolve the National Assembly leadership crisis.

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One source said: “There is no doubt that the attacks are being orchestrated by those who have not forgiven Asiwaju for the visionary role he played in bringing about the merger of opposition parties into the APC, which then went ahead to win power at the centre.

“But for Asiwaju’s uncommon vision and extraordinary politics, such a merger could never have been consummated, not to talk of winning power at the centre in less than two years of its registration by INEC.

“Add that to APC’s unprecedented feat of becoming the first party to unseat a ruling party, and you can then begin to understand why those who had their long snouts tucked into the nectar of power under the PDP will never like the APC visioner. Come to think of it, no PDP member or supporter will ever see anything good in Asiwaju” one source said.

Another source said that Tinubu’s unusual success in Nigeria’s politics has also been the reason for rage and hatred focused on him by those who were very comfortable with the status quo, particularly since the beginning of the ongoing political dispensation in 1999.

His words: “Recall that when Obasanjo embarked on his onslaught against the South-west in 2007, only Lagos State under Tinubu survived. But for his survival then, which he then leveraged upon to retake power from the PDP in the region, there would have been no APC today, because the ACN – the key legacy party of the APC – would never have been born.

”The PDP, lacking visioners like Tinubu, never for once imagined that some opposition elements will put their differences aside and opt to work together for higher interests, like it happened in the case of the APC, to unhorse them. That was why, in their moment of power stupor, they boasted that the PDP will rule for 60 years.”

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The source added that but for Tinubu, that forecast of power permanence, boastful as it might have looked to many, would have come to pass.

”It is therefore not strange that the man, Tinubu, is being attacked and blamed for every perceived wrong in Nigeria, in the APC or for allegedly seeking to grab every imaginable post in his party.

”But there is no cause for alarm. Every great man in history has gone through the same motion of being pilloried, being misunderstood or being simply hated for their greatness. It is not about to change with Tinubu, but like it or not, his place in Nigeria’s history is guaranteed. He has earned that and no level of attacks can take it from him.

”Tinubu should take solace in the words of another great man of his time, Albert Einstein, who said: “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

APC national leader became the target of attacks seemingly by those who accuse him of everything happening to the party, specially the crisis rocked by the National Assembly leadership election.

After emergence of Bukola Saraki as Senate President against wishes of the APC, Tinubu pledged not to recognize the newly sworn NASS leadership.

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