{"id":737,"date":"2022-05-28T03:19:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T03:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/2023-neither-tinubu-nor-osinbajo-is-fit-punch-newspapers\/"},"modified":"2022-05-28T03:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T03:19:27","slug":"2023-neither-tinubu-nor-osinbajo-is-fit-punch-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"2023: Neither Tinubu nor Osinbajo is fit – Punch Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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punchng.com \u00a9 1971-2020 The Punch newspaper
Tunde Odesola
TOSSED up, Nigeria\u2019s spinning politics is a coin with three sides: head, tail and middle. All three sides came into play on Friday when a photograph taken at the South-West presidential aspirants\u2019 meeting of the All Progressives Congress hit the internet with a twist in the tail.
In the photograph, some of the South-West APC presidential aspirants flashed smiles on their faces but kept bile in their hearts. They held hands out to shake but swords lay hidden within their sleeves. If looks were daggers, many would have been stabbed into shreds.
There was more peace in Ukraine than the peace in the Lagos House venue of the meeting at Marina. There was more love in Sambisa Forest, and more warmth on the ocean floor than the dubious affection displayed as Yoruba political maturity to deceive that all is well.
All is not well in the APC well. The reported refusal of the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, to sit beside APC National Secretary, Otunba Iyiola Omisore, and Osun Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, was a testimony that the water in APC\u2019s well is on the boil.<\/p>\n

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Leading politicians at the fence-mending meeting were the chief convener, former interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, and co-convener, a former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Segun Osoba.
Also at the meeting were the so-called National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; his erstwhile godson, but today\u2019s rallying point for some disgruntled party radicals, Professor Yemi Osinbajo; Omisore, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo; former Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State, former Governor-turned senator, Chief Ibikunle Amosun; Governor Oyetola, Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu; Ogun State Governor, Chief Dapo Abiodun, and an ex-deputy governor, Oyo State, Chief Adeyemo Alake.
An unknown evil genius sympathetic to Tinubu had put his creative mischief to use, twisting a religious tale into the innocuous APC picture, and posted it online, setting the stage for an online war. <\/p>\n

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The evil genius had cropped out other stakeholders of the APC from the picture, leaving out only 13 cross-sectional leaders of the ruling national party. He then placed the APC picture above the timeless painting of the Last Supper involving Jesus Christ and his disciples, drawn by Leonardo da Vinci.
When the picture of the 13 APC leaders appeared online alongside the 13-man painting of Jesus and his 12 disciples, it was captioned, \u201cThe Last Supper.\u201d Subsequently, supporters of Tinubu and those of Osinbajo scrambled for the head and tail of the spinning political coin while some circumspect few made a grab for the middle.
Osinbajo\u2019s supporters, not prepared to tolerate the \u2018betrayal\u2019 tag being pinned on their aspirant, asked: \u201cWho is Jesus in the picture?\u201d Tinubu supporters retorted, \u201cJudas knows himself.\u201d
Preferring the middle side of the coin, however, I thought the best caption to the APC picture was, \u201cA Jesusless Last Supper,\u201d because I didn\u2019t see no Jesus at that supper, nor did I see one Judas. Remember, Judas was the treasurer of Jesus\u2019 ministry. He got 30 shekels of silver. He was a rich man. Only rich people can afford to pay N100m for presidential form.
Contrary to newspaper reports, the aim of the meeting wasn\u2019t to pick a consensus candidate. The aim was to douse the political tension among the presidential sons of Oduduwa.
Baba Akande, a staunch Tinubu supporter, strongly believes that the former Lagos governor will crush the former Lagos commissioner for justice and attorney general in a free and fair presidential primary. Akande feels the campaign of calumny between Tinubu and Osinbajo\u2019s supporters will hurt the eventual APC candidate, hence the need to rein in the warring party supporters.
Despite his obvious frailty, which he alluded to by saying the job of the president doesn\u2019t require strength but brain, Tinubu appears to have wormed his way deeper into the hearts of party leaders across the country with his stipendiary brand of politics even as the catchphrase, \u201cJudas the betrayer,\u201d has caught on among party members.<\/p>\n

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