It was explosive. (If you've not read it, read it here. I wonder why Fani-Kayode all of a sudden developed a liking for Tinubu. We all know how he has insulted Tinubu in the past. However, Fani-Kayode raised posers.
He said that Tinubu has lost ground since Buhari became President. That is true. The examples he gave prove it like the emergence of the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. I can't totally agree with his position on the sidelining of Faleke because, on legal grounds, Faleke would have had issues being governor because he didn't take part in the party primaries.
Nevertheless, the Ondo state primaries shows that there is fire on Tinubu's political mountain. Whether or not Tinubu's candidate was cheated or lost fairly, its a bad sign for him. It is even worse if he was truly cheated. If he was cheated and Oyegun deliberately refused to cancel the primaries can Fani-Kayode's postulation of a secret cabal haunting Tinubu be said to be true. Even if there is a cabal working against him, can it be the persons mentioned? Can they be working for the northern agenda as Fani-Kayode is trying to portray? This is a poser he has raised.
He also said that the APC will disintegrate into three factions by 2019. He added that the PDP will be new and reinvigorated. That could be mere speculation. He forgot that fences can still be mended. Who thought Rauf Aregbesola and Olagunsoye Oyinlola would be in the same party today? Could Atiku and Obasanjo be in good terms? What about Oshiomole and Osunbor? The list is endless. Politicians have a characteristic of reconciling. APC has survived a lot of doomsday predictions from people including Doyin Okupe and Bukola Saraki (now in the APC). Except Fani-Kayode is saying that there would be no reconciliation. That is unlikely, but it is possible. How sure is Fani-Kayode that the PDP will be reinvigorated by 2019. It is still the same PDP that is trying to end its civil war by dialogue with Ali Modu Sheriff; a man he has stated should not be dialogued with (if you missed it, read it here). If PDP is reinvigorated after the dialogue with Sheriff and possible resolution of the crisis, then Fani-Kayode would be proven wrong again. Notwithstanding the possibility of his being in error in this prediction, it is still a poser.
One point he made which I totally agree with is that Tinubu should not be underrated and pushed too far because of his capacity to do damage to the APC. He has a vast experience in politics. It is only if things continue like this that APC could split (I don't know how many parts though). But the PDP may or may not be reinvigorated in spite of that.
It is hoped however that peace should reign so that the APC, being the ruling party, can govern well. It is also hoped too that the PDP is reinvigorated (and the people we saw before, we can see no more) so that there can be a viable and CREDIBLE alternative to the APC. Tinubu obviously has to reorganize his camp and not discard all that Fani-Kayode has said for he may have spoken the truth given the unfolding events. Are the Jagaban days over?
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