Why Threathen Bola Tinubu?

When recently the Action Congress raised an alarm that the life of its leader  Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was being threatened and that there were also plans by the  PDP led federal government to frame him under spurious charges in order to scuttle  his determination to join other progressive forces to drive away the PDP at the next  elections, many Nigerians were shocked and the question on the mind of all was “What  has Tinubu done to warrant his being terminated?”

If a good number of Nigerians were surprised at the disclosure, I was not surprised  or taken aback because such intention is in the true colour of the Peoples  Destroyers Party called PDP.

Most importantly, it wasn’t the first time the PDP would embark on such heinous  plans in order to continuously hang on to power. To the PDP, the party to beat is  the Action Congress of Nigeria while the party is also seen as the only threat to  its scandalous hold on power hence the need to hack down its leaders.

The threat on Tinubu is a repeat of the events of 2007 when the ruling party under  the Presidency of the self-styled wizard of Owu, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, unleashed  the EFCC and other related agencies on opposition parties and their leaders.

Lest we forget Obasanjo openly convicted aspirants not loyal to him in the PDP at  political rallies before they were picked up by the EFCC while some were never  guests of the EFCC.

Ask Governor Olusegun Mimiko and his Rivers State counterpart Governor Rotimi  Amaechi.

What Obasanjo fraudulently deprived Mimiko and Amaechi of, the courts of the land  restored through courageous pronouncements. The rate at which PDP’s concocted  victories were thrown into the dustbins left no one in doubt that justice had at   last been done.

Obasanjo, apart from victimizing opposition leaders, in fact singled out Action  Congress leaders for special extinction.

Like what Asiwaju Tinubu is facing now, he along with other Action Congress leaders  had a raw deal in the hands of the Obasanjo led PDP.

To Baba Iyabo and his estranged crony Olabode George K.P. (Kirikiri Prisoner) the  election was a matter of do or die.

The do or die agenda unfolded by Obasanjo in 2007 has now become an adopted PDP  manifesto.

Obasanjo had embarked upon a tortuous campaign tour of Lagos State using state owned  helicopter three days to the election. Yet,  the exercise was not only futile but a  failure and a  shame to Baba Iyabo while to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu it was victory  and a salute to courage, perseverance and his political dexterity and organisation  which left PDP crawling like a spineless crocodile at the polls.

The latest move against Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu by the Jonathan-led PDP Federal  Government should not come as a surprise to all well-meaning Nigerians because in  Nigeria’s political mathematics, Umaru Yar’Adua plus Goodluck Jonathan was  undoubtedly Olusegun Obasanjo’s third term agenda.  After the untimely exit of  Yar’Adua the equation has now changed to Goodluck Jonathan+Namadi Sambo= Olusegun  Obasanjo’s agenda.

That Obasanjo deliberately imposed a sick Yar’Adua on Nigeria in order to clear the  way for Jonathan had never been in doubt and the consequence of that unpatriotic  action of Balogun Owu is the current political gloom hanging over the country.

Jonathan, his godfather and the PDP should be careful and ensure that nothing must  happen to Asiwaju Tinubu, as the man represents the conscience of all oppressed and  down trodden Nigerians who pray daily to Almighty God to unchain them from the  stranglehold and shackles of the demonic PDP.

Despite PDP’s claim to power, it is now clear that the so-called power is nothing  but the enthronement of fraud, destruction of our economy and enthronement of  hunger, nationwide blackout, violence, roguery, business closures and collapse of  the productive sector of the economy, massive unemployment, and the unparalleled  suppression, oppression and humiliation of the Nigerian people, ethnic and religious  violence, squalor and political tension.

The attitude of the PDP-controlled Federal Government to Asiwaju Tinubu is quite  understandable against the background of its non performance and the successes  recorded by Asiwaju and his successor, Babatunde Raji Fashola in Lagos State.

What the fraudulent party concocted as a national election in 2007 was outrightly  discredited by the late President Umaru Yar’Adua himself who claimed that the  election that brought him to power was flawed.

That apart, PDP’s electoral roguery was extensively exposed by the rulings of  various Election Tribunals and Court of Appeal.

One does not expect the ruling PDP to gracefully look at the leader of the movement  for the revalidation of the stolen mandates by the PDP.    Moreso, when the man was  the same person that denied it of its satanic determination to compulsorily  “capture” Lagos State as if we were in a state of war during the 2003 and 2007  elections.

A man who successfully challenged all the illegalities of  the then President  Obasanjo up to the Supreme Court especially on the seizure of Lagos State Local  Government funds and won all the suits would definitely not be in the good books of  the satanic PDP and its leadership.

As if that wasn’t enough the Jagaban Borgu had since 2003 when he refused to be  cajoled by Obasanjo’s antics that led to the then AD losing all the states it won in  1999 except Lagos State where Asiwaju’s party only beat PDP silly in Lagos State in  2003 but went ahead to repeat the feat in 2007.

Faced with the open electoral robbery perpetrated by the PDP in the 2007 election,  Asiwaju not only mobilised the people but led the battle in the historic move to  regain the stolen mandates.

As a diehard apostle of the immortal Mahatma Ghandi and his dictum of politics  without violence, Asiwaju extensively put Ghandhi’s philosophy in the front burner  by appealing to Action Congress supporters not to resort to violence in the face of  brazen and unwarranted physical attacks by PDP thugs while at the same time  encouraging Action Congress of Nigeria governorship candidates to pursue the  revalidation of their stolen mandates in court.

The wheel of justice they say, is slow but justice did come the way of Action  Congress of Nigeria, putting the PDP to shame and exposing it as a roguish party.

First to fall to the Action Congress of Nigeria, was Edo State, followed by Ekiti  and then Osun states.  Thanks to the fearlessness displayed by the Appeal Court  Judges, with the counterfeit governors running out of the different government  houses through the backdoors with their tails in between their thighs.

In all of these  including Labour  Party challenge of the elections in Ondo State,  Asiwaju not only displayed leadership and courage but continued the campaign for the  enthronement of true and unfettered fiscal federalism and the rule of law across the  length and breadth of this nation. PDP as a party that does not believe in the rule  of law but the rule of the jungle. A party which thrives in electoral robbery and  not  free and fair election would definitely employ criminal  tactics to silence the  opposition, hence the latest  plan on Asiwaju.

With a party that has succeeded in pauperising Nigerians instead of improving their  welfare like the PDP, one does not expect any better reaction to a person like  Asiwaju a born leader, a dyed in the wool democrat and a believer in the  enthronement of one man, one vote and a peaceful, progressive and egalitarian  Nigeria, other than to intimidate and threaten to hound and exterminate him.

While the PDP and its federal controlled government believe in the barrel of the  gun, the use of thugs, uniformed men paid with our taxes to harass the opposition,  Asiwaju and people of like minds in the progressive camp believe in the people, the  courts and the avowed  faultless vision to confront and dismantle all  anti-democratic and retrogressive forces in the land without recourse to violence.

Is it not a shame that a country which prides itself as a giant and leader of Africa  and which also prides itself in enforcing democratic practices in other African  countries and yet cannot guarantee same within its territory. What sense is there in  Nigeria threatening Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast when its own government is not  prepared to tolerate the opposition?

It is better for the PDP to address the numerous problems its government had since  the last 12 years plunged Nigeria into and how it could save itself from electoral  disgrace in the coming election instead of chasing shadows and threatening  opposition leaders.

If Obasanjo’s theory of “politics of do or die” couldn’t silence the opposition,  leaving the PDP disgraced on several fronts, then the party should do a rethink and  chart a new course for itself and  devise methods to patch its thorn umbrella.

Today the PDP is faced with the greatest challenge of its existence as the countdown  to the April elections begins.  That should give it sufficient concern instead of  contemplating the hounding of opposition leaders. The PDP and its leadership needs  be reminded that no man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender  our destiny to.  The only way in which any one can lead us is to restore to us the  belief in our own guidance and not hounding oppressing, suppressing and intimidating  us.

Today, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Jagaban Borgu and Are of Ile-Oluji, has  displayed and continues to display leadership qualities and had by his words, and  actions given meaning to the expression that “there are men, who by their  sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them and lead the activity of the human  race.”

Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu should not be deterred or distracted from the path he has  chosen, to lead the vanguard for the political, economic and social emancipation of  our great nation from the choking and nauseating grip of the oppressive PDP.

Asiwaju’s shadow invokes fear, political palpitation and electoral arthritis for the  PDP and no amount of intimidation should stop him and other progressives from  fighting for the soul of Nigeria and the emancipation of the Nigerian people in  coalition with other progressive and visionary minded Nigerians like him.

Asiwaju has himself continuously affirmed that “Democracy may be a process not an  event but it is a myth to assume any country can develop without democracy.”

Democracy according to him, therefore, “is a desirable ideal to which every country  should aim”.

That precisely must be the aim and goal of all Nigerians if indeed we

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