By Bisade Ojoye
“One of the qualities of a good leader is the ability to ensure inclusiveness, which Asiwaju did after the primary, ensuring his fellow contenders didn’t feel a sense of loss but made to understand their contributions would still be important to the victory of the APC at the main election”, this was how a Nigerian based in Germany described Tinubu.
He said Tinubu remained a political enigma, a leader that mentored his ‘soldiers’, a builder of sustainable progress, a pathfinder who believes in long term gains in his politics and governance, a loyal politician who stand true to his words which has placed him in a pedestal many in the political arena could not but adore and respect him for me.
Honourable Jide Fashakin who is the Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Germany also said Tinubu as the biggest and most successful politician in the history of Nigeria, describing him as an epitome of what a product of Diaspora can bring home to contribute to the Nigerian nation, having studied and emerged best of his class, worked with multinationals, brought the experience down home and rose to be the treasurer of Mobil Nigeria, and as a successful technocrat, decided not to criticize but contribute to national development. “He ventured into politics, sacrificed his senate presidency ambition for MKO Abiola to emerge as SDP presidential candidate”, he stressed.
Fashakin said after the annulment of the historic 12, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu fought for the reinstatement of the mandate, lost his house, arrested by the military but stood by MKO through the journey before he went on exile while supporting NADECO to ensure the return of democracy.
“He came back to become the governor of Lagos and made it the first financially independent state in NIgeria, sustained opposition and brought back to the progressives, expanded his coast by reaching out to other progressive to form the APC without seeking for any party position or utilizing the party he conceptualized for personal gain for it first 8 years. This is who Asiwaju Tinubu is, a selfless , visionary and progressive leader whose legacy will be golden in the history of Nigerian polity.
“It gladdens to see that the Omoluwabi concept of the Yoruba race is upheld, a 70yrs old man with lots of successes in politics for over 3 decades still according respect to the highest Yoruba sociopolitical body, it makes me proud about our culture and value we placed to elders, Asiwaju still maintaining loyalty to the root that founded AD, a platform that made him governor of Lagos 23 years ago, it is indeed a welcome development”
The APC, Germany Chapter said through objective engagement of Nigerians and building a community that wants the best of the aspiring candidates to lead the country there was a lot to sell about Asiwaju Tinubu, adding that lots of Nigerians in Diaspora on his antecedents, political consistency over the decades and his ability to build a sustainable progress for Nigeria as he did in Lagos. “This is what the progressives in Germany have been doing to ensure we have large support base beyond the shore of our country and ensure we influence our immediate constituencies back home to vote for him and those in Diaspora who are eligible to vote travel home to do so”, Fashakin explained.
He disclosed Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Support Group in Germany (ABATSG) has a well established structure in all the 36 states in Nigeria, coordinated by the support group here in Germany who are mobilizing at the grassroot for Asiwaju Tinubu and that they were providing adequate support for our political machineries to go all out and ensure we work for the victory of our great party come 2023.
“We can’t be lost in finding the best of our comfort away from our father land where our heart belongs. We engage to make everyone see reason to participate in building a Nigeria of our dreams, the future is abound.
The APC is a strategic party, we did party revalidation exercise in February 2021 and utilised this data to drive voters registration, you can see most of the strong holds of the APC has highest registered voters away from the last minutes rush that led to about 7m invalid or incomplete voters, the party is way ahead and positioned to mobilise members to deliver our candidates at the February polls.
He said the factionisation of Afenifere had weakened the institution over time, which had given some assumptions to it leadership but expressed delight to see the real body retaking it place in the eyes of the public and ensuring the real leadership of the institution doing what is right to represent the stand of the Yoruba race. “I pray God, in His Grace will uphold our father and symbol of the Yoruba ancestry, Pa Fasoranti”.
“For the Yoruba, the victory of Asiwaju will be the fulfilment of the June 12 mandate, as Asiwaju is the progressive torch bearer of that mandate denied the Yoruba one of her beloved son to put the nation on the path of progress. We lost with Awolowo in 1963, MKO in 1999, and Asiwaju would fulfill that dream and his logo is a broken chain and put to an end to the 30yrs successive denial of the best of us in the Yoruba race to lead Nigeria, it would be a dream come through!
The respect from our other brothers in other tribes about the kind of politics the Yoruba is known for, how we were the most successful region during regional government by innovation and education. We have always had the product to lead Nigeria right. Asiwaju has learned from history and this time put everything together within the Yoruba and across the Niger and up South which will, by the grace of God grant him victory and bring back to the West honour of the Awolowo developmental political philosophy.
Fashakin said he was confident of Tinubu’s victory because according to him within the party, Asiwaju had ensured the primary didn’t break the party, his deep consultations to pick his running mate didn’t led to disarray of the party. “The president is standing with him and the APC is going to the field united. On the other hand, the opposition is going to the election highly polarised, Obi has taken about 35% of PDP votes, the Wike camp continues to break what is left of the PDP and doesn’t seems the Atiku camp wants to unify the party by allowing the grievances from the primary lasting this long which was what APC managed brilliantly by Asiwaju extending hand of sportsmanship to all co contenders. By the grace of God, the mandate of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu shall be fulfilled in February 2023”, he emphasized.
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