Professor Osinbajo
"Let me tell you the simple truth. Tinubu does not own Oriental
Hotels....That is one of the many wicked lies being told against
him....They don't know him. They just hate him. I know him very
well....I mean very well...If he owned Oriental Hotels, all of us will
have one room each for free....he will run it aground within one
year..Three things I know him for, giving, he can give anything, he has
given his all to Nigeria apart from his life....Another is
politics....and another is constructive
argument...I remember how as his commissioner, we use to have hot
argument that often led to quarrel, he hate stooges or incompetent
people. Go and confirm, if you discovered something contrary, bring it
on!"-- Yemi Osinbajo.
Historical personalities like
Tinubu have always been maligned and castigated. Simpletons cannot
contextualize them in terms of their motivations, aspirations and
actions. There is no point engaging them on banal issues they tried to
push in the documentary they are airing against him. No political leader
in Nigeria today that has the record of Tinubu in building a new crop
of leadership for the Yoruba that will last this and the coming
generations. Not a single politician that has contributed to the
political growth and development of Nigeria without gaining anything
from it like Tinubu. In 2011 he brought Ribadu to contest for the
presidency. Again, grooming a leader from the ground zero, when he could
have given it to himself. It is that singular effort that has
positioned Ribadu as a leadership material in this country. He worked to
put together a merger successfully of disparate groups into one
seamless and the strong opposition party you can find anywhere, and ever
in the annals of Nigeria’s history, the All Progressives Congress
(APC). Still in the spirit of national unity, justice and fair-play, he
lends his resources and personal time and effort and political capital
to General Muhammadu Buhari, all with the focus on the bigger picture,
making Nigeria a better place for all of us. To boot, he also drew from
the reservoir of the leaders he built and brought in Prof. Osibanjo, one
of the most competent, politically astute and morally upright Nigerian
to run as Vice-President. If people do not and cannot see all these
positive qualities but are set in their ways to tar him then we are
really in a tragic mess.
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