What is currently happening in Anambra, Rivers, Kaduna, Benue, and Edo should make you appreciate Bola Tinubu.
I did not say you should like him. I said appreciate him. Big difference. You can appreciate who you don’t like. You can work with who you don’t like. Liking is an emotion. Emotions are fleeting.
Separate yourself into three. Temporarily put aside your ego and your emotions. Then, embrace your logical side. Logic is stable. 2+2 will forever equal 4.
A man who can leave power as Governor in Lagos State in 2007, and seventeen years later still has the loyalties of the incumbent Governor of Lagos and ALL his successors, including Ambode, is a man who knows how to manage men, relationships, and resources.
Not only did he succeed with hegemony in Lagos, but he extended his reach to every state in the Southwest and, in recent times, lost only Oyo and Osun. Even at that, he has good intra-party relations with Oyo.
Obi handed over to Obiano, and they quarrelled within a month. Wike and Fubara lasted only three months. El-Rufai and Uba Sani went sour after seven months. Today, even El-Rufai’s children are insulting Uba Sani. Alia and Akume did not even get up to six months. Obaseki and Oshiomhole lasted two years.
In Nigeria, ONLY Kwankwaso has been able to replicate the Tinubu magic. So far. I have to add that.
You may not like Tinubu. You may even resent the Yorubas. But you must admit that the Yorubas have used their cultural values of respect for age and authority to excellent effect in creating political stability in the Southwest. And where there is political stability, financial prosperity will follow as day follows night. The rest of us can learn, unlearn and relearn from them.
The Yoruba respect their elders even when they don’t like them, because they have the ability to separate their ego and emotions from their logic and obey the Omoluabi ethos of their culture, which guarantees their future. Some people see that and call them sycophants. To them, humility is stupidity.
In Yoruba land, care goes down from the elders to the younger ones, and respect goes up from the younger ones to the elders. And that preserves their societal values.
Am I lying?
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