“To attack and surely take it, attack where they do not defend. To defend and surely hold firm, defend where they don’t attack. To defend and surely hold firm, defend where they will attack.”
“Knowing the other and knowing oneself, in one hundred battles no danger. Not knowing the other and knowing oneself, one victory for one loss. Not knowing the other and not knowing oneself in every battle, certain D-E-F-E-A-T!” General Sun Tzu
When you can’t figure it out how to make sense out of nonsense, stop trying! Just keep breathing, sooner or later, It will become clear. ‘Ebora Eko’ [Jagaban of Borgu, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu] was just breathing when ‘Ebora Owu’ [Olusegun Basanjo] was making nonsense of Lagos State as a president. In the build-up of the nonsense, Lagos State Allocation funds were seized by ‘Ebora Owu’ as the president then, despite all the entreaties by ‘Ebora Eko’ Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to ‘Ebora Owu’ General Olusegun Obasanjo to released the said Lagos State seized funds, ‘Ebora Owu’ remain adamant.
Sooner than later, it takes patience, persistence, perseverance and performance for ‘Ebora Eko’, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to rattled ‘Ebora Owu’ General Olusegun Obasanjo in ‘The Forest of a Thousand Daemons’ on February 23rd, 2019 Nigeria’s presidential and national assembly elections!
It was a battle of two ‘Eboras’; ‘Ebora Owu’- General Olusegun Obasanjo and ‘Ebora Eko’ – Jagaban of Borgu, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. ‘Ebora Owu’ is a trained military generalissimo, while ‘Ebora Eko’ is a trained civilian generalissimo.
‘Ebora Eko’, Jagaban of Borgu, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has spread his tentacles to; Lagos, Ekiti, Osun, Edo, Kwara & Ogun States. Jagaban operates in ‘bullion vans’ and not Automated Machine Machine [ATM] withdrawals or cash transfer. ‘Ebora Eko’, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is now the Aurora Australis – The Southern Hemisphere Lights.
He supervised the dismantling of ‘O to ge’ dynasty in Kwara State and consigned it to the dust bin of history. The ‘O to ge’ dynasty that has to hold the Kwara State by its jugular since creation, appointing and determining who becomes who in the polity of the state. This was a clear signal to all. Having supplanted his surrogates in; Osun, Ekiti, Lagos, Kwara, and partially in Ogun States, ‘Ebora Eko’, Bola Ahmed Tinubu ‘fiefdom’ dynasty is now a ‘trail of untamed ‘bullion helicopters’
The dismantling of ‘O to ge’ Saraki dynasty hegemony on Kwara State politics by Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Minister of Information and Culture, Layiwola Mohammed is a feat that has been awaited for long.
How long and how soon will ‘Ebora Eko’ allow wisdom and rule of law to take its curse? In Ibadan, ‘Ebora Eko’ was simply vehemently rebuffed, his expansionist agenda was clipped by Ibadan, who will rightly say, “Ibadan o raye osi, a taka osi danu”. He who pays the piper, dictates the tune, with limitless bullion vans and rice inflow that was witnessed in build up to the election in Lagos, all are courtesy of ‘Ebora Eko’ political investment, definitely the governor-elect, Babajide Sanwo-Olu will and must surely ‘Sanwo-Tinubu’.
‘Ebora Eko’ Jagaban Bola Ahmed Tinubu now have an easy, unhindered and uninterrupted ride in Ekiti, Kwara, Lagos, Osun, Edo, and possibly Ogun States, and the ‘bullion vans’ will now transform to ‘bullion helicopters’! More of these amazing feats and achievements ‘Jagaban’, but remember, this surely not the end of the beginning nor the beginning of the end. But the beginning of the beginning!
And Kaduna State’s Nasir el-Rufai, ‘Get Away’ phenomenon! Against all odds, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai was re-elected. He was a dragon during his tenure as Federal Capital Territory minister. Mallam Nasir el-Rufai threads where others dared. The only governor to nominate Muslim-muslim ticket, yet he ‘Get Away’ with it. Whatever happens during the governorship election in Kaduna State is now history. Mallam Nasir el-Rufai has ’Get Away’ again with another controversial decision.
As Director General, Bureau of Public Enterprises [BPE], Mallam Nasir el-Rufai actions and inactions are unparallel. Mallam Nasir el-Rufai continues to dare where others dared not and ‘Get Away’ with it. Prelude to the governorship, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai boasted, he is not afraid of loosing and even if he lose, a job is already waiting for him in Abuja, and that only his staff are afraid. He dares and ‘Get Away’! No one knows Mallam Nasir el-Rufai’s gauntlet?
And hail Emeka ‘The Thunder’ Ihedioha, the man that single-handedly strike Rochas ‘The Invincible’ Okorocha out the Eastern Heartland Government House, Owerri, Imo State by thunder on March 9th, 2019! Rocha Okorocha invincibility became dumb when Emeka ‘The Thunder’ Ihedioha strike live. From ‘Ihedioha’ to ‘Amadioha ’ the thunderstruck Rochas Okorocha and his erected statues and monuments alongside his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu.
A dramatic end to a fairy tale of ‘invincibility’, coming in the heels of Independent Electoral Commission of Nigeria [INEC] conspicuously omitting Rochas Okorochas name from the lists of senators-elect of Nigeria 9th Assembly.
The Kwakwasiyya Movement ‘Typhoon and Hurricane’ engulfed Kano in an unprecedented election scenario in Nigeria history. It was a ‘Typhoon and Hurricane’ that consumed Abdullahi Ganduje ‘Gandu-Dollars’ in its wake of ‘dust bowl’. These are the lessons that are meant to be learnt in the highest level of politics.
“Winning is great sure, but if you are really going to do something in life; the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time, if you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be champion someday.” – Wilma Rudolph
Winston Churchill, British Statesman, author, and wartime prime minister from 1940 – 1945 and 1951 – 1956 said, “Politics is almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous! In war you can only be killed once but in politics many times. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
Vince Lombardi quipped, “The real glory is being knocked down to your knees and then coming back. That is the real glory. That is the essence of it.”
2019 general elections in Nigeria a real lessons!
Taiwo Lawrence Adeyemi. Research & Data Analyst, PTCIJ. Mobiles: +234.816.950.3218. +234.701.224.8573.
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