A former
National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George,
has said that the political career of the National Leader, All Progressives
Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is over.
George said
this during a telephone interview with while reacting to the emergence of
Senator Bukola Saraki as the Senate President ahead of Senator Ahmed Lawan, who
was the preferred candidate of Tinubu.
Specifically,
George said Tinubu should start preparing to quit politics as his political
influence has grossly diminished.
The PDP
leader said Nigerians had become fed up with Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande’s
style of politics which he alleged involved imposition of candidates.
He said
having nominated the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun; and the
Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Tinubu should have “taken things easy” but
“Tinubu continued to push his luck too far.”
He said,
“You know I predicted weeks ago that the APC is just a congregation of strange
bedfellows. The most beautiful thing about what has happened is that Bola
Tinubu’s political influence in Nigeria is coming to a sunset and it is about
five minutes to midnight for him.
“If he cannot see this now, then it will be
foolish of him. He brought in the APC national chairman and the vice-president
and he thinks Nigeria belongs to him. So, he thought what he did in Lagos was
what he could replicate at the national level and they have shown him that he
cannot continue to be the lord of the manor.“So, if he is wise, he will slow down. President Muhammadu Buhari, as an army general, has
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