{"id":28796,"date":"2014-07-05T18:36:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T17:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=28796"},"modified":"2014-07-05T18:36:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T17:36:49","slug":"history-will-be-on-tinubus-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/history-will-be-on-tinubus-side\/","title":{"rendered":"History Will Be On Tinubu\u2019s Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<em><strong>By Gbenga Olorunpomi<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they<br \/>\ndo not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances<br \/>\nexisting already, given and transmitted from the past\u00a6 Karl Marx*<\/p>\n<p>Good people are hard to come by. The uncomfortable truth is that this world<br \/>\ndespises good people. Human beings have a natural instinct to either<br \/>\nextinguish the spatter of lights that dot the almost tangible darkness<br \/>\naround us, or cover it up. We are quick to kill the better people in our<br \/>\nsociety or to drag them down into the mud with us. We are uncomfortable<br \/>\nwith the notion that some people can be good while we swim in our filth. We<br \/>\nresent the notion of such arrogance. We dont understand it, so we destroy<br \/>\nit.<\/p>\n<p>Abel, Noah, Lot, Jesus, Mohammed. Just a few names of men people either<br \/>\ntried to kill or did kill for the simple fact that they we were better than<br \/>\nthe rest. In Jesus case, we even went as far as to accept the likelihood<br \/>\nof a curse. It didnt matter. All we wanted was for the man to be dead. The<br \/>\nworld hates good guys.<\/p>\n<p>Ill never forget the first time I saw Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the<br \/>\nflesh. It was about 3am and the man had just concluded a round of meetings<br \/>\nand was almost to his last one. I wouldnt have recognized the man because<br \/>\nhe walked so fast for a man his age. It was the bald head and glasses that<br \/>\ngave him away. Here I was, only 26, and missing my bed so desperately. On<br \/>\nthe other hand, Asiwaju Tinubu, then 58, was wide awake and working himself<br \/>\nto the ground. In that singular moment, I felt both shame for myself and<br \/>\ndeep reverence for the Former Senator and Governor. In those five seconds,<br \/>\nI saw the man I wanted to be; hardworking, deft, decisive, agile, alert and<br \/>\nwily. Today, I admire him ten times more than I did that morning, even<br \/>\nthough he has never said a word to me directly nor shaken my hand.<\/p>\n<p>While it would be wrong to completely attribute the attainment of our<br \/>\nfledging but deeply threatened democracy to the efforts of Asiwaju Tinubu<br \/>\nalone, nobody has contributed more to the sustenance of that same democracy<br \/>\nthan he. It is easy to forget how much the man gave himself to the battle<br \/>\nto dislodge the military junta because we are a people in love with<br \/>\namnesia. It is even easier to forget the many juicy temptations thrown at<br \/>\nhim before it became too dangerous for him to remain in Nigeria. It might<br \/>\nbe hard to forget the many times the man took the federal government to<br \/>\ncourt just to ensure the establishment of a true federalism in our country.<br \/>\nHowever, I refuse to allow us forget the role this man has played to ensure<br \/>\nevery Nigerian continues to enjoy his freedom to speech and equal justice.<br \/>\nI will remind us all of the mans one-man resistance to the forces of the<br \/>\nfederal government for years. I will recall to our memory the countless<br \/>\ntimes the man appeared in the corner of his colleagues and mentees whose<br \/>\nelectoral mandates were in jeopardy. He expended time and resources for the<br \/>\nactualization of our peoples electoral wishes in Ondo, Osun and Ekiti. He<br \/>\ndid it with awesome dedication. No one else stood their ground with him. He<br \/>\nwent it alone.<\/p>\n<p>Only recently did Asiwaju begin to get the accolade he truly deserves, the<br \/>\nmost notable being THISDAY pronouncing him their 2013 man of the<br \/>\nyear and<br \/>\ndescribing him as The man who re-built the Nigerian opposition. I<br \/>\nwonder<br \/>\nif people know what it took for that to happened and it is time someone<br \/>\ntold the story.<\/p>\n<p>Barely months into the 2012, Asiwaju Tinubu met up with General Muhammad<br \/>\nBuhari and asked for a fresh start to the talks that were never concluded<br \/>\nin the run-up to the 2011 elections. He shuttled many times between Lagos<br \/>\nand Kaduna to hold meetings with General Buhari in his house and also met<br \/>\nother close political aides. These took place in Abuja, Kaduna and Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>After getting the General on board, it was time to the reach out to other<br \/>\nparty leaders-APGA, ANPP, and the CPC. He also had to convince senior<br \/>\nmembers of his own party, the ACN, on the merits of discarding the party<br \/>\nand taking on a more nationalist outlook. These meetings held late at night<br \/>\nand into the early hours of the morning. Convincing other parties to<br \/>\nsubsume their structure into one party was not easy. But Tinubu didnt stop<br \/>\nthere .He took on the task to help resolve internal crisis within the<br \/>\nCPC\u00a0 and the ANPP. He acted as the glue that stuck all the parts together.<br \/>\nHe pleaded and cajoled to get people to work for the merger. He was driven<br \/>\nby the need to build a virile opposition and a broader national political<br \/>\nplatform that can compete with the ruling PDP.<\/p>\n<p>He took the boldest step of dissolving his party, the ACN into the APC; a<br \/>\nparty that was yet to be registered then. That was in April 2013 when at<br \/>\nthe convention he showed the way. His rousing and moving speech lifted<br \/>\nspirits and set the tone for the sacrifices to be made. He said he could<br \/>\nfeel the storm of positive change coming to Nigeria and he rallied all to<br \/>\nbe part of that movement. He said as difficult as it is to let go of ACN, a<br \/>\nparty all worked to build, but that it was a sacrifice necessary to move<br \/>\nNigeria forward.<\/p>\n<p>Part of his speech that day read thus:<\/p>\n<p>Join me today in voting to move our party into merger with the ANPP, CPC,<br \/>\nother parties and organizations to form the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>I assure you that the place we are going will be your house of political<br \/>\nfulfillment. We shall have a meaningful voice in the APC. The principles of<br \/>\ndemocracy, justice, visionary governance and liberty that shaped the ACN<br \/>\nshall carry over into the APC. The new party will be as welcome a home as<br \/>\nthe ACN. It will just be a bigger house for a larger political family.<\/p>\n<p>It shall be this family that saves Nigeria by bringing to the people the<br \/>\ncreative policies that promote wide prosperity, employment, infrastructural<br \/>\noverhaul, education, health care, civil rights, peace, stability and<br \/>\njustice.<\/p>\n<p>Thus,vote with me to close the historic and noble chapter on the ACN so<br \/>\nthat we can begin a new and bigger book called the APC.<\/p>\n<p>For us this is not a sad ending, it is but the beginning of a great<br \/>\nbeginning. Let us do what is right so that when history writes its account<br \/>\nof this day, it shall write that we lived up to our moral duties by doing<br \/>\nwhat the moment required.<\/p>\n<p>It was Asiwajus tireless work and dexterity that helped to see the party<br \/>\nregistered. When other fake APCs emerged, Tinubu took on the battle to<br \/>\nexpose the trick but also worked the legal system to ensure the party<br \/>\nregistration stood. He spent time, money and invested intellectual<br \/>\nresources. This was while he was recovering from a knee surgery in far away<br \/>\nLondon. He was always in constant touch with his allies like Buhari, Baba<br \/>\nAkande, Yemi Osinbajo, Lawan Shuaibu, Yusuf Alli, Kashim Imam, Muiz Banire<br \/>\nand several then ACN governors. Tinubu did a Yeoman&#8217;s job.<\/p>\n<p>While all this happened, one wonders where the current pretenders scheming<br \/>\nto control the fate of the APC were. Those who never lifted a finger to<br \/>\nhelp the fledging party are suddenly interested in who leads it. They want<br \/>\na share of the spoils where they never pulled a bow in the battle.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, they are possessed with a desire to dictate. When Asiwaju was<br \/>\nbusy trying to convince the PDP governors to join the party, they did no<br \/>\nmore than twiddle their thumbs and wait to see if the move would succeed or<br \/>\nfail. It took a lot of work, persuasion, meetings, all led by Tinubu and<br \/>\nassisted by a few.\u00a0 While this happened, no one accused Tinubu or Buhari<br \/>\nwere hijacking the party. They were working tirelessly and getting results.<br \/>\nOthers like Tom Ikimi and Ali Modu Sheriff hugged the sidelines waiting to<br \/>\nrip from others sweat.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, there have been some sponsored reports and opinions painting<br \/>\nTinubu as dictatorial, lacking internal democracy and so on. One even<br \/>\nlikened him to the Conniving Tortoise, saying he is a serial double-crosser<br \/>\nand untrustworthy. However, all being done to trash his efforts will fail.<br \/>\nHistory will stand up in his corner. Tinubus contributions to the<br \/>\nestablishment of the APC are monumental and without Tinubu, APC could never<br \/>\nhave been a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Those seeking to run it now are welcome to remember this fact. They should<br \/>\nresist the temptation to stick a knife in his back. Humanity has lost too<br \/>\nmany good people already. And according to John F. Kennedy, &#8220;History is a<br \/>\nrelentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the<br \/>\nfuture. 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