1. He is American trained
southern Nigerian politician, and another Yoruba leader
2. He is an adopted child or the offspring of a
mentally deranged mother
3. His political
career began in 1992 as a senator representing the Lagos West constituency in
the short-lived Nigerian Third
Republic
4. Tinubu became a
founding member of the pro-democracy National
Democratic Coalition (NADECO) in 1993
5. He went into
exile in 1994 and returned to the country in 1998 after the death of military
dictator Sani Abacha
6. He stood for the
position of Executive Governor of Lagos State on the Alliance for
Democracy (AD) ticket under
the leadership Abraham Adesanya
and Ayo
Adebanjo and was elected .
7. Tinubu won
re-election to office as Governor in April 2003 when all other states in the southwest
fell to the People's
Democratic Party with the encroachment powerful of the then
President Obasanjo.
8. Tinubu refused
to take Obasanjo instruction on the creation of new Local governments this led
to the grudge between the two consequently Obasanjo stops the payment of
Federal Allocation to him, being a brilliant accountant
9. Tinubu ran Lagos
state just on State Internal Generated Revenue for four years.
He cut Obasanjo
to size when he was all out to demystify
him
10. He defied the odds, many times too many. He
has single-handedly put the Obasanjo-led PDP into shame in Lagos
11. Tinubu is
married to Oluremi Tinubu, the
current Senator of central Lagos State
12. His mother, Abibatu Mogaji died on June 15, 2013 at the age
of 9
13. He was Accounting major at College, and he
did serve in Mobil, as treasurer.
My point here is that Tinubu the Asiwaju of Lagos and by extension Asiwaju
of Yoruba Land may jolly when have his eyes set on the same prize and he will
be a formidable candidate for the honor as well. But for him and what he stood
for in Lagos State and Nigeria, I would argue that Awolowo’s legacies and myth
would have been seriously put in reverse, if not somewhat dented or damaged by
Obasanjo. I concede that it is really difficult for Obasanjo or any Yoruba
Leader to want to obliterate Awolowo from our hearts and consciousness without
damaging themselves beyond repairs, in doing so, as Baba Iyabo has found o.
Being a Nigeria Politician he is as well hanged
with a lot of corruption cases, but none as proven to be right, in as much I wouldn’t
want my sentiment to set in , but Tinubu is a true hero and smart fellow.
This piece is compiled and written by Adewuyi
Ayodeji.
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