I want to direct this piece to the Yoruba with a view to enlightening them on whom to cast their votes for in 2023, at least so that unprecedented development will greet the nation as a whole.
In Nigeria, the acclaimed giant of Africa, the 2023 presidential election is fast approaching. It remains less than a year now. The question of who will become the lucky helmsman in the presidential race had filled the air. It is a known fact that only Great Architect of the Universe can provide answer to that burning question.
The two prominent political parties – the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) – have conducted their primary elections to elect their flag bearers in the coming presidential race.
The ball is now in the court of the political panjandrum, the erstwhile governor of Lagos State and how it will be played is best known to him.
In reality, the trending video clip of what Asiwaju Bola Tinubu said is really convincing. He said: “Yorùbá ló kàn” (it is the turn of the Yoruba to be president).
His statements against President Muhammadu Buhari has raised concerns. With the plight of the country, a brave Yoruba man is needed to paddle the canoe of this country to the promise land.
Tinubu has a vast knowledge about the politics of Nigeria. No wonder he emerged the two-term governor of Lagos State which sired unprecedented development to the state. According to his revelation in the recently released video clip, he made Buhari president in the 2015 presidential election. This shows his political weight. I envisage Tinubu has grand mission for the entire Nigeria, to say the crystal fact. The popular Yorùbá saying “Omo eni kò ní se ìdí bèbèrè ká fi ìlèkè sí ìdí elò míràn” should drive us to turn blind eye to what he may has done wrong in the past, if any.
The administration of Buhari has bequeathed unconstitutional immunity to the Fulanis. Herdsmen have wreaked many havocs especially in the South-West. The herdsmen are just callously abducting people on daily basis; they have no regard for the Constitution. How long shall we continue to endure this quagmire? They have placed the ‘cows’ above the law and feel supreme above other tribes.
Consequently, it is high time the Yorubas cogitated. The popular aphorism of Yorùbá about ‘Aro’ and ‘Odofin’, to think deeply, should be a guide for us.
I’m not writing this article to castigate Buhari’s government but to open the ears of the Yoruba to certain things that may bring positivity to us as a nation, even owing to the fact by 2023, the will have ended an eight year tenure. Continue Reading
