“I Am Omoluabi, I Will Not Vote For A Politically Deficient Tinubu Because He’s Yoruba”

by Akin Atobatele

I remember in 1996/97, one of my egbons had a plug to get people to US effortlessly. I really wanted to go too but the only thing I had to do, according to him, was to get an international passport showing that I was born 6 to 7 years earlier and claimed I was working in one of the government establishments. I couldn’t do that because I knew the importance of choice in fulfillment of destiny at that early age. It was a bridge I couldn’t cross so no US for me then.

Now I am being persuaded to vote a man that made a choice to change his lineage, date of birth, name and past to fit into a profile. He has unrepentantly continue to perpetuate the falsehood. A man linked with drug trades, corruptions and political murders. His only qualification- he is a Yoruba man though he has no attributes of Omoluabi. Am I a saint? Not by any stretch of imagination but there are certain bridges my omoluabi attributes will not cross.

If they wanted us to support a Yoruba man they should have given us Osinbajo. They gave us a man that came into prominence, not by persuasion of ideas or rectitude (which he lacks in abundance) but by making Lagos his fiefdom where he cornered their wealth to buy the system. Lagos’ wealth made Tinubu who he is and not any political sagacity. Lagos made him richer than even OSUN state, as he boasted, enough to ‘persuade’ the judiciary to bow to his will and convince enough thugs. I guffaw when they compare him with Papa Awolowo. Have you read papa’s books and thoughts before. Has Tinubu ever sounded like a man of conviction and ideas like Papa Awolowo? Can Papa Awolowo ever suggested that the way to tackle employment is by recruiting 50 million youths into the army and feeding them agbado?

People with no values or sense of history will call their betters “omo Ale” because we refused to follow a thief to Golgotha when we have a “saint” Obi in tow. They know we are not like them looking for crumbs to eat from the Tinubu’s debauchery family banquet. We won’t follow a man that boasted like Nebuchadnezzar that he made presidents and governors, forgetting that there is the One called the Almighty that rules in the affairs of men, because we know how it will end for him. Supporters of a man accused of being a drug lord can continue genuflecting on his debased altar but the few selected on the mountaintop of values and integrity will not bow to their bronze god standing with a clay feet.

The same people that wasted 8 years of a nation’s life, destabilizing unity and prosperity, want to give us another relic that dishes out political patronage to buy loyalty not for progress. The only thing going for him is that he cannot be worse than Buhari. I hate being right or being told down the line that ”You were right” a la Buhari’s disaster of a presidency.

We will continue shouting oooo. Their response is “Tinubu will be your president whether you like it or not” as if when the sky is falling it is a matter of one person. We mooove….