The National Coordinator of the Disciples of Jagaban, Comrade Abdulhakeem Adegoke Alawuje says the rift between the Southern governors and their Northern counterparts will not stop Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu from becoming Nigeria president.
He said Tinubu is not only a nationalist but a completely detribalised Nigeria who have sacrificed everything within his political domain to become a political leader of repute, saying the National Leader has refused to link any political attack against him to ethnicity or religion.
Alawuje who explained that DOJ is a national movement and a rescue team which involves all Nigerians irrespective of religious or tribal affiliations said Tinubu will sail through the hurdles.
“We have always prepared for this situation but the good thing is we know it will surely come to pass. Tinubu should be seen as a nationalist rather than be seen as a sectional leader.
“Tinubu has always controlled himself from making utterances that could injure the nation despite consistent and mostly unjustified attacks against him. All this goes to show Tinubu has what it takes to lead this country successfully,
Not even the opposition can dispute this fact.
“As a matter of fact, none of his contemporaries, either within the All Progressives Congress or among the opposition can tolerate and endure barrage of frustrating political attacks that our principal has endured from 2015 till date”.
Alawuje said it’s therefore obvious that the current rift on anti-grazing law and Value Added Tax which has polarised the govermors won’t affect Tinubu’s chances of becoming Nigeria’s president.
The DOJ National Coordinator explained that the reason for preferring Tinubu to lead at this critical period is neither motivated by tribal sentiment nor informed by any other primordial sentiments, but because of how he has used tenacity of purpose and political sagacity to foster love, unity and harmony between the South and the North, when Nigerians voted across the two regions in 2015 and 2019.
“Tinubu is the center of gravity, a uniting force. We all know that Tinubu was the major factor in the emergence of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari as president, just as President Buhari was the major factor in the North. So, any attempt to break the synergy now will not give us any good result, and any move to break them apart will be unfair to them and the country at large.
“We should remember how the effort of our forefathers who brought us (North and South) together as a single country was about to be frittered away before the coming of Asiwaju who made the ambition of President Buhari to become a reality In 2015. We have gone a very long way, so denying Asiwaju his constitutional right at this time may further aggravate the mutual distrust between us. This distrust may be unwittingly transmitted to the coming generation of Nigerians; and that will be sad enough.
“DOJ hereby appeals to Nigerians, in the overall interest of the country and in the interest of our future generation to give their support to Asiwaju Tinubu as an experienced leader who has all it takes to lead Nigeria.
Alawuje described Tinubu as the most courageous politician with the highest form of sacrifices in the Nigeria’s political landscape, in addition to being the best political manager in Nigeria’s history.
“It will be a serious mistake for the ruling party leadership to deny the nation the service of Tinubu on the altar of North and South dichotomy. Tinubu deserves the ticket and he is competent to rule Nigeria.”
The coordinator averred that most Southerners who opposed Tinubu are mere tribal and religious bigots who resent him because of his support for a Northern candidate ahead of their Southern compatriot from another party, warning them to be wary of institutionising ethnicity in Nigeria’s body polity.
He described as bigots, Northerners who said “heaven will not fall if the North produces the next president”, warning them to prioritise Nigeria’s interest over sectional ones.
Alawuje stressed that Nigeria must continue on the same trajectory of love and the direction of unification charted by the duo of Buhari/Tinubu in 2014/2015 to ensure consistence in policy and persistence in economic growth.
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