BOLA TINUBU, THE IMPERIAL AUDACITY.

Icheoku says move over everybody, hello and big welcome to the now Nigeria's most powerful man and the man who makes president. When many Nigerians thought his political wizardly and mettle is restricted to making governors of men he randomly picked and chose, now the man who owns and runs the All Progressive Congress, Ashiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has taken it to another level; he has added another feather to his cap of a political mathematician and now makes president. Icheoku says bravo and congratulations to ABT as not only did he trample where angels feared to tread, but he also ensured the resounding defeat of a sitting presidential incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan and thus brought his second term dreams fast crashing down. Another first in Nigeria, except if one adds the Muhammadu Buhari's military coup de'tat that ended President Shehu Shagari's second term. 

But unlike Muhammadu Buhari who plotted, contrived and conspired in secret with his unseating President Shagari,  ABT publicly declared ahead of time of his intention to unseat the president, meticulously plotted and assiduously worked his magic until fruition. The result, a man who had unsuccessfully ran three consecutive times for the presidency of Nigeria and who was drafted yet again to run for the fourth time, is today an elected president of Nigeria, courtesy of ABT. Ahmed Bola Tinubu once again worked his magic and the nearly perpetually unelectable Muhammadu Buhari is today, Nigeria's elected president in the waiting. The task of making anyone president, especially someone like Muhammadu Buhari president of Nigeria, is much more difficult than pulling a tooth without anesthesia. So any benefactor who could pull off such is worthy congratulating; as it literally required turning a pariah into an adorable hero and becoming the very successful and enviable salesman who sold sand to desert dwellers.  ABT is that man and benefactor in chief who has now bequeathed Muhammadu Buhari with his elusive  presidency of Nigeria; and therefore, now officially the new acclaimed godfather of Nigeria politics.

Icheoku is not a fan of Bola Tinubu, but this his latest feat has surely enamored many of his previous critics including Icheoku to semi-admirers of his. What a man, a political tactician extraordinary in whom  the Yoruba race must now be well pleased and salivating that they produced and gave to Nigeria. His petite size notwithstanding; which goes to show that the heart makes a man and not the framework skeleton. The Yoruba race has now officially minted an affable political wonder-worker in the person of Bola Tinubu and they surely deserve all the encomiums coming their way as a result of this resounding victory he carefully plotted and flawlessly executed against a sitting incumbent president of the most populous country in Africa and who belongs to the "largest" political party in Africa. A party which had repeatedly touted Nigerians that they will be in power for the life of every Nigerian currently alive - a whopping six decades (60 years)? But luckily, the political surgeon-general Bola Tinubu has just sliced off 44 years therefrom and still managed to keep Nigeria alive. 

Icheoku as well as many Nigerians who were particularly offended by this 60 years span idiotic pronouncement, first uttered by then chairman Vincent Ogbulafor, are glad that this ABT intervention has saved Nigeria from such a long hallowing one-party envisaged control of the country, admitted we would have wished it come in 2019 and not this 2015. But hey, life must go on with a Nigeria which has moved on with a new elected president in the waiting. Peradventure, Bola TInubu will play a major role in not only filling respective positions in the incoming government but will somehow partake directly in government in some capacity, either as chief political adviser to the government or even chief of staff. But boy would Icheoku like to see what becomes of this new man in town participating in governance at the center and in his no nonsense manner. Ahmed Bola Tinubu succeeded where others failed and against all odds has made the unelectable Muhammadu Buhari an elected president of Nigeria. Muhammadu Buhari tried on three previous occasions including the last one being in 2011 with a Yoruba Pastor Tunde Bakare but failed, so it was not his Pastor Osibanjo co-ticket that wrought the magic, it was Ahmed Bola Tinubu. So to the merited, the tribute goes. 

Now that ABT has cemented his authority not only in Yorubaland but in Nigeria as the political numero uno player, he should seriously consider using the opportunity of the incoming government to abolish all those "useless Yoruba Obas" who have since outlived their usefulness?  If they could be this roundly routed by the Jagabon himself throughout their kingdoms, what use are they and their authority anyway, if not useless? If after all their pontifications of support and endorsements, President Jonathan still lost in Yorubaland, leading to the conclusion that there is certainly a new sheriff in town named Ahmed Bola TInubu, what the heck good are they remaining in authority any way? How can these Yoruba Obas, Afenifere, OPC, Council of Elders, Oduduwa this Oduduwa that collectively endorse or pretended to endorse President Jonathan, yet the president managed to scrape by votes from their region? It is either they deceived the president or their power and influence in the region have so much waned and withered down that it is almost irrelevant. So to Bola Tinubu's assertion that "Yoruba Obas are useless", Icheoku would like to add and so is OPC, Afenifere, Oduduwa this and Oduduwa that; as well as every other collection of human beings presently cashing in under whatever subterfuge in that region. So ban them all, ABT; Icheoku ascribes.

Icheoku's one last appeal to the now proven doyen of Nigerian politics, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, is to lock the gates of the APC tightly shut against all the would be PDP carpet-beggars who would soon be drooling in droves to become members of the APC, in their shameless "any party in power just give me contracts" loveless show of pretended love and affectation. These people should be told to remain in their PDP and help rebuild that humpty-dumpty which their avarice and lack of respect for the man at the helm of affairs helped bring this laughable outing in this presidential election. Good enough, Bola Tinubu is a no nonsense despot of some sort and knows what needs to be done to keep this bunch of political jobbers at bay. He should also maintain zero tolerance ruthless rule in the APC in order to avoid the fate which befell the PDP and in the manner he told off Momodu Sheriff to take a hike, be prepared to show any unruly member the exit door. He should clobber every existing APC member into becoming real party-men and women, showing unalloyed loyalty and obedience to party structures and hierarchy; with no room for any unruly behavior or rebellion and any such display or inkling should be summarily punished with a dismissal or the offender asked once again to take a hike. Icheoku says to Ashiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, you got the touch and you got the heart, the can-do spirit which distinguishes the man among the men; you lead and others follow you, this one is for you, hearty CONGRATULATIONS!