An ardent support and promoter of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu presidency project and a media entrepreneur, Mogaji Wole Arisekola has been talking about his findings about last Saturday’s presidential election in Nigeria.
In a chat with Parrot Xtra/PMParrot explicitly painted the picture of how his mentor, Asiwaju Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress (APC) recorded an unusual electoral success at the election.
According to the Ibadan Mogaji “To kick PDP out of government in 2015, the APC needed an alliance of ACN, CPC and nPDP. And they defeated PDP despite PDP’s rigging strategies.
“Eight years later, PDP wanted to get APC out of govt and to do that, they divided themselves into NNPP, LP, G5 and PDP. The result is not surprising.
“Tinubu won with just 8.7 million votes. Combine the votes between Atiku and Peter Obi alone and you will get 13 million votes. Add Kwankwaso and you have 14.4 million votes.
“There is no way on earth that APC would have been able to win if Atiku, Obi, Kwankwaso were in one party.”
Arisekola who is also the publisher of Ireland-based Streetjournal then went ahead to warn, saying “And please stop telling us how APC rigged the election. If you thought this election would have been free, fair and without rigging then you’re just being naive.
“PDP also rigged in 2015. But yet the people’s will prevailed because the margin of APC was too wide to catch up.
“If this election was 14.4 million votes of opposition against 8.7 million votes of APC, there is no way APC could have bridged that gap with rigging. Just impossible.
“So, yeah, everyone knows the election was rigged. We expected it. But rigging is definitely not the main factor here please.
“This election was already lost the moment the opposition divided themselves into different fringe parties.
“The ill-advised opposition parties were conducting useless polls up and down. And in all the polls, Bola Tinubu was coming second. Virtually all.
In polls that favoured Atiku as winner, Tinubu was second. In polls that favoured Obi as winner, Tinubu was second and in polls that favoured Kwankwaso as winner, Tinubu was also second.
“This means that the signs were there all along that this would happen. But most of us did not actually pay proper attention.
“In summary, the opposition failed Nigerian masses through their selfishness, greed for power and ego.
“Majority of Nigerians (14.4 million voters against 8.7 million voters) wanted a change. But they won’t have that change because the opposition made Tinubu’s victory easier.
“So, like I’ve said before, expect Tinubu to be your President for the next four to eight years by the special grace of God and the good people of Nigeria.
“You see, before the just concluded presidential election, Baba Ayo Adebanjo, leader of the Afenifere group, told me that the North would betray Tinubu and that they would not vote for him.
“However, I rejected his submission and told him that the northerners wouldn’t betray Tinubu at the polls.
“I also told him that my friends who are Northerners and below the age of sixty had assured me that the North would vote for Tinubu.
“Baba Adebanjo then told me ‘We, your fathers were unable to achieve what you are talking about, how dare you believe that this will be possible?’.
“But I kept quiet, and I called my friends in the military, police, DSS, and NIA, who are my age mates. They assured me that I should not worry about his stance.
“They added that Northerners appreciate the role Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu played during the struggle to return power to the North, and will not let him down. The present crop of young Northerners are promise keepers.
“We didn’t have money to share among ourselves but we shared true love. We live together like true brothers”.
Arisekola then dropped a warning, “If you are a Yoruba man, be careful with some of our Papas, they don’t see anything good in anything that their children do not directly involve them in. May Tinubu/Shettima presidency succeed. Amin.”
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