Between Olusegun Obasanjo and Ahmed Tinubu, who is the saint? (1)

Have pondered severally based on what my average mind can recall the events playing itself out within the little time space of our political framework towards the forthcoming election, and sincerely cant see who the saint is in the two most influential political guru from the south western part of the country, Nigeria.
To avail myself the benefit of a doubt, I chose to think out aloud so that other citizenry wandering on the same path as myself could be enlightened by our so called political class professors. Honestly, between the incumbent president, Olusegun Obasanjo and the action governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the only surviving governor on the ticket of Alliance for Democracy (now a member of Action Congress), the “Omo Orukan” meaning the Orphan, we need to examine who is the saint.
Casting our minds back to the beginning of this political history, Tinubu had made us realize how Obasanjo betrayed the trust of the AD governors when he wittingly schemed them out of office after they had rallied round him to get a second shot at the prestigious office of the presidency.
It was observed that the president was controlling the nation’s wealth without due recourse to laid down dictates of the constitution, he assumes a larger than life attitude of taking decisions purely on the way he sees issues without considering other views available around him.
Has the leader of his party, the fear of Obasanjo is the beginning of retaining your position. For so many that have worked with him, they have come to realize that it’s not how well but how far you can indulge the actions and utterances of the president that keeps you going. The past few months had shown that even the closest allies of the president can be done away with without notice.
The machinery of the party is totally in the hands of the president, he runs the affair of the party to fit his whims and caprices, at times without consultation. The last national congress of the Peoples Democratic Party showed the extent at which politicking has degenerated into within our polity.
Contestants were been harasses and intimidated to step down for a particular contestant just because they are not Obasanjo’s choice as an heir apparent had already been chosen. Before the primaries, accusations were leveled against intending aspirants which was an integral plan by a section of the party to have control of its soul. Out came the rumbling from the jungle, the King Kong of all corruption, the Petroleum Trust Development Fund scandal came to the limelight, all because the parties’ involved wanted power at the centre at all cost.
It was indeed revealing, what transpired behind the iron curtains of Aso rock. I stop to think, if Atiku had not shown his intention to contest in the presidential election, would the nation have known anything about the PTDF issue. Now, Atiku is being hunted for his crimes as the head of the body charged with running the affairs of the organisation, the matter is an issue for another day.
Obasanjo has made it known that Atiku is not fit for the exalted position of the president, atleast not in the net dispensation going by the sleaze of worms coming out of the PTDF dirt. So where this has left our amiable vice president but to take is fight to another party, the Action Congress with the likes of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

By Adewumi Olumide