2023 presidency: Tinubu is ignorantly arrogant, says Bode George

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National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was on Thursday, taken to the cleaners over his 2023 presidential ambition.
Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, who spoke in Lagos, wondered why Tinubu’s ambition is being championed by his loyalists “even when President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to be sworn in for a second term”.
George said: “I’m shocked by his ambition. It is a silly and inordinate ambition such as this that is driving our people into the gutters. He is ignorantly arrogant. We should pray for such characters”.
He wondered why Tinubu should be talking about 2023 presidency now “when only God can determine who would be alive by then. What he should be thinking about now is the legacy he would be remembered for and not a presidency that is beyond his control”.
Speaking on insecurity in the country, George warned that the nation is at crossroads and that “it would take the Grace of God to bring it back”.
“I speak today devoid of partisan frame, stripped of political identification, removed from any ethnic prejudice. I speak today as a concerned Nigerian Elder and Patriot.
“We are all ill-defined, ill-shaped, broken into a thousand pieces. The democratic purity is dangerously distorted, bruised, disfigured, savaged, hurled to the brink of a ruinous precipice. Our once glorious and beautiful mosaic of cultural plurality and sectarian diversity are being mangled, forfeited on the altar of infantile partisan and parochial divisions.”
He lamented that “this nation is without ethical leadership, without honour, without credible vision, lacking in purposeful articulation. The scourge of nepotism, the poisonous bile of tribal triumphalism, the hate infested curse of provincial fixities are now gaining grounds everywhere, defining the thematic aberrations of our times.
“Let us be truthful and frank: our nation is embattled, scourged and savaged by the virtual selfishness of our collective elites. We are all guilty for the present ravaged state of our troubled nation. The ogre created by the selfishness of the few has come to haunt us all.
“But beyond the harsh confines of ethnic divisions, beyond the savageries of partisan furore, we are yet confronted by the murderous furies of bandits and faceless herdsmen who continuously subject every inch of this nation to a vast killing fields where none can claim a refuge of undisturbed safety and guaranteed protective cordon.
“Now both the rich and the poor are easy targets. The dividing lines are now blurred, indistinguishable, flung upon the whims and the reckless inflictions of murderous bandits who negotiate with no one except when the price is right.
“Alas we are now in a conundrum. Our nation is affrighted, thrown upon a suspended animation. We are hindered and halted in a cul de sac. Nothing seems bright and sunny anymore.
“But there must be a better way. We must return to the path of fairness and enlightened equity. We must return to the path of balanced ingredients of democratic purity where the logical essence of checks and balances prevail among the tripodal branches of the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary. Justice must prevail over partiality, inequity and unfairness. The enlightened society can only be established when everyone, regardless of tribe and tongue, is treated fairly in the Nigerian commonwealth”.

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