Bola Ahmed Tinubu: All Hail the Godfather!

He made it clear that he did not want Akinwunmi Ambode again as continue as the governor of Lagos State beyond May 29, 2019. Many thought he was joking but he stood his ground. Despite entreaties from different quarters asking him to “forgive” his estranged son, Tinubu stood his ground and he pushed forward a certain Babajide SanwoOlu. Even when the party was toying with the idea of overruling him, he laughed it off.

Tinubu proved one thing with the emergence of Sanwo-Olu as the APC gubernatorial candidate in Lagos State: he is a serial winner.

They are winners in the Zamfara imbroglio. They are the eight contestants that have stood against Yari’s decision to impose his commissioner for finance as the governorship candidate of the party, APC, in the state. In fact, they now refer to them as the G8. One of them, Senator Kabiru Mafara, who is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum, said Yari wanted to continue to rule the state by proxy and that was why he was insisting on his commissioner for finance succeeding him.

If it was left to Governor Nasir el-Rufai alone, Shehu Sani would have been retired politically long ago. In fact, the governor had written a letter to President Buhari detailing Sani’s sins against the party and the president himself and why he must be prevented from returning to the Senate. El-Rufai had said in the letter that they had wanted the Dino Melaye treatment for him but looking at the “loopholes” in that plan and decided to wait and defeat him at the primary election.

But Sani has emerged the winner , he has