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According to a report from the Daily Sun, a new bloc of power has emerged in South West Nigeria ahead of the 2019 presidential elections.
Ibikunle Amosun, Babatunde Fashola, Kayode Fayemi top the list of powerbrokers, the report said.
Excerpt:
The admonition from every sitting Nigerian president immediately after his victory in an election is that politics should be relegated to the background for governance to take the central stage. It is however, a refrain that is observed in the breach, as power game towards a second term commences almost immediately after formal inauguration.
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo was reported to have told a confidant and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in year 2000 that his challenge was not a fresh mandate in 2003, but retaining power in 2007- that was three years to the full exercise of his first term mandate and seven years before his controversial tenure elongation plot became full blown. Nigerians would also not forget in a hurry that Dr Goodluck Jonathan commenced his plot for a single term of six years, few months after he won the 2011 presidential election.
Having lost out in the recent power game in Ondo State where his anointed and candidate of the Alliance for Democracy, Olusola Oke put up a dismal performance, APC’s Rotimi Akeredolu’s feat made possible by Buhari’s foot soldiers in the zone may have emboldened the presidency that the ubiquitous former Lagos State governor, is after all, dispensable in the politics of the Southwest . Ahead of 2019, a new power bloc, a creation of the presidency is gradually unfolding in the volatile zone.
But who are the forces behind the unnerving plot to supplant Tinubu? The new power brokers, who (with exception of one) incidentally are political godsons of the beleaguered former Lagos governor.
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Ibikunle Amosun, Babatunde Fashola, Kayode Fayemi top the list of powerbrokers, the report said.
Excerpt:
The admonition from every sitting Nigerian president immediately after his victory in an election is that politics should be relegated to the background for governance to take the central stage. It is however, a refrain that is observed in the breach, as power game towards a second term commences almost immediately after formal inauguration.
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo was reported to have told a confidant and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in year 2000 that his challenge was not a fresh mandate in 2003, but retaining power in 2007- that was three years to the full exercise of his first term mandate and seven years before his controversial tenure elongation plot became full blown. Nigerians would also not forget in a hurry that Dr Goodluck Jonathan commenced his plot for a single term of six years, few months after he won the 2011 presidential election.
Having lost out in the recent power game in Ondo State where his anointed and candidate of the Alliance for Democracy, Olusola Oke put up a dismal performance, APC’s Rotimi Akeredolu’s feat made possible by Buhari’s foot soldiers in the zone may have emboldened the presidency that the ubiquitous former Lagos State governor, is after all, dispensable in the politics of the Southwest . Ahead of 2019, a new power bloc, a creation of the presidency is gradually unfolding in the volatile zone.
But who are the forces behind the unnerving plot to supplant Tinubu? The new power brokers, who (with exception of one) incidentally are political godsons of the beleaguered former Lagos governor.
Read full report
