By Sunday Dare
L-R: Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari
The piece “Buhari beware of Tinubu” in the 2nd September Sun newspaper comes from the depleting arsenal of the forlorn amalgamation known as the PDP. At least we can say that the Sun newspaper has remained faithful. It was propaganda vehicle of the PDP prior to the election and has decided to stick to that role.
This article can be cited as an exemplar of graveyard journalism, its author an unabashed necromancer. For he disinters and romances old lies and falsehoods that have been investigated and buried because they were unfounded. No person so publicly and fervently revives old lies to express new truths. The author’s motive shall not be found in the codex of honesty and fairness. The purpose is as murky as the PDP and the former government it led.
Nothing these people do is straight. The arrows they shoot are crooked; the bow they use is warped. Nothing they say can be taken at face value. Every time they speak, they increase their inventory of lies by at least one per word spoken. While in office and with all the power of state at their disposal, all they could do was break the nation while defaming our collective intelligence by telling us all was getting better by the day. Instead of leading the nation to fine pastures, they led us into a dark cul-de-sac. Now they have the gall to castigate Bola Tinubu in order to distract the people from all the wrongs they have done and the money they squandered. Had they governed the nation as well as the APC’s progenitors governed Lagos, Nigeria would be a much better place. They know this. More importantly, the people know it.
In the article, a so-called guest columnist accuses Tinubu …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
