Tinubu and the burden of leadership – Adewole Adeoye

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The Commonsense Revolution being spearheaded by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was instrumental to the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last general elections, but has also harvested troubles for the APC chieftain.
It was the revolution which kicked out the monstrous People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and it is the same revolution which has now become a recurring albatross on Tinubu’s political neck.
It is not homogeneity in ideology that gave victory to APC, because its founders were ideologically diametrical. They employed what they have to obtain what they want, so as to eliminate PDP from the central government.
Muhammad Buhari laid down his honour, integrity and political clout, especially in the North; while Tinubu used his money and political clout, especially in the South West. Others chipped in here and there.
That is the movement of Commonsense Revolution, a principle which will hopefully be rejigged and exploited to guide the party through in its subsequent drives and exploits, especially at elections and party agenda with focus on common ideology, the initial crisis rocking the party notwithstanding.
Tinubu is well grounded in Nigerian politics. With the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election and the subsequent militarization of the Nigerian politics, he became a founding member of the famous pro-democracy group, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) which, for several years, engaged the military for the actualization of a democratic governance. He fled the country in the wake of that struggle.
In 1998, he returned to Nigeria and joined in the national reconciliation and development. The following year, he began his two-term tenure as an elected governor of Lagos State on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) which later transmuted to Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).
Whatever Lagos State – and to a large extent the South West – may be today …Read More

Source:: New Mail