By Olu Fasan
Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state,
has been thrown under the bus. He will not serve a second term in office not
because the people of Lagos state
rejected him in an election but because his godfather, Bola Tinubu, pulled the
plug on his re-election bid. When somebody dies, Christians often say, quoting
Job 1: 21, that “The Lord gives and the Lord takes away”.
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| *Tinubu and Abode |
Well, in Lagos state
politics, Tinubu gives and Tinubu takes away! He is the god of Lagos state
politics, the lord of the Lagos Manor! In 2007, before leaving office as
governor of the state, Tinubu gifted the governorship to his protégé, Babatunde
Fashola. Eight years later, in 2015, Fashola didn’t know his place. He too
wanted to be a godfather by making one of his own protégés governor of the
state against the diktat of his own godfather. But, forgive the colloquialism,
godfather pass godfather! Fashola lost out, and another Tinubu bag-carrier,
Ambode, became governor.
