By Dele Sobowale
“Standing on the foundation emplaced by the current [Buhari] administration, we shall build a Nigeria…” – Renewed Hope 2023: Action Plan For A Better Nigeria, p 3.
Buhari and Tinubu
Whenever there is a document promising to make Nigeria a better
place, I am ready to get it; read it; analyse it and publish my findings. I now
have a copy of what might be regarded as the Tinubu/Shettima/APC Manifesto for
the 2023 Presidential Election. The full analysis is almost finished; but, it
is too long for this column. So, the reader should not expect the details here.
I might add in passing that I also intend to obtain; read and analyse every
manifesto published – providing the owners arrange for me to get them. “Men
make history; but, not just as they please” – Karl Marx, 1818-1883.
That said; we now turn to the matter on hand. Let me start my stating that Asiwaju Tinubu has my sympathies. Those of us who were intimately involved in the struggle for the actualisation of the late Chief MKO Abiola’s mandate from 1993 till 1998, when the man died, can never forget his contributions. But, for his sagacity and street wisdom, when former President Olusegun Obasanjo deceived the leaders of Afenifere, and the Alliance for Democracy, AD, decided not to field a presidential candidate in 2003, the entire South-West would have been captured by the PDP.
