For quite some years, Bola Ahmed Tinubu was seen as the leaders of the Yorubas. There was a time when the likes of Late Sen. Abraham Adesanya was the voice and image of the Yoruba people. Bola Tinubu, a political stalwart assumed that position even while he was the governor of Lagos State. He was embraced by almost every Yoruba who saw him as the Moses to lead the region to a new glory reminiscent of that created by Awolowo.

Recently, there are people - even in Yorubaland - that see Tinubu, the Messiah, as an obstacle to the progress of the Yoruba nation. While this position is arguable, one cannot deny that Tinubu no longer enjoys the broad appeal he once had among his people. Governor Rauf Aregbesola's rise to stardom in the South-West began while he was a commissioner in Lagos State in Tinubu's regime. His victory in getting the courts to reverse the electoral outcome that produced Olagunsoye Oyinlola as Governor of Osun State was seen as a remarkable point in his political career.

People saw him as a triumphant and relentless warrior - one who would not allow injustice to be meted out to the people. His passion to see to it that justice was done and his valiant efforts in that regard was no doubt admired. Gradually, he won the hearts of Osun indigenes in his first term of office. The people thought it befitting to cast their votes for him a second time, which saw to it that he was victorious at an electoral process that could be described as free and fair. With Tinubu's gradual decline and Aregbesola's gradual climb, can the Yoruba people accept Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as the leader of the region?
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Ha ha ... They have tried and tried so much for their pockets. I am sure that none of these will in their wildest of dreams want to assume that they fit the nomenclature - Leader of the Yoruba race. There is none for now. The qualifications are very tight. The ones we have lobbying for it are either drug lords and white substance sniffers or abject religious extremists with only one motive: To make the race an extension of the Saudi Arabia at whatever costs.

People have traded their very existence in the quest for Power. They rule with NO PRINCIPLES. Sadly.