Comments By Femi Aribisala Bola Tinubu

Colloquium—From left: Hon Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker of House of Representatives; Chief Bisi Akande, ACN National Chairman; Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Celebrant and Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and chairman of the occasion, at the 4th Bola Tinubu Colloquium- 'Looking Back, Thinking Ahead'- to commemorate his 60th Birthday yesterday in Lagos. Photo: Bunmi AzeezIs not a democrat, has never been a democrat and will never be a democrat. There is a popular Yoruba song that says: “Eko o gba gbere rara o.” It means: “Lagos does not take any nonsense whatsoever.” It is high time for Lagos to fulfil the intent of this song by putting a stop to commandeering of the political processes in the state by Bola Tinubu and his cronies. Colloquium—From left: Hon Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker of House of Representatives; Chief Bisi Akande, ACN National Chairman; Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Celebrant and Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and chairman of the occasion, at the 4th Bola Tinubu Colloquium- 'Looking Back, Thinking Ahead'- to commemorate his 60th Birthday yesterday in Lagos. Photo: Bunmi Azeez FILE PHOTO Colloquium—From left: Hon Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker of House of Representatives; Chief Bisi Akande, ACN National Chairman; Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Celebrant and Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and chairman of the occasion, at the 4th Bola Tinubu Colloquium- ‘Looking Back, Thinking Ahead’- to commemorate his 60th Birthday in Lagos. Photo: Bunmi Azeez Enough is enough. The domination of Lagos politics by one man has gone on for too long. Lagos must be wrested from the control of Bola Tinubu who has enslaved the politicians in the state and privatised its resources for the last 16 years. Senator Femi Okurounmu, a Yoruba Afenifere leader and co-coordinator of the recently concluded National Conference, said early this year: “Now that the Yoruba people have known that the APC is worse than PDP- in corruption, impunity and lack of internal democracy- we have to vote against APC.” Divided house The shenanigans of Tinubu at the just concluded APC gubernatorial primaries in Lagos provide strong confirmation of the veracity of the Senator’s position. Nobody should be fooled; the primaries were nothing but one big charade. Those of us who have insisted that there is nothing progressive or democratic about the APC were sadly proved right once again. Tinubu frustrated every pretension to democracy in the elections and manipulated his cronies into office; all in the interest of sustaining his

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