"Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, lambasted Senate President, Bukola Saraki, describing him as an indisciplined, disloyal and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in soul"
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is an astute politician. He understands the game and he plays it well too. He's not unaware of how Alh. Tambuwal emerged as Speaker of the House of Representative against the choice of PDP (Tambuwal's party at that time). In fact, it's not unlikely that Tinubu was not involved in Tambuwal's assumption of the House's leadership then. I mean, Asiwaju Tinubu most likely played a role in ensuring that Hon. Tambuwal thwarted the PDP's plan regarding the speakership of the House at that time.
Tambuwal's emergence as Speaker was probably part of a political game that resulted in Speaker Tambuwal's eventual defection to the APC from PDP. So, Asiwaju Tinubu, (possibly) knowing how Alh. Tambuwal remained a PDP member on paper but was an APC member in his soul throughout the period he was the House Speaker, reasonably believes that Senate President Saraki may have joined the APC on paper but has remained a PDP member in his soul. I therefore agree with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu's possible suspicion that Senate President Saraki, having become the president of the senate without his party's support, may eventually defect to the PDP.
Defection of a sitting senate president to another party is indeed a great loss to the party on whose platform he came to the office. There is every reason to fear this. Asiwaju Tinubu therefore has genuine reason to have this fear and I guess he's just doing that.
No comments:
Post a Comment