According to Aribisala,
“Tinubu is an experienced politician, but a bad student of history.
“In 2011, he formed an
alliance with Abubakar Atiku and the People Democratic Movement, who represents
a more progressive part of the north, but could not prevail against the
colossus of the PDP.
“Therefore, in 2015, he entered
into an alliance with Buhari and the core North, which has never even had any
progressive pretensions. There is nothing progressive about President Buhari.
“Everything about the
president’s politics was smoke and mirrors. He commanded the support of a
significant number of the Northern poor, in spite of the fact that there is
absolutely nothing in his CV about advancing the interests of the poor.
“He is a conservative
politician opposed to any restructuring of Nigeria’s polity through a national
conference. His only claim to popular appeal is a questionable belief that he
is anti-corruption.
“It was only a matter of
time before uneasy bed-fellows of the APC came to logger-heads. Once the
election was won, the APC started falling apart. The PDP wing of the party
conducted a coup and hijacked the National Assembly. Now the organs of the
party have been wrenched from Tinubu’s Action Congress of Nigeria. ”
Aribisala condemned the
anti-graft war of the Buhari-led administration, stressing that there is is
nothing real about the ongoing graft. He said, “There is actually
no real war against corruption going on today. There is not even a fight
against corruption, how much more a war. What we have is a government attempt
to decimate the opposition and create a de facto one-party state under the
guise of fighting against corruption.
“The PDP was not the only
party in power before 2015. Parties of the APC coalition were also in power at
the state level. So why is it that only the PDP is being prosecuted?
“You cannot fight
corruption with corruption. That is what the government has been doing. You
cannot fight corruption by abrogating the rule of law. We have heard so much
hyperbole about this fight against corruption, but with very little actual
results. It has all been just one big propaganda exercise. The fight against
corruption has become a poor and pathetic make-shift substitute for effective
public policy.
“As we get closer and
closer to 2019, the fighting will become more vicious and more incendiary. I
don’t expect the APC to survive.”
Source;Daily Post Nigeria
