Thread by @DemolaRewaju

Tinubu deliberately didn’t breed intellectuals or upwardly mobile elite youths in Lagos but built his power base on illiterate market women, traders, bus drivers and someone like K1.

To be fair: It’s his prerogative but it’s also our prerogative to be disgusted by it and him.

https://twitter.com/walegates/status/1041792085433704451

Initially, Tinubu has the likes of Femi Pedro from the corporate sector, Moses Opeyemi Bamidele, Segun Maiyegun and a host of young students unionists around him but they asked too many questions and had aspirations.

He chucked them all off and rebuilt with MC Oluomo types.

Those ones won’t question him or have aspirations.

K1 wanted to be a Senator before 2015 and Tinubu asked rhetorically “se igbe ni won nke mbe ni?” - is it noise (music) they make there?

Those are the people he surrounds himself with and subservient half-intellectuals.

And I think it’s important for us to have this convos now and not build this democracy on the spurious idea that Winning is what makes a great political leader - cos it’s not.

Awolowo never won a single election but Yorubas have never had a political leader like him, never ever.

Political Leadership isn’t only about ability to win elections.

I hope one day soon I can do a proper Tinubu analysis, not necessarily to denigrate him but to reset the standard for future political leadership away from this idea of “so long as he’s winning Lagos” foolishness.

A state where a NURTW chairman from Alimosho can say to the Governor in Yoruba:

“Did Leader tell you he has handed over to you? Asiwaju should I slap him so that he’ll know you didn’t hand over to him?”

PS: I don’t know the state o, me I’m just saying but if you know, you know.

Alausa around 2003: you had FIG Maximum Shishi, Baglo and other ideological students unionists.

All of them eventually left - Baglo even joined PDP I think.

Today isn’t the day sha - I’m trying to soak up and enter the mode for #OsunDecides2018 - let me leave Lagos for now.

Their Asiwaju is just an Adedibu with Lagos exposure - even Adedibu wasn’t intimidated by brilliance and would respect it so long as you respected his own strength with the grassroots too.

Even Chris Uba knows his limits and doesn’t aspire for office - not today sha...

Lagos is the only state in the SW where general elections are concluded once Tinubu chooses a candidate - how is that even logical with a state that claims to be most sophisticated among all SW states?

Something should tell you something is wrong somewhere with Lagos.

And PDP Lagos - half of our leaders are on Bourdillon payroll, I can place a large wager on it.

Someone at a party meeting telling you to refer not to say someone’s name but to call him Asiwaju -

Asiwaju of who? Where and How nau?

He got dragged last last sha, but Osun pls...

A state of over 20m residents and well over 6m voters but only less than 2m vote in elections - yet, PDP can’t alter the dynamics.

Tinubu plays “machine politics” (google the meaning pls) and it’s pedestrian.

Let my generation come into politics first then you’ll see POLITICS.