Tinubu Blasts Kahamu, Says he is a Pretender

To keen watchers of Nigerian polity, the thick dust raised by the 2015 general elections will take some time to settle as war of words between Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All progressive Congress (APC) still rages on even though occasionally. However, what looks like a renewal of the melodrama of character assassinations that characterized the 2015 general elections campaign in Nigeria is about to rear its ugly head again. 

This time, the hostility is between the national leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (Jagaban) and the senator-elect on the platform of PDP for Ogun East Senatorial Disrtict, Buruji Kashamu, a financier and Chairman of the party’s Organisation and Mobilisation Committee in the South-west. To public analysts, the polity of the South-west is once again heating and may snowball into another tirade of political horsewhipping and personality attacks. 

 

The latest exchange stems from newspapers published open letter to Asiwaju by Kashamu reportedly describing Tinubu as a role model and architect of modern Nigeria. Obviously to curry the attention of APC leader and favour towards a good outing at the Senate Chambers. Tinubu however rebuffed Kahamu praise by saying he does not need any of such from a man like him who was never a sincere person.

In a statement by Tinubu’s Media adviser, Sunday Dare, he described Kashamu as a pretender. The former Governor of Lagos State said he felt insulted by the open letter Kashamu addressed to his person. Tinubu explained more “there is no basis for comparism between himself and Kashamu.

 

The APC leader wondered that Kashamu could praise him after conspiring with other PDP leaders to produce and broadcast a hate documentary against him. “Kashamu’s action and lifestyle showed that President Goodluck Jonathan and the leader of the PDP in Lagos, Chief Bode George were his role models” Tinubu said. 

While educating Kashamu against crass political literacy, Tinubu noted “the days of false adulation and sycophancy are gone in Nigerian politics. Fake praise singers like Kashamu will find that their particular craft is no longer in vogue. During this election cycle, their practice has dramatically turned from the way things are to how things used to be. 

Politicians will no longer be able to change direction and loyalties as if they were changing clothes. Those in politics must know that responsibility and accountability shall now follow them. One can no longer walk both sides of the street at the same time. In case Kashamu has not noticed the politics of principle defeated the politics posturing” He counseled.