[OPINION BY LOUIS ODION] Tinubu: The power of ‘aforiti’ | TheCable
and this writer ended up being the last to leave the putative den of the “Lion of Bourdillon” in Lagos at past midnight.
The instinctive warrior is never shy to insert himself in a battle for others, but often with eyes on the greater prize not easily perceived by the shortsighted. When told about the precarious financial position of Concord Press in 1999, he made a generous offer to buy the company’s idle giant power generator on behalf of the Lagos State Water Board. The money offered would have been sufficient to offset the long arrears of salaries owed Concord workers and re-finance its operations. But just before the deal could be consummated came a caveat emptor in a national newspaper placed by one of MKO’s children.
After bouts of long, fraternal bear-hugs with old comrades amid bitter-sweet reminiscences on the darkness that had pervaded Nigeria in the preceding five years, the returnee hinted a plan to return to the senate where he was chairman of the Appropriations Committee until Abacha’s coup of November 17, 1993.“Why not contest the Lagos governorship instead?” Bello interjected. Alake and Babatope shared that view, perceiving a vacancy in Lagos’ emerging politics after Abacha.
Confronted by Segun Adeniyi and this writer in an interview we conducted for Sunday Concord shortly afterward, Adeniji-Adele told us in confidence that he had been directly threatened by a notorious army Major close to Abacha, listing that as a pre-condition for him to contest the coming elections. In his own calculation, he did not consider that a significant price to pay “if only to reclaim Lagos and use it to defend Abiola’s interest”.
Unfortunately, once the form got submitted, all the depositions therein became binding. To claim otherwise elsewhere is perjury. Out of malice, political opponents twist this to mean he told lies about his past. It is one of the burdens Jagaban has had to bear ever since.
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