Former Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State said the powerful cabal in the Presidency is planning to give All Progressives Congress (APC) leader Bola Tinubu the ‘MKO Abiola’ treatment at the presidential primary of the APC.
Fayose said this in an open letter to Tinubu on Monday, which he personally signed.
MKO Abiola was the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993, Presidential election, but was denied victory after the result was controversially annulled. He was eventually detained by the military government of General Sani Abacha the following year for declaring himself President. He died four years later.
In his open letter, Fayose said it was obvious that Tinubu was swimming against the tide and he needed to proceed with extreme caution.
The letter read in part, “Going by the handwritings that are now clearly on the wall, if I may consider, sir, I see you as one who may be swimming against the political tide of the cabal in your party. They are equally prepared for your actions and reactions and are fully set to contain the same as they did to both Awolowo and Abiola.”
Fayose said, unfortunately, Tinubu’s empire—which comprised almost all the six South-West governors and ministers as well as Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo—had been balkanised as evidenced by Tinubu’s outburst in Abeokuta last week.
The ex-governor added that the responses to the Abeokuta outburst by some of Tinubu’s allies in the North and the South were something to worry about.
He added, “Unfortunately, your kingdom has been badly balkanised if what happened in Abeokuta is anything to go by. The book of Proverbs 22 verse 3 reads, ‘Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but unthinking people will walk into it’.”
Meanwhile, REPORTERS AT LARGE earlier reported that the APC governors from the North have rejected the choice of Senate President Ahmed Lawan as the consensus presidential candidate of the party.
The National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, was said to have announced Lawan as the consensus candidate, a decision that members of the National Working Committee reportedly disagreed with.
