Now that we know who all the presidential candidates are permit me to say the following.
President Tinubu will not only win the 2027 presidential election fair and square but he will win it hands down.
The following words come to mind when I consider the opposition and those that seek to challenge him: weak, divided, insipid, deluded, vain, mendacious, intellectually bankrupt, morally challenged, manifestly dishonest and lacking in gravitas and integrity.
They present NO credible threat & offer NO serious challenge.
They are like the Biblical tower of Babel: a vexatious and cantankerous brood of venomous vipers, strange bedfellows, inexplicable paradoxies, irreconcilable contradictions, ill-bred and unlettered fools, specious liars, misguided souls, power-lusting degenerates, accursed malefactors and a loud and unbearable cacaphony of delusion and confusion all rolled into one and all speaking in different languages and moving in different directions.
Theirs is the noise of the market place: loud, empty, vacuous, insignificant, irrelevant and more often than not crude and obscene. They are more of a comedy show than an opposition.
Lost in their own sorry fables and fanciful tales, they attract pity and ridicule rather than respect and admiration. Like Shakespeare’s Macbeth said, their’s is “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”.
Failure, shame, defeat, decimation, humiliation and contempt stares them in the face and catastrophy is their portion.
Their anger, hate, bitterness, insults, desperation, blindness, wild allegations, baseless assertions, insincerity of purpose and sinister and increasingly desperate attempts to divide our people, destabilise our Government, terrorise and traumatise our citizenry and destroy our nation has set them on a path of self-annihilation and the road to eternal damnation. I feel sorry for them.
Permit me to add the following. Peter Obi, the IPOB candidate, may do well in the South East but he will not fare well elsewhere and therefore there is little point in wasting more than a couple of sentences on him in this contribution.
His candidacy is like a car with a knocked engine. It is doomed from the start regardless of his joint candidacy with Rabiu Kwankwaso who I fear has destroyed his hitherto outstanding political career by betraying his heritage and aligning with a man like Peter.
Many have said that Atiku Abubakar will sweep the North.
I have lived in the North for the last 23 years and I assure you that they are wrong.
There is no doubt that the Wazirin Adamawa once had a hold in certain parts of the region but things have changed over the last few years.
After so many failed attempts to become President and his constant betrayal of those that brought him to political relevance like President Obasanjo and those that welcomed him into their ranks with open arms and gave him a platform when he was on the ropes like President Buhari and President Tinubu he has lost credibility, relevance and steam.
Worse of all is the fact that ever since 2007 when he left office as Vice President he has dedicated his life to ensuring that power remains in the North and has contested virtually every election either at the primary or party level to stop the South from enjoying power.
Thankfully the North now has a new set of leaders who have acquitted themselves well, who give meaning to the word loyalty who have proved to the world that their region has not only come of age but has also overtaken much of the rest of the country in terms of development and first class leadership.
Names like Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senator Abdul Azeez Yari, Governor Uba Sani, Governor Dauda Lawal, Governor Mai Mala Buni and others stand out.
These leaders will clip Atiku’s wings and prove to the world that Arewa has a plethora of seasoned and disciplined leaders who, unlike Waziri, are ready to put the interest of the nation before self.
(Chief David Oluwafemi Adewunmi Abdulateef Fani-Kayode, the author of this piece, is Nigeria’s Ambassador Designate to South Africa, a former Minister of Culture and Tourism, a former Minister of Aviation, a former Senior Special Assistant and Spokesman to President Olusegun Obasanjo, the Sadaukin Shinkafi, the Wakilin Doka Potiskum, the Otunba of Joga Orile, the Aare Ajagunla of Otun Ekiti and a Legal Practioner) writes from Abuja, Nigeria
