Senator Shehu Sani Advises Bola Tinubu To Learn From Abiola’s Travails

 

The former senator, who represented Kaduna Central at the Eighth Senate, Shehu Sani, has warned Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to be careful in his dealings with northerners, especially their elite, saying that most of them are hypocrites that would pull him down in his presidential ambition.

Sani, while shedding light on his recent tweet to Tinubu on his 69th birthday where he advised the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to get someone he trusts to always translate what they said in Hausa whenever he visits the North, said majority of the common people in the North do not support the touted presidential ambition of Tinubu in 2023.

He requested Tinubu to study from the ordeals of past due Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola who, despite his assist and achievement within the North, ended up being sabotaged by way of northerners.

Sani, who spoke in Osogbo, the previous day, claimed that what northern elite tell Tinubu in English language isn't what they say in Hausa and burdened the want for the previous Lagos State governor to get a Hausa language translator each time he visits the North.

He stated that not unusual human beings inside the North were no longer in help of Tinubu to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari and suggested him to move returned to the drafting board and see how he should advantage help in the North.

He said: “Well, the person of Asiwaju is the one I know within the area of conflict. He became one of these within the war for the recovery of democracy and additionally a leading determine inside the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) even as I turned into part of the combat for democracy. We worked together for MKO’s venture and for the resistance towards the annulment.

“I realize him in my opinion. But what I tweeted is greater of a Biblical/Shakespearian allegory or some thing it is easy to use in sending message to a person and what I am trying to mention is that as he's allegedly shifting closer to contesting for the presidency, he must try and know the actual feeling on ground as a ways as North is involved because I recognise what Abiola went via.

“Abiola served the North extra than some other businessman from the western a part of Nigeria. He published the Quran and shared it to many Muslims. He donated houses and empowered human beings; he supported teachers and non secular clerics. Abiola turned into one of these obsessed with the unity of Nigeria because of the harmony among the South-West and the northern a part of Nigeria. But how did he end up? They (northerners) conspired against him and sabotaged him and on the give up of the day, he had gone.”

When asked whether or not he could be helping Tinubu while he finally throws his hat inside the ring in contesting the 2023 presidential election, the previous lawmaker said: “If my People’s Redemption Party (PRP) adopts him, I will help him.”