National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
on Tuesday told Ogun central senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu to keep his
“fake praise singing.
In a statement signed by Sunday Dare, Media
Adviser to Tinubu, he said: “Our attention has been drawn to the
recently advertised letter by Mr. Buruji Kashamu to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
in which he described Tinubu in superlative terms and as his role model.
Kashamu needs to stop this cynical fawning. It will not work.
“The
days of false adulation 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.
“Henceforth, there will be consequences for the positions a politician takes and the words they utter,” the statement said.
“Politcians
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 of posturing.
“That
Kashamu undermined the democratic process by buying his victory does
not mean he is part of the new Nigeria. He is merely an isolated vestige
of a dying past. The man is an extinct species, the realization of
which will soon dawn on him.
“For him to liken himself to Bola
Tinubu is for a small rut to call itself a mountain. For Kashamu to call
Tinubu a role model is kashamu ‘s admission that he does not know the
meaning of the term.
“There are no grounds for comparison. There is only contrast. Tinubu
has sacrificed years trying to bring democracy to Nigeria. He struggled
in opposition to the powers that be.
“Without this, at times,
lonesome fight and singular determination, the great change in Nigerian
politics would not have happened as it did. TInubu is an architect of
democracy. Kashamu is a failed demolisher of that which Tinubu has
strived to build. Under Kashamu’s designs, our elections would be a
wholly mercantile undertaking.
“Meanwhile, Kashamu has blown
wherever the prevailing winds took him. He stood for nothing and
sacrificed nothing except the people’s welfare.
“This same Kashamu
rained insults on former President Obasanjo in a vicious campaign of
calumny. Kashamu’s party, PDP sponsored defamatory documentaries full of
lies and innuendos against me, General Muhammadu Buhari and other
leaders of APC.
“Please keep your peace until you make your trip
to the USA as a Senator elect. Upon your return we can then have a
conversation. We can then proceed with your repudiation of the PDP with a
promise that you will stop corrupting and fouling the political system.
“That
Kashamu would compare himself with Tinubu is a distasteful insult to
Tinubu and to anyone who knows Nigerian politics. If he has any sense of
propriety, Kashamu should retract the corrupt missive and apologize for
this latest lie to the public.
“Kashamu is in a factory of
incoherent mischief aimed at achieving selfish goals. Before the
election, Tinubu was his archenemy. Now he seeks to be the prodigal son
that returned hone. This scam will fail. “Kashamu may be prodigal but he is no political son of Tinubu. Kashamu’s
political lineage tracks to people like Bode George and President
Jonathan. He should direct his encomiums to these men who are his true
role models. They need his contrived affections more than Tinubu does” “Kashamu may be prodigal but he is no political son of Tinubu. Kashamu’s
political lineage tracks to people like Bode George and President
Jonathan. He should direct his encomiums to these men who are his true
role models. They need his contrived affections more than Tinubu does”
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