For the sake of our country: An open advice to President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu (Part one)
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By Umar Ardo, Ph.D PREAMBLE First, let me seize this opportunity to congratulate Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his well-deserved victory in an unarguably about the most keenly contested presidential election in Nigeria’s history. For me personally, I feel fulfilled in that the incipient seed of this outcome was sown by my humble self way back in January, 2012, when I conceived the idea of the merger between Buhari’s CPC and Tinubu’s ACN, premised on the former being President and the latter Vice President. Aware of the previous failed attempt for such a merger, I sold the idea to Buhari in such a way and manner that I was confident he would accept. Even though he had then publicly announced that 2011 would be his 3rd and final attempt to contest for the presidency if he lost that year’s election, it turned out easy for me to get his buy-in to the idea as within three hours he consented and promised me of approaching Tinubu with the plan. I then knew my job was done as I was certain Tinubu too would consent to it.
For the sake of our country: An open advice to President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu (Part one)
For the sake of our country: An open advice…
For the sake of our country: An open advice to President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu (Part one)
By Umar Ardo, Ph.D PREAMBLE First, let me seize this opportunity to congratulate Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his well-deserved victory in an unarguably about the most keenly contested presidential election in Nigeria’s history. For me personally, I feel fulfilled in that the incipient seed of this outcome was sown by my humble self way back in January, 2012, when I conceived the idea of the merger between Buhari’s CPC and Tinubu’s ACN, premised on the former being President and the latter Vice President. Aware of the previous failed attempt for such a merger, I sold the idea to Buhari in such a way and manner that I was confident he would accept. Even though he had then publicly announced that 2011 would be his 3rd and final attempt to contest for the presidency if he lost that year’s election, it turned out easy for me to get his buy-in to the idea as within three hours he consented and promised me of approaching Tinubu with the plan. I then knew my job was done as I was certain Tinubu too would consent to it.