The Statement by Bola Tinubu After Buhari’s Running Mate Emerged! Says “I Serve The Nation “
His statement had lots of grammar as usual trust Asiwaju
Bola Ahmed Tinubu for he never fails. He spoke about his withdrawal from
consideration for the APC Vice- Presidential Position.
I am a Nigerian who loves his country and am hopeful about
what it can become. I have seen and conducted myself as a patriot long before I
thought of myself as a politician. I shall always walk this line and no
other.
After all the political calculations are made and the dust
of competition has settled, it must be this nation and its people who stand
first and foremost. The question becomes whether we stand strong, able to shape
ourselves into our best future or will we stand frail and trembling, burdened
by the abject failure to surmount the multiple problems confronting us.
It against this backdrop that I assess any action I take.
Here I come to my name being placed in consideration as the Vice Presidential
candidate for our party, the APC. I have labored hard to move this party
from being merely an idea in the minds of a few into being a political
organization that might win this election and govern the nation in way that
gives the people the hope and opportunity they seek. Nothing is more important
to me than to realize this dream not for myself but for the people of this land
I so love.
I helped to build this party, giving no thought to seeking
an elected office because of it. My contribution to the party was never based
on the expectation of a later political handout. Nigeria is in trouble and we
are well past the moment for such narrow, selfish games.
There came a time during the course of the events when our
Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari offered the Vice Presidential slot
to me. Being a normal human being, I was deeply moved and honored that he
would consider me for the position. Being a patriot, I had to weigh my
potential candidacy in all of its dimensions.
I have concluded that the interest of the party, our
campaign and of the nation are better served if I retain my position as the
National leader of the APC, allowing me to be a bridge builder across all
divides. Although, I declined the position, I want to
thank General Buhari for extending the honor to me. Despite all the noise and
opposition around my possible selection, he stood firm and steadfast.
He showed the traits of a leader in holding to a decision he
believed was right despite the errant plots against it.
When my name was raised, the political hatchet men tried to
chop it down with rumor and lies. Over the years, I have developed a thick
skin. The personal attacks did not bother me. I am used to them.
While I have a thick skin, I don’t have a thick mind.
There has been one form of attack that has troubled me. That is the attack
based on religion. The PDP and others have stoked fear of a Muslim- Muslim
ticket.
I have removed myself from consideration so what I now say
cannot be seen as self-serving. I plead with the people of this nation to
never allow the power lust of cynical politicians to set brother against
brother, neighbor against neighbor. If you look at those politicians who raise
this issue the most, they are the least devout and faithful to any religion
other their self-interests.
Nigeria has too many secular problems – insecurity,
economic collapse, poverty , corruption and misgovernance – to allow inept
people to use religion to keep us from solving these challenges for
the benefit of all.
Those who exploit religion should be wary. For there really
is a God and he does not like it when you play with his people or use His name
to do the opposite of what He intends.
I ask the people to remove religion from the electoral
equation now that the tickets of both parties are mixed. I ask you to select
the ticket best able to end the downward slide that Nigeria has endured
since this government took over. I ask you to remember that
too many Christians and Muslims are poor. Most of all, I ask you to remember
that the true religion of the PDP is poverty, APC come to bring
prosperity to the people. Please vote for that.
The Nigeria I see is a nation that shall overcome. The
Nigeria I see is a nation ready to sweep aside the broken ways of our recent
past and the government and politicians who impose distress upon us.
The Nigeria I see and seek is one where each person, every
man, woman and child may live free of terrorism, free of the despair of poverty
and free of the fear that the government meant to serve and protect them has
turned its back to them in cold and utter indifference.
I see and seek a Nigeria where progressive democratic
governance creates the political and economic space needed for each of us to
contribute to rescuing and retooling this nation. And, in the process
of this benign endeavor, may each and every one of us share
in the sound promise and good prosperity that shall describe the architecture
of our national revival.
However, not everyone that shouts the name of Nigeria
believes in this vision. There are many who would have you laid low and our
future tossed asunder that they may persist in reaping the unjust reward of
their selfish ways. There are wolves in sheep clothing and even jackals in
wolf’s clothing. I have seen them but not as residents in some strange zoo. They
populate the halls of this diminished
government and the party from which this government was
born.
We have come to the field of fateful choice. We have been
brought to test the scales of weighty decision. Shall we lift this nation
upward so that from its higher vantage point we may clearly see the road to our
better destiny? Or shall we continue to march the march of fools into the dark
of darkness.
The current path has but one end. It shall take us into the
den of national collapse. We have gone far enough down this wicked avenue to be
aware of what its continuance portends.
We must awaken of our own accord, my dear people, before the
bell of doom rings upon us. If we wait until that moment, we would have waited
too long. Our future, our fate, our destiny would have been cast into the snare
of utter misfortune. This is not the song of greatness. It
is the poetics of ruin.
For me, political ambition will never triumph over patriotic
conviction. This delicate moment affords no space for emotion to intrude to
blind us from what is best. The APC is the best and only
vehicle to enact the progressive and broad change this
nation cries for. I eagerly lend myself to this fine cause without me having to
be on the ticket.
This is a time for cohesion and an overriding sense of
mission. We must defeat the foe before us and resist all temptations intended
to entice us to fight among ourselves.
I sincerely commit myself to the rescue agenda of General
Buhari and Professor Osinbajo.
I declare to you, I will work and dedicate myself so that
our ticket succeeds and wins the 2015 election -- not for his good, not for my
good, not even for the party’s good but for the good of the nation we inhabit.
Some may call what I have done a sacrifice. I call it
otherwise. It is my patriotic contribution and duty. I do so with a happy and
uplifted heart and clear conscience because I have committed myself to seeking
the best for this nation before seeking what is good for myself. This is the
creed of statesmanship I chose to follow. May this be the creed of our party as
General Buhari leads us to historic victory in the 2015 elections.
May the light of a bright future always shine on you and on
our beloved nation, the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
-Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
December 17th, 2014
Source: .ladunliadinews
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