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National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday rejected the overtures from Senator-elect Buruji Kashamu.
Kashamu, SouthWest Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Contact and Mobilization Committee chairman, last week in an advertorial, described Tinubu in superlative terms after funding hate advertorial against the former Lagos state governor before the elections.
In a statement from his Media Office titled: ‘I do not need your praise’ and signed by his media adviser Sunday Dare, Tinubu 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.
“Politicians 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 Kashumu 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 realisation 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.
“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 (Olusegun) Obasanjo in a vicious campaign of calumny. Kashamu’s party, the PDP, sponsored defamatory documentaries full of lies and innuendos against Tinubu, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and other leaders of the 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 deign to 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 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 returned home. 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 (Goodluck ) 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 is knocking on the wrong door at the wrong house at the wrong time.
“Tinubu is a patriotic, law-abiding Nigerian whose achievements make him world-renowned. “He is also global citizen who travels freely to the USA, UK, and other nations. He associates with individuals who seek the democracy and good governance for all. He does not spend time with characters whose values are at variance with societal expectations and laws governing a decent society.
“Everyone should disregard Kasahmu’s foray of mercenary and vain praise. It was but the futile attempt of one of our nation’s chief villains to look into the mirror and imagine himself as one of the nation’s heroes. On top of being bad, it seems Kashamu has also gone convoluted in thinking.”
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