President Tinubu has been forewarned not to renounce the backing of prominent characters like Nasir El-Rufai and Yahaya Bello by Segun Sowunmi, a former spokesman for former PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.
Showumi expressed concerns about treachery and the erosion of trust within political circles.
El-Rufai and Bello campaigned for Tinubu’s victory in 2023, but faced political challenges and perceived neglect from his government.
Sowunmi depicts disillusionment, highlighting the gap between promises and actions, while El-Rufai, a Tinubu supporter, faces a security report threatening his credibility.
However, Sowunmi challenges Tinubu to reassess his political trajectory and legacy
“After contemplating President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s path and ascent to the presidency, I find myself questioning whether my Yoruba uncle remains the same person I have known and admired,” the PDP leader wrote in a statement he signed.
“You might need to think through this to understand me. The Yorubas already carry misconceptions about betrayal, that we don’t keep our end of the bargain. That we use and dump people. That we are cunning around the power play.
Nasir el-Rufai, say what you will about him, he supported Asiwaju fully during the primaries and the general elections. Pray, how has he been treated? Same el-Rufai now has a security report that humiliated him during a Senate clearance made up of a majority of Tinubu men! What would the world call that but betrayal?
“Now, Yahaya Adoza Bello, who practically fought like a madman to give Asiwaju good numbers in Kogi, not to talk of how he funded and ran the youth campaign with vigour and energy to the extent that I was so jealous compared to the disorganised charade of my PDP.
Same Yahaya Bello who superintended over the membership registration of APC that to date I cannot but remember comparing the bliss and pageantry to the joke that my PDP ran under the Edo emperor.
“Pray, is that the same GYB that is embarrassed to the level we are all witnessing? If this is not a betrayal, I would like someone to tell me what can be a betrayal than this.
“Do you plan to contest a second term or do you think your work will be done in one term of just four years? Shall tomorrow not come? Where are the men of yesterday?
“Akanni omo olodo ide, you know that on a deep level of nation-building, I won’t allow partisan politics to prevent me from saying it as I see it. You may need to understand that power must be shared and that the world over, people must feel protected by an arrangement they help bring about.”