A former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Muyiwa Thomas Fadeyi, has thrown his weight behind the leadership of the national Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, stating that Tinubu has re-directed Yoruba politics and put the south-west in the main-stream of national politics in the country.
Fadeyi who represented Mushin constituency II from 1999 to 2003, disclosed this in Lagos on Sunday, urging the entire Yoruba race to rally round Tinubu and give him their unflinching support in his set-programme of further enhancing the vantage position the western region recently occupies within the Nigerian political setting.
“Ordinarily, I refrain from commenting on issues that are controversial in nature, but l am now being forced to comment because those who are in a position to intervene when things seem to be going wrong but decide to keep quiet, are themselves culpable when eventually the walls come down collapsing,” Fadeyi said, adding that he is particularly bothered by the controversy that trailed the recently concluded local government election especially in Mushin which he described as unnecessary.
“What goes around comes around; most of the people shouting imposition are themselves past beneficiaries of imposition. That’s the truth,” Fadeyi asserted, noting that in years past, the Yoruba people had always been in opposition while the other tribes enjoy the spoil of controlling the federal government, especially during the first and second republic.
“Indeed, at the inception of the present dispensation, despite the fact that a Yoruba man in the person of former President Olusegun Obasanjo was the president, a large percentage of the states in western region were in opposition, including our beloved Lagos State, Tinubu redirected the western region politics and what we have now is a situation where you have the Yoruba at the thick of things in Abuja we even have a Yoruba man as Vice-President.
“To my mind, Asiwaju is a personality that should be respected and put in the highest esteem by every right thinking Yoruba man and other Nigerians. It is therefore appalling to read how fellow Yoruba men write rubbish about Tinubu. If the ladder they used to get to the top is weak, they should rally round such ladder and make it stronger,” Fadeyi said.
He noted that the people complaining have no knowledge about how the politics of Lagos works, adding that. “Asiwaju Tinubu used eight years as governor and he came out of Lagos West. Former governor Babatunde Fashola came out from Lagos Central and used another eight years. Currently, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is in the saddle from Lagos East and nothing stops him from using his own eight years.
“Consequently, my advice to those grumbling is to take it easy and wait for their turn; only Almighty God puts and removes one from position of power,” Fadeyi concluded.
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