A saying that ”If family members leave a room after a supposed fact finding discussion are smiling, then one party or all parties involved were economic with the truth” played out today on a southwest Nigeria journalist online platform called ”Nigeria Platform”.
The platform comprising contributors from various media houses including AP, NAN, ThisDay, and a host of online publishers had for critique who best to become Nigeria’s next President. This discuss is undoubtedly the topic of the day in various online platforms.
This platform saturated with veteran and seasoned journalists didn’t spare on the much predicted paradigm shift expected in Nigeria’s polity.
Of particular interest was a comment by a ThisDay staff, where he postulated a position that exonerated Governor Fayemi from the unfounded tagging as a Yoruba betrayal; when Abiodunborisade.com (also media aide to Governor Fayemil expressed support for a statement credited to the ThisDay staff (quoted below), it became a no holds bar debate:
”Exactly my position. Whoever is supporting Tinubu should do that on his records not based on tribal affiliation.
It amounts to sophistry and intellectual fraud to project Tinubu as a Yoruba candidate that should be supported by the Yoruba.
Some of us still remember the role he and his ACN played in the emergence of Tambuwal as House of Representatives Speaker at the expense of Hon. Mulikat Adeola-Akande. We still remember his where are the cows rhetoric.
Tinubu is eminently qualified to run for the presidency. But nobody should project him as a Yoruba candidate.”
Another contributor to the discuss wrote:
”They should leave #Yoruba alone. Buy ticket and contest without linking any tribal sentiment!”
The ThisDay staff again in total high moral grounds wrote:
”You see the problem? So, Fayemi isn’t Yoruba?
He must be destroyed for Tinubu to thrive?”
The debate also brought into focus the role and even body language of political gladiators of Yoruba extract towards the Tinubu aspiration and the perceived foisted yoruba agenda.
Clearly if going by the submissions of the contributors, all is not well with the so called Yoruba agenda solidarity for Tinubu presidency.