A pro-Tinubu/Shetima group, the Patriots Roundtable, has lauded the victory of Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the just concluded presidential election, calling on him for effective and efficient service delivery when he assumes office.
The director general of the group, Prince Uthman Shodipe-Dosumu, while speaking at a press conference and presentation of the 16th edition of the group’s newsletter titled “Tinubu: Against All Odds in Lagos State”, said that “the unpredictable change of fate is always unknown to the one who professes the profound grasp of the will of the gods.”
“Though Tinubu has triumphed despite the implacable odds, the victory is the beginning of his race like in the days of old when he was freshly minted at the acme of the Lagosian leadership,” he added.
He charged the President-elect to look beyond the cocoon of immediate time-servers, reaching far and beyond the Nigerian isle for the best and the brightest to mend the broken places, rectify the obvious wrongs, change the disintegrating pathways, listen to the plurality of views with the engaging grip to renew the Nigerian hope.
“Why one man must grapple with ceaseless hurdles, collide against the worst furies, manacled and chained by the bounds of Heaven are still the deepest mysteries of existence.
“And yet others race through the concourse of life without the least struggle, without the faintest intimations of challenges.
“Is it that the stars are rigged even in their supposed corpus of neutrality against some of us ? Is it that the Heavens are naturally impartial, distant and unfair, sheltering their favourites from the storms, turning their back in disinterested promptings from the rest of us?
“Either way, truth be told, some are subjected to constant hindering and obstacles, lashed by a seemingly arbitrary whip of a crude and impossible fate.
“They are hated and abused, trampled and forfeited on the altar of malignity. A thousand deceit is conjured upon their way. The dark grouping of animadversion is woven on their path.
“Their character is suborned, maligned by the contrivances of evil. They are trapped, harangued by the agents of duplicity and the founts of odious envy.
“And being human, entrapped by such endless embattlement, they must sometimes withdraw, quake and quiver in their own confines, inquiring of Heaven about the imbalance in their little cordon of life,” he philosophized.
He emphasized that Tinubu can read through the shenanigans of transient favor seekers a thousand miles away. But he may choose to remain mute but not indifferent, certified in his own assertions despite the temptings of belittled time servers.
“Tinubu has now reached an incredible height of the presidency of this great nation. Nothing can diminish this personal achievement. He has reached this height not because of the prodding and the assistance of man.
“Tinubu has defeated the furies of fate not because of personal perfection. Asiwaju has reached this very ennobling height because of some inner nudging that no man can begrudge.
“The Jagaban Borgu keeps no malice or lingering enmity. He knows the enemy. He can read through the tableau of mischief and assert his own will.
“Tinubu has gone through the furnace and the furies of fate. His triumph is made. His victory is real. He must now guide like a true shepherd, discerning and hopeful, guiding with the unifying kindness, shining the brightness of the healing light upon this frayed union.
“The presidential election has been won and lost. The great powers of the world have affirmed its validity. Those who feel aggrieved can seek redress in the courts. This nation must move forward.
“Democracy is never an arrival. It is always a continuous process. The Greek began with the Agora where virtually everyone was part of the legislative assembly. The Romans widened it to an exclusive assembly. The Americans graduated the process to a representative caucus.
“This nation is still evolving. It is imperfect, but it is rectifying its own flaws. Let us move forward,” he urged.
