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¨Ijaw leader and former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has upbraided the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, describing him as someone that is afraid of his identity.
Clark also accused Tinubu of denying the Yorubas of their political identity with the formation of the APC.
In a letter addressed to Tinubu by his legal adviser, Mr. Kayode Ajulo, Clark asked the national leader of the APC to answer the following questions: “Why is he not in a hurry to clear questions on his real identity? Is it true that he has no faint trace of the famed Tinubu blood in his veins? Is it true that he is ashamed of his real ancestors and family heritage?
According to him, “Tinubu must clear the air by telling Nigerians where his biological parents are buried, either in Lagos where he claims or in Irigbaji, Osun State or in ‘Oke Oya’ in the North.” â¨
Clark said Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe had once taken Tinubu, to task on some of these issues especially the schools he claimed to have attended and his educational qualifications.
“Some went further to say that he keeps evolving and re-writing his biodata to mask his real identity, family deficiencies and educational attainments. And that though he regularly attempts to obliterate his past life, he however grew up with people, they are alive and they know him inside out. He cannot escape from his shadow.
“It is only in a country like Nigeria that somebody with forged academic qualifications will become a governor and pretend to be the leader of a leading sophisticated community.
The late legal luminary, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN) instituted a court action challenging, Tibubu’s academic qualifications which was discovered to be forged. That case of perjury like the sword of Damocles still dangles over his head. His immunity then as governor and the death of Chief Fawehinmi stalled the case. The former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has this to say about Bola Tinubu in a speech at the University of Ibadan on August 13, 2013: “The man claimed he went to Government College, Ibadan, but the governor (Oyo State) went to Government College and packed all the documents so that they would not know that he did not go there,” Clark said.
¨He further said: “But it is not yet Uhuru for Tinubu. His supposed alma maters, Government College, Ibadan and the University of Chicago refuted his claim of studentship. So, where did Tinubu obtain his qualifications?”
Clark said Tinubu’s rapacious quest for vain glory knows no limit, saying, “He has acquired all sorts of titles… Tinubu, crowned his daughter the Iyaloja of Lagos, a position that is not inherited but made for a seasoned market woman leader.His wife, Remi Tinubu is a senator representing Lagos, at the National Assembly.
He installed his son in-law as a member of House of Representatives and other family members into various positions of influence. No wonder there are documents titled “Tinubu is Lagos” flying everywhere attesting to his exploitation of Lagos.
Why must Lagos State that parades a galaxy of titans, both in the academia and business be so saddled by a collection of minions and lilliputians of Bola Tinubu’s immediate family? This indeed is shameful and a great disservice to the people of Lagos State,” the letter to Tinubu stated.
The Ijaw leader accused Tinubu of denying the Yorubas of political identity, saying, “due to his naked self-interest, he denied the Yoruba the Speaker’s slot in the House of Representatives that today for the first time in the history of Nigeria, Yoruba is not in the Nigeria political first eleven in order of protocol.
“While he rode on the crest of the Afenifere treasured political baby, the Alliance for Democracy (AD), to govern Lagos State for two terms, his systematic destruction and replacement of the AD with ACN was a choreograph design to decimate what had become distinctively the Yoruba political identity.
“Tinubu driven with morbid quest for power had further completely destroyed the ACN with the so-called merger with other parties to form the APC. The Yoruba today, are without distinct political identity, courtesy of Tinubu unbridled power quest. This is corroborated by the Ooni of Ife, “If Papa Awolowo had not taken that decision to form that (AG) political party that governed Western Nigeria at that time, we would probably have lost our identity as a race by now.
“It is to the glory and sweet memory of Chief Obafemi Awolowo that several companies and corporation were owned by the Yoruba under O’dua conglomerate. There is need to ask therefore, what are the legacies Bola Tinubu left in Lagos State? We need to ask these salient questions? Who appropriated all government choice properties in Ikoyi and Victoria Island to himself? Is Oriental Hotel and Television Continental and other business organisations owned by the Yoruba or by an individual?” Clark’s letter asked.
