Presidency not for Tinubu type – Adeyeye

Professor Olusola Adeyeye has stated that Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader and a presidential aspirant in the party’s 2023 general election, is not the kind to rule Nigeria.

Prof. Adeyeye, who served two terms as a senator representing Osun Central Senatorial District from 2011 to 2019, made this claim on a political radio show in Ibadan on Saturday.

“I am making bold to say anyone still looking at Tinubu as the guy to beat isn’t reading the tea leaves properly,” Adeyeye, who was the chairman of Rauf Aregbesola’s second term re-election campaign in 2014, said.

“Tinubu is already unravelling publicly and even a lot of those who ordinarily would have loved to support him are right now having a rethink the more of him they see. He has proved to be gaffe-prone and certainly unhealthy.

“The Southern electorate is very sophisticated and none more so than the section of the electorate in the South-West. There is a reason he has been christened ‘Baba Alagbado’ and it is not for political sagacity!

“Time catches up with everybody and it has caught up with Tinubu. It takes those who truly love him, not sycophants, to tell him that it’s time to go stretch out on some lush lawns and play with his grandchildren.

“The Presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is not for his type.”