Former Minister for Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe has described APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as an
“extremely clever person” who installed the President, Vice President, Senate President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives for eight years.
He stated this while defending his decision to make peace with a man with whom he had been at loggerheads for many years.
Ogunlewe, who was a Minister under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of President Olusegun Obasanjo, decamped to the APC in May 2019 and made peace with his former political foe.
On different occasions before this, the ex-minister had said Tinubu’s real name was Sangodele and that he hailed from Osun State and not Lagos.
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Asked if his views about Tinubu had changed since they settled their differences, Ogunlewe told Sunday Punch, “Times have changed. That was my perception at that time but the man has outsmarted everybody.
“He’s an extremely clever person and you have to study him, either to criticise him or to love him. If you are not discerning and you cannot see facts, you will be having the same thoughts that you had of him ten years ago.
“Honestly, I am so perplexed about the way he has been able to perform this magic. I didn’t believe it but he has done so. Who in the entire country can install the President, the Vice-President, the Senate President and the Speaker? For eight years? One person! Don’t you think there is something in that person we have to admire?
“He would determine who was going to be governor of Imo State; Yobe State; Ogun State, Osun State, and he would be correct.
“He would determine who was going to be ministers and those people would be appointed. He would determine who was going to get appointed as ambassador and such persons would get it.
“Whether you like him or you hate him, just focus on his person. How has he been able to get to this level? That is what is amazing to me.
“You see people groping in the dark: he is this, he is that, but the man has moved on. Are you going to sit down with your frustration? The man doesn’t even know that you are frustrated.
“This man, one single person, installed a presidency in Nigeria. Who has done so before? He is the rallying point for Nigerian politics today and he has the background of political development; he has the knowledge. Hate him or love him.”
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