December 06, (THEWILL) – A Pro-Tinubu/Shettima Ticket Support Group, Patriots Roundtable, has called on the presidential candidates in the 2023 elections, to campaign with ideas, visionary candour, commitment to nation-building and service, rather than mingling in the dirty pool of calumny.
The Group, in the 8th series of its newsletter, titled: ‘Beyond Chattam’, made available to the media on Tuesday and signed by its National Coordinator, Prince Uthman Shodipe-Dosunmu, said malice does not win elections.
It said rather planning, legacy, and selfless commitment to the nation invariably decide the path to victory.
“Now that Chatham has gone and is gradually being subsumed by other matters, we may now return to the persistent, unyielding reality: the fact that Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the most dominant issue in this presidential campaign. We acknowledge this with all sense of humility and riveting approbation.
“When a presidential candidate is the pivot of manufactured malice when the candidate is the subject of untidy and undeserved opprobrium when the candidate is the conjured ogre haunting the conscience of malignant characters- it is safe to attest that the candidate is of immense political value and importance that the nay-sayers find it convenient to pull down”, Patriots Roundtable said.
The Group said in truth, Tinubu has worked hard for his towering political magnification.
It said, “He has earned his reputation and national stamp of political veneration from endless, untiring support for others; from his instinctive willingness to groom a multifarious gallery of lieutenants, mentoring, graduating a powerful array of mentees into the highest acme of power in our nation and far beyond.
“From the stretches of the howling desert of Jigawa to the mangroves of the Delta, from the Sudanian Savanna of Bauchi to the forest and the hills of Ondo, from Ekiti to the shores of the Atlantic in Lagos – Tinubu, like Tennyson tells us, has “become a name.”
“Intrinsic in the Tennysonian affirmation is the kindling of a stout heart, the stubborn, unyielding commitment to a good cause, the unfailing creative ardour, the powerful visionary steadfastness, unbowed and unbowing before the slings of hate and animadversion.
“Pray how many men can absorb the thronging barrage of calumny, the callous spate of hate, the crude eructation of venom without crumbling and folding up?
“We do believe that there is a guiding star in all our firmament. We do agree that everyone is defined ultimately in some unfathomable womb of Heaven that none can alter.
“As the days roll by and the election draws nearer, destiny beckons for Asiwaju. More often, power is thrust upon those who seek it not. For 22 years Tinubu has been much more comfortable behind the scene galvanising others to the upper echelon of power. He is now drafted by fate to contest for the greatest office in the land. If it is God’s will, no mortal can alter this recourse.”
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AYO ESAN, has been actively reporting and analyzing political events for different newspapers for over 18 years. He has also successfully covered national and state elections in Nigeria since the inception of this democracy in 1999.
