Thread by @COfficialOgbeni

To understand very well the pictures above, let's first read an excerpt from Babachir Lawal's Interview in a national daily in 2020:

"Mr. Buhari and his supporters had no money to win an election except ideas, zeal, and fanaticism.

Tinubu, who had his tentacles spread across the corporate world, was the only man who knew where and how to raise the funds needed. He was the one that reached out to all the ‘big men’ who were at the time scared of the then President Goodluck Jonathan.

These were all rich men that depended on the government’s patronage. But somehow, Tinubu was able to persuade many of them to support Buhari with enormous funds & logistics.

We had so many experiences, Timipre Sylva (now Minister of State for Petroleum Resources) and I thought we could do it but found out we couldn’t until Tinubu came in into the fundraising proper and we won the election.

Mr. Tinubu spent enormous money out of his pocket to finance the party’s campaign. Mr. Tinubu was responsible for the lobbying & bringing in of a U. S. consultant who handled President Barrack Obama’s campaign and they did the same for Nigeria’s current president, Buhari.

That was when you started seeing Buhari wearing a suit, and in Igbo, Yoruba, and Kanuri attire. It was then people started to see Buhari as a family man with his beautiful daughters. The strategy was to transform his image and show a humane, loving, and trustworthy person.

It helped us. At some point during our strategy sessions, the consultants asked us: why don’t you allow Buhari’s wife to come out so that she can be contrasted with Dame Patience Jonathan?

When you do that, you would have won the election already, he said. She provided a contrast to the former First Lady.”

Now, the first sentence in paragraph 2 of the above excerpt is the key here: "Tinubu, who had his tentacles spread across the corporate world, was the only man who knew where and how to raise the funds needed".

Dangote & Elumelu's visits are not social visits nor coincidence. The two are the biggest Nigerian investors with investments around the world & controlling billions of dollars of international finance capital.

Tinubu is the only man who knows where the domestic & international finance capital needed to develop Nigeria is located.

Nigeria needs a sustained 35 trillion naira investment annually on infrastructures, electricity, education, housing, health, public utilities, agriculture, human capital development & social intervention programs,

etc for the next 10 years unbroken if it must bridge the developmental gap with the developed world. And Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu knows where the development finance capital for this project in Nigeria is.

The Lagos Blue & Red line rail projects, the Eko Atlantic City, the Badagry Deep Sea Port, the Lekki Deep Sea Port & Airport & the 16,500 hectares Lekki Free Zone that is already hosting hundreds of companies & industries including Dangote's largest oil refinery in the world,

a fertilizer plant, a petrochemical plant & a sub-sea gas pipeline project are all mega infrastructures that required hundreds of billions of dollars of international finance capital to accomplish which Tinubu made possible in Lagos.

Imagine therefore for a second, what Tinubu will do in the whole of Nigeria as president.

We don't need a clueless, unprepared & opportunistic trader riding on the doped anger of a headless mentally lazy mob as president of the federal republic.

We don't need a president who takes advice from mad people.
We don't need a president who abandons his duty to go queue up at petrol stations to buy fuel for his convoy.

Nigeria cannot afford a clueless president who instead of going to look for the 35 trillion nairas needed annually to bridge our development gap, will bury the little money we sold from oil in Fidelity Bank in the name of savings & call it achievement,

then come on national tv to cry daily about where to get money for workers' salaries.
Nigeria at this critical time does not need a crook president who instead of going to look for the 35 trillion Naira Nigeria needs annually to bridge our development gap & create jobs,

will rather sink the little money Nigeria earns from oil into his family business including his family breweries & call it an investment.

Nigeria needs Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu - the only man who has his tentacles spread across the entire corporate world,

the only man who knows where & how to raise the funds needed for Nigeria's development.

By Michael Ogueke #MO
Edited by Olaoluwa Aremo