"You're An Isolated Vestige Of A Dying Past"-Tinubu Blasts Kashamu

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It looks like the business of bootlicking and sycophancy is winding up in Nigeria. The business that became lucrative under President Goodluck Jonathan's administration suffered a setback this week when Mr Bola Tinubu, the most influential power figure of the APC refused to be hoodwinked by the encomiums showered on him by a political scavenger and apostle of do or die politics in Ogun State, one Buruji Kashamu. According to the statement signed by Tinubu's media adviser Mr Sunday Dare obtained by Kay Ola News correspondent, Tinubu rejected the deceitful toga of honour being draped on him by Kashamu. In the statement, Tinubu said, "for Kashamu to liken himself to Bola Tinubu is for a small rut to call itself a mountain." "For Kashamu to call Tinubu a role model is Kashamu's admission that he does not know the meaning of the term. There are no grounds for comparison. There is only contrast. Tinubu has sacrificed years trying to bring democracy yo Nigeria." Tinubu who was not enthralled by Kashamu's sanctimonious facade further stated, "Kashamu needs to stop this cynical fawning. It will not work. The days of false adulation are gone in Nigerian politics. Fake praise singers like Kashamu will find that their particular craft is no longer in vogue." During this election cycle, their practice has dramatically turned from the way things are to how things used to be." "Henceforth, there will be consequences for positions a politician takes and the words they utter." Politicians will no longer be able to change direction and loyalties as if they were changing clothes. Those in politics must know that responsibility and accountability shall now follow them. One can no longer walk both sides of the street at the same time. In case Kashamu has not noticed, the politics of principles defeated the politics of posturing" "That Kashamu undermined the democratic process by buying his victory does not mean he is part of the new Nigeria. He is merely an isolated vestige of a dying past. The man is an extinct species, the realization of which will soon dawn on him." "Kashamu has blown wherever the prevailing winds took him. He stood for nothing and sacrificed nothing except the people's welfare." Kashamu is knocking on the wrong door at the wrong house at the wrong time."

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