*Warns Oshiomhole against demarketing Buhari
*Says ex-Edo governor should leave Issa-Onilu to do his job
Lagos-based media practitioner, Mr. Babajide Kolade-Otitoju, has thrown his weight behind the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari in the coming February, 2019 general elections.
Otitoju, a newspaper journalist, editor and public affairs commentator, stated this Thursday on a television programme anchored in Lagos.
Precisely speaking as regular respondent on Television Continental (TVC) Journalists’ Hangout programme, the senior editor was baring his mind on the attacks by All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, on former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Governor of Imo State, Chief Rochas Okorocha and Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun.
The deep-rooted discussant said it was unbecoming of Oshiomhole to tell Obasanjo that “God will punish him” for supporting Atiku Abubakar, adding that, “He doesn’t need to talk” and, by talking all the time the way the APC chairman was doing, Otitoju said he was demarking President Buhari.
He acknowledged the simplicity of politics that President Muhammadu Buhari play, pointing out the way the he continues to use beautiful and kind words talking Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, so much that he even congratulated him on his birthday recently and would never use vulgar language against him.
“Here we are talking about the man he (Buhari) defeated”, Babajide said.
“That is why we continue to support the President because, Buhari has his own weaknesses but, he has qualities that you cannot find in any of these pretenders who are struggling hard to be President”, he Kolade-Otitoju said.
He also took a swipe at the former Edo State governor to, rather than do things which breaks the ranks of APC, embrace truce, adding that “to call the bluff of people like Okorocha and Amosun will be a big mistake that a party chairman like Oshiomhole will ever make.
Telling the party chairman to speak less and allow the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, to do his job, Kolade-Otitoju said “many people would want to listen to you more when you don’t speak all the times than when you talk always and your talking will no longer be relevant”.
He reminded Oshiomhole that Okorocha and Amosun that he called political liabilities are both two-term governors who won elections not only on the strength of APC but also in All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) respectively.
“If he wants to talk about winning on the strength of APC, no. These two governors are not small fries. Okorocha won as APGA candidate to become governor of Imo State before he recontested and won as APC governor. Amosun had won election as Senator on PDP platform before he won, again, two times as governor.
“To now say that these governors are political liabilities will be a big mistake.” He said, adding that the way the party chairman is doing, he is not even allowing the governors to concentrate on Buhari’s victory and warned that Buhari should call Oshiomhole to order as, according to him, “who does Buhari needs now if not these governors in their respective states?”
Another interlocutor on the television programme said,“If Buhari needs 25 percent in Imo, he needs Okorocha more than anybody else. If he needs 90 percent in Ogun State, he needs Amosun more than anybody else. So, Oshiomhole should cool down and better reconcile now and get those governors together with him.”
In one of the tweets on his twitter handle, Otitoju had said this about his love, beyond being a journalist, for President Buhari
“God has given President Muhammadu Buhari popularity that money cannot buy. He should for the sake of his integrity and the love people have for him, look at Obasanjo’s letter and address major issues raised therein.”
Otitoju is a journalist, historian, polemicist and patriot with varied experience in both the print and electronic media.
