".......The destruction of the soul of AD was as a result of Bólá Tinubu wanting to take over the Party from the Elders"
(The above quote was excerpted from Kofoworola Bucknor's interview with Vanguardngr.com in Oct 10th, 2009. And this piece of work is base on that).


Tinubu's Ascend to power is questionable. One would be right if they say that He would not have become a governor were followed and no Local government area's Election was cancelled. What do I mean?

Funsho Williams would have won the primary if the results of one or two local governments had not been cancelled as revealed by Mrs Bucknor. However, as the Results were cancelled, Tinubu who was initially in 2nd place became the winner. The Leaders of AD were skeptical at first mainly because Tinubu was not a member of Afẹ́nífẹ́rè. However, they had no choice, He had been pronounced the winner and so they had to forward His name as their Man and Governorship candidate.

But AD needed someone who is a Member of Afẹ́nífẹ́rè to be in governance because of their laid down structure. Tinubu was not in this structure nor did He fit in it. To have someone who is part of this structure in governance, Kofoworola Bucknor was given the Deputy.

Note that Tinubu didn't help Found the AD party but joined because He needed a platform to contest and the Afẹ́nífẹ́rè at that time would win any election, and that is why Him and Funsho Williams joined them. However, Kofoworola Bucknor was a founding Member. In fact, Mrs Bucknor was the one that went to INEC office twice to register AD as a party.

Tinubu was abroad at the time the Party was created, a supposedly member of the NADECO in diaspora. Claiming to be a Member of NADECO made Tinubu to be accepted into AD.

After AD won the Election, and Tinubu became the governor, and Kofoworola Bucknor became the Deputy, the Elders of AD at the time were not interested in interfering in governance. Their Major interest was to keep the Party as strong as it was and to make sure that those that worked for the party to win the election are properly rewarded regardless of their relationship with the incumbent, Bólá Tinubu.

This was the beginning of the problem. Tinubu wanted to remove all those who weren't loyal to him from power, whether they are loyal to the party or not, He didn't care, as long as they are not loyal to Him.

An Example is that of Ganiyu Dawodu, the then Chairman of AD in Lagos. Ganiyu didn't support Tinubu in primary but rather supported Funsho Williams. This angered Tinubu and When He won, He planned to remove Him and replace Him with His Deputy, Chief Femi Taiwo.

Kofoworola Bucknor kicked against this, another problem started from there. Tinubu started seeing Bucknor as a threat, despite that She was his deputy.

Tinubu started becoming distant toward Bucknor. He wouldn't hand over to Her whenever He is out of the country, nor would He tell Her if He was travelling. Most times, Bucknor always hear from other People that Tinubu had traveled. Without handing over the governance to Her. He always preferred to leave His own people in charge.

All these were not surprising to Bucknor because She knew what Tinubu's plan was. Tinubu had rather unwittingly (or Maybe He thought Bucknor would be loyal to him) revealed that He had an ambition to become Vice President under Atiku in 2007 If the latter run for President (remember Atiku was in PDP?). This means that Tinubu was planning to jump ship. Lmao.

Tinubu revealed this to Bucknor and Lai Muhammad in Kresta Laurel (Gbenga Daniel's office). They were using the office temporarily before they were sworn in. It was after a meeting with some Australian ambassadors that Tinubu revealed that that He would replace Ganiyu Dawodu with Femi Taiwo because aside from the fact that the Former was not loyal to Him, He wanted to Use the latter for His campaign when He started running for vice president in 2007 under Atiku.

Bucknor was surprised at this but He didn't say anything, rather it was Lai Muhammad that retorted that He knew that Tinubu plan was to run for vice president in 2007, and He was fully in support of Him.

Bucknor rebuffed Tinubu and and advised Him to rather bring Funsho Williams on board. But Tinubu wouldn't listen.


This made Bucknor to realise that Tinubu was working against the party as there is no way He would run for VP under Atiku without changing to PDP.

PDP is the ruling party in National level and there is no way for Atiku to join AD. For Tinubu to become VP, He has to change party. This was so glaring.

Bucknor had known all these, so She wasn't surprised when Tinubu started shutting her off. She didn't care, she was only interested in protecting the interest of the party which she helped founded.

Tinubu started making moves to make sure that Bucknor was impeached. Bucknor tried to warn the party leaders and Elders about Tinubu schemes but They have been bought. They didn't believe Her. They all believed Bucknor to have betrayed the party.


Fast forward to 2002, Tinubu traveled, but not before giving instructions to the then speaker of the house of assembly to impeach Bucknor before He come back.

Bucknor anticipated this, She knew Tinubu is hell bent on destroying Her, Her reputation and political career.

And upon advise from Her family, she did what every sane person would do, She resigned before She could be impeached.

She submitted her resignation letter in December 15, 2002.


Eventually, Tinubu did as Bucknor had predicted. He destroyed the AD party, forming His own Party named AC.

However, whatever become of His ambition to become VP under Atiku is unknown.

This ambition must have been buried because of Tinubu's feud with Obasanjo, making Him form his own party.

Tinubu probably knew He could not become president in 2007, especially after Obasanjo who was also a Yorùbá just finished serving His 2 terms.

Maybe that was why He didn't jump ship and rather form his party and gather his loyal Followers for the Future (2023).



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Another dirge with no substance.

He wanted to be vice president then realised he would not he president because the president at the time was Yoruba.

Hmmm, this is deep.


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Lol

Now I know Tinubu is a great man...

He has permanent residency in his haters' brains.

Lol.

There is nothing wrong to be ambitious.

Every leader loves loyalty.

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