PDP chief praises Tinubu’s ruggedness

Former Minister of Mines and Steel Development and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain in Ogun State, Chief Sarafa Isola, yesterday hailed the National leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as a dogged fighter.
The former Lagos state governor, he said, fight for any “cause and ideology he believes in.
Isola, who was Secretary to State Government (SSG), Ogun State, during ex – Governor Gbenga Daniel’s first term in office, said Tinubu has remained consistent despite all odds.
This, he said, has enabled him to provide leadership to the party, a quality he said is lacking in many politicians.
According to him, politicians who can’t stand for something inevitably can’t provide the leadership required to develop and nurture the nation’s democracy.
The ex – minister who is the Tayese of Egbaland spoke in his GRA home, Abeokuta, the state capital during an interaction with journalists on heels of the robust but unsuccessful outing of ACN in Ondo State.
Isola said: “Look at Asiwaju Tinubu. He is a dogged fighter and had remained consistent in his party deploying his energy, time and resources for the party because of the ideology he believes in. “From the era of Alliance for Democracy (AD) to Action Congress (AC) through to Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), he has been consistent with the party of his ideology and he had the opportunity to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but he never did.
“That is how it ought to be. Chief Segun Osoba is another politician who had remained consistent in his party right from AD despite all odds.
“We must believe and stand for something. If you can’t stand for something, you can’t provide leadership and there would also be no ideology to pursue.
“But look at our contemporaries today if it is not paying them well in one political party, they quickly jump ship. If it is not working in PDP, they move to ACN.
“If it is not working for them in CAN, they rush off to CPC or APGA. We must develop and nurture our democracy to build our nation. I don’t believe in political prostitution.
“My party – PDP, is having challenges in Ogun State but I have remained in PDP”.
The Egba Chief, who said he lost his ministerial appointment to cabinet reshuffle during the administration of late Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua due to the local politics Ogun PDP, said he does not have now any aspiration for elective office at the state or national level.