I Can’t Be Awolowo,i Can Only Share His Vision-bola Tinubu Replies Pastor Bakare

That Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a force that can’t be wished away politically, socially and otherwise, is a statement of fact. Right now in the Yoruba race, he stands out as a true Yoruba leader who is emulating and building on the legacy the late sage, Pa Obafemi Awolowo left behind.

Before now, a top PDP stalwart in Lagos, Chief Bode George once accused the philanthropist per excellence, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu of copying or acting like Pa Awolowo. Just recently, the fiery preacher, Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly in Interview Magazine, an aegis of Leadership Newspapers, said that the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, does not belong in the same class with the former premier of Western Region, Obafemi Awolowo, and does not deserve to take the place of the late sage as the leader of the Yoruba race.

Reacting to all these hullabaloos, the amiable but shrewd politician/businessman said, “I have read Awolowo in several books, and he is our hero and mentor, but I cannot but be Bola Tinubu. I can only tread the path of Awolowo, without his shoes. I don’t k now his size. I can’t step into his shoes because they are either bigger or smaller, and his image and legacy are bigger than me. I can only use and share the vision. He went away with his shoes and his cap but he left a legacy, a vision.” Has he responded very well?