Former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has owned up being god father of Lagos state politics, saying: “if you call me a godfather, it is alright.”
Tinubu who spoke in an exclusive interview with a team of The Sun editors in his Bourdillion, Ikoyi, Lagos, argued said “godfather is not negative but god lords are. They are the mafias. Godfathers exist even in the church.
“If you call me a godfather, it is alright. I have many children everywhere.”
According to the APC national leader, God father is not all about imposition in a democracy, saying: “if you are a strong adviser, you would get blackmailed; you have seen great qualities in an individual and one that has capacity to do good; you identify those you believe can deliver on the evolution of good governance.
“I have a responsibility to recommend. My party has a right to reject the person. When I identified Babatunde Fashola, some people shouted imposition but when he started to blossom like flowers in the garden, Fashola now became their child.
“The umbilical cord is buried and the baby has survived. In democracy, sometimes, you have the sprinkle of dictatorship too when you know that you are working on the overall interest of the people. You have facts that some people do not have; so you do not get angry.” [myad]
