Details: Top Aide Goes Spiritual Over Tinubu’s Ill Heath & Death Rumors

One of the top aides of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has gone spiritual over the unending ill-health and death rumors decorating the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Tinubu, 69, and the former Governor of Lagos state – 1999 till 2007 – has been dogged with unfounded tales of ill-health, admission at hospitals, and death every time he steps out of the country.

This development has become a trend in the face of an increasing number of pressures groups calling on the former Executive of Mobil Oil Nigeria to contest as the next President of Nigeria.

It is believed that political opponents seeking to portray the 1979 graduate of Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the Chicago State University as “unhealthy” and weak to handle the rigors of overseeing the affairs of Nigeria are behind these rumors that have turned false each time they are thrown up.

A top aide has however gone spiritual in the handling of the situation.

He has warned the people behind these “spurious” allegations of the spiritual implications of their actions, telling them to “ be wary of the wrath of God.”

“Those wishing Asiwaju dead, hoping to profit from it should be very careful. They should be wary of the wrath of God” – the top aide, Tunde Rahman warned.

Rahman, a former editor at Thisday newspaper is the media aide to Tinubu who started his political career in 1992 as a member of the immensely popular Social Democratic Party (SDP).

Rahman issued the warning while pointing out what befell others that tried the same antics with another nationalist in a piece that reads in part “Again, these people who try to rubbish Asiwaju’s health, peddling rumours that he is dead forget that the matter of life and death is within the realm of God. Not of any individual. They should not attempt to play God.

They conveniently forgot what many dubbed the Zik’s curse. Recall that Nigeria’s first president and one of our foremost leaders, late Dr. NnamdiAzikiwe, was rumoured dead I think around November 1989. Some prominent print media organisations and television stations published the story without conducting due diligence and checks. With banner headlines cast in impressive adjectives befitting the Great Zik, they proudly proclaimed the nationalist dead. Some of Zik’s associates, some of whom had not seen him in years, particularly the late Chief RBK Okafor, also fell for it, ranting about their close relationship with the late nationalist and how they were with him in his last moments.

Reminiscing on this episode in an article titled “The Day Zik Didn’t Die” published by THE NATION newspaper on November 8, 2016, celebrated columnist, Professor Olatunji Dare, had this to say: “Out-of-work politicians saw an opening and moved in swiftly. A First Republic legislator and former stalwart of the Zikist Movement, Chief RBK Okafor, panting as if he had sprinted all the way from Nsukka to Rutam House in Lagos, narrated breathlessly how he had cradled his “beloved Zik” in his arms and how, even as his life ebbed, the great nationalist had said to him: “Chief RBK Okafor, my political son, remember that I am a Pan-Africanist and should be given a Pan-African burial.”

As it turned out, Zik’s rumoured death was false. It was fake news. Zik did not die. At least he did not die at that time. He read that obituary in the newspapers. He also reportedly cursed those people grandstanding over his purported death. And one by one, they died before him. Zik went on to live for another seven years. The long and short of all of this is those wishing Asiwaju dead, hoping to profit from it should be very careful. They should be wary of the wrath of God.”