Media group names Tinubu 2023 Man of the Year
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was at the weekend declared the MAN OF THE YEAR 2023. Tinubu was chosen by the Editorial Boars of the First Pan Yoruba media online, IROHINOODUA
The media group said Tinubu was chosen after widespread considerations and extensive debate.
Making the announcement on Saturday, Irohinoodua, the First Pan Yoruba news online established in 2003 said the choice of Tinubu was informed by his dominant and overwhelming impact in the politics of Nigeria. The media group earlier named the Governor of Ekiti State Abiodun Oyebanji as the Governor of the Year 2023.
Irohinoodua Editorial Board said Tinubu was picked among array of leaders across the country who featured in the consideration.
“So many names came up for consideration but none compared with the vigor and flame generated by Tinubu across Nigeria throughout the year 2023, a man taken for dead but emerged from bitter condemnation to sweet celebration,” the paper said.
It added that the selection of his name by the board members was without any dissenting opinion.
“President Tinubu emerged after considering his grim journey of life through thorns and iron cast cobwebs in Nigeria’s most diverse and separatist election. He was the most vilified and debated personality in the Nigerian Political Space in the year 2023.
“He encountered the toughest roadblocks mounted by principalities and powers and rulers of darkness in high and low places, yet he emerged to win the bitterly contested Presidential Election,” the Editorial Board said.
Irohinoodua said Nigerian electoral contest has a primordial historical charter which content since the 1960s have been determined by a few top military brass who either rule the country by themselves or through their hand-picked proxies.
“In 2023, a new force that broke half a century grip of the political system by a few military cabal emerged in Tinubu.
“It was the first time in Nigerian post-independence history that the President was not the candidate of the known and only hegemony that had held the country in firm grip for 50 years.”
The group said 2023 was the first time a Presidential candidate rejected by the most powerful forces in his own ruling party, including in the Presidency, managed to win the election at the fullness of time and in the most dramatic manner. Irohinoodua said it considered the fact that his appearance on the ballot compelled a drastic, sudden change in state economic policy re-designed to muzzle, suppress his ambition and even lay mines along his path if he eventually won.
