National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu has described the party’s defeat at the Sept.19 governorship election in Edo as a lesson that they were not gods, but men.
Gov. Godwin Obaseki who contested re-election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeated the APC candidate Mr. Osagie Ize-Iyamu with over 84,000 votes.
Reacting via a statement signed by himself on Monday, Tinubu stated that they were mortals and as such suffer set backs and betrayals
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The statement read: “We should enjoy and take pleasure from our defeats as much as we take from our victories.
“The extent and length they go to see us down shows how great we are.
“Our defeats should be a lesson that we are not gods, that we are but men.
“That we are mortals who suffer from set backs, betrayals… But if our fellow men see us as gods and celebrate our defeats like they’ve defeated gods, then surely we must be close to being gods.
“They seek schadenfreude at our shrine but we only have to give, exactly what they hate us for.
“Akanbi is a movement.
“You either believe or hate, there’s no middle ground. Progress”
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
