In addition to the Toll-Gate massacre and the imposition of his daughter on the Lagos Market Women Association, he engineered the false surrender of Chief Tom Ikimin as the Chairman of APC as well as the removal of Chief Odigie Oyegun as the Chairman of the same party. Colossal errors in leverage consolidation.

Here is supposedly a first-class strategist, unwittingly corroding his Southern power-base with expulsion, and scheming to become the only man standing, but in the process, he corroded his own relevance and cast asunder his inordinate ambition nurtured over the years.

Today, he is like the dust before the wind and the mire on the street. Like the wind, his enemies are legion and they blow from every direction. And like the dirt on the street, it is a no use - susceptible to being swept off the ground.

It came to a point, I cried out loud here on Facebook, asking, who is advising this man? He just didn't get it. Governor El'Rufai came to Lagos to lecture Lagosians on how to overthrown a Godfather. There was no counter-attack from Bourdillon. And the Nation newspaper went to bed.

A few months earlier, the same El'Rufai stated unequivocally that the 2023 APC Presidential ticket, is not zoned to any region. In other words, Tinubu should stop salivating for the 2023 automatic Presidential ticket. And there was no Asiwaju Apostle to dare the Kaduna Strong Man to a fight.

Yet, the same Mallam the irrepressible Governor, told whoever cares to listen that Asiwaju did not deliver the West for President Buhari in the 2019 Presidential election. And yet again, no one pen an opinion piece to rebut or challenge Governor El'Rufai. And the wordsmith of the Nation newspaper was nowhere - not exactly his brief.

A Truth He Couldn't Manage.

The moment President Buhari was declared the winner of the 2015 Presidential election, his office came out with a line that remains memorable - "I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody." Whether or not he accepted it as a statement that he is not wanted in Aso Rock or that unknown soldiers who didn't participate in the sacking of President Jonathan are now in charge, remains a mystery. But the first Lady said so and cried out loud. But the major victim, the architect of the victory, continues to play the docile stooge.

Asiwaju's wife cried out loud many years later that his husband was pushed under the bus after the inauguration ceremony. Meaning that Asiwaju was quite aware as the President's wife declared, that indeed, a cabal has hijacked activities at Aso Rock and supplanted her husband. What did Asiwaju do? Nothing, if at all, it was the opposite.

Why is this story necessary? Simple.

Seeing the emerging picture, Asiwaju should have rallied around himself, the big guys of the West, South East, and Middle Belt whom he assembled to topple President Jonathan in 2015. In that case, develop firm support on the ground within the South ahead of 2023. He did not do that. He continues to be anti-Southern interest and most often, remains quiet when he is expected to take a stand and speak out on national issues. And he became a leader without a fan.

What is Asiwaju's position on "Killer Herders?" On "Cattle Colony?" On "Bandit?" On "killing in Southern Kaduna and the Middle Belt"? On Chadian Military Invasion and the fraud of the war against the Boko Haram sect?" The perpetuation of the Service Chiefs in office?" And on the "deplorable Lagos/Badagry Expressway?" Nothing. He doesn't want to offend the North.

Have you ever see Northern political leaders and religious leaders quiet on national issues? No. They always take a stand, no matter whose ox is being gored. One of them threatened us a few years ago that he will mobilize his own people and move to Cameroon. And you think he was joking. No. That's the difference between them and us. They are never afraid to take a stand.

This is a lesson for all: Know your friends. Know where you are coming from. Value your Homefront. Honor and cherish your base. When all else fails, you must have friends and tribesmen willing and ready to die for you. Papa Awo was one. Sir Ahmadu Bello was one. And Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was another.

It's not all about the money all the time; the old adage, which says: Good Name is Better Than Riches, is as potent today as it was when it was first phrased. I pray for Asiwaju, God's protection wherever he is.

Today, granted the death at Lekki Toll Gate did not catapult the nation into a bloody revolution or change of Government, it has rewritten the relevance of the Tinubu bloodline in the police of the Western region. Above all, it has reminded a lot of us writers and commentators, that whenever push comes to shove, the Almajiris, the Abokis, and the convicted, but released Boko Haram sect will ever remain ready tools in the hands of all the Feudalist Buhari's of Nigerian politics to subvert popular change. To be continued.