2023: How MMM is working for Tinubu
By Ali Smarts
A survey has just revealed that the MMM is working for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Yes you heard right, MMM!
You may be tempted to ask, is it the same MMM (Mavrodi Mondial Movement), the Russian ponzi scheme with subsidiaries in up to 110 countries, first launched in Nigeria in 2016, where an estimated three million Nigerians not only lost N18 billion but led many innocent victims to their untimely graves across the globe while the whole scheme lasted?
Well, a penny for your thoughts. This MMM has no links or affiliations whatsoever with the now infamous ponzi scheme. Never.
This MMM is different in every material particular. This MMM is not opaque, hideous and neither is it invisible.
This MMM is one that is already bearing very positive fruits and helping Tinubu to gain a lot of traction, visibility, and popularity as the campaign hustings for the 2023 general elections hots up.
Now let’s cut to the chase; what really is this new kind of MMM all about you may be anxious to know?
Well, this is it: the new MMM progressively working for the Jagaban as Tinubu is fondly called, are Men, Media and Money!
The combination of these three factors has made a whole world of difference and given Tinubu the best head start above the other contenders for the highest position in the land.
Indeed, MMM remains a major contributory factor in any electioneering campaign because it can make or mar the success of any election.
Interestingly, politics is not just a big deal but serious business anywhere in the world and Nigeria cannot be an exception to the rule, especially where the stakes are really very high. Therefore, any politician worth his salt cannot take certain things for granted.
Little wonder, when Tinubu decided to throw his hat into the ring, he didn’t take it for granted that he was not going to come up against any opposition whatsoever even considering his larger-than-life status and high standing within his own ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
To clinch the party presidential ticket, Tinubu had to literally fight the battle of his life as he himself admitted shortly after the party convention last June. Sorry I digressed.
But come let’s face it, do you think MMM can really work in anyone’s favour and to what end really?
At the risk of making vacuous pontifications, the truth is that anyone interested in playing politics must not just have a really deep pocket but must also have a solid base of supporters ready to sink and die with him and to cap it all, such a person must have a firm grip of the media.
Yes, indeed, the media guarantees unfettered access to information dissemination opportunities which doesn’t come cheap in times like this. So if you have a firm control of the media, you’re home and dry because your bread has been literally buttered, in a manner of speaking!
Tinubu surely knows the true essence of having a strong media component to drive his political ideas and ideals and that has largely informed the quantum of investment he has made within that critical sector thus far, especially within the past three decades or so. Thankfully, these investment decisions have continued to pay heavy dividends since the days of the military junta and especially during the return to democratic rule in 1999 till date.
With the benefit of hindsight, all the three must-have assets of MMM are firmly under the vice grip of Tinubu.
Besides the media, one of the major strengths of the Tinubu political sagacity is the groundswell of support he enjoys from far and near. All these he built in the course of his political voyage several decades ago and keeps nurturing till date.
From available information, Tinubu has got more support base and volunteers spread across the country working for the actualisation of his victory at the polls come February 25th.
At the last count, it is estimated that over 10, 000 support groups both within the country and the Diaspora community including core business professionals, artisans, the organised labour unions, faith-based organisations, civil society partners, ethnic groups, to mention just a few are effectively mobilising prospective electorates for Tinubu ahead of the general elections.
As the countdown to the 2023 general elections closes in, it is rather incontrovertible to say that Tinubu surely holds the aces in this race.
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