The Leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu has allegedly spoken philosophically on the just concluded Edo governoship election which Godwin Obaseki of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP emerged victorious.
Tinubu allegedly said;
“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 [pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune] at our shrine but we only have to give, exactly what they hate us for”.