{"id":174413,"date":"2025-08-15T11:53:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/only-political-fools-underestimate-tinubu-ulasi-says"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:57:53","slug":"only-political-fools-underestimate-tinubu-ulasi-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-political-fools-underestimate-tinubu-ulasi-says","title":{"rendered":"Only Political Fools Underestimate Tinubu Ulasi Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dan Ulasi, has said only a political fool will take President Bola Tinubu for granted.<\/p>\n<p>Ulasi disclosed that Tinubu is strategic in his thinking, hence can\u2019t be taken for granted.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily, the PDP chieftain said only an astute-thinking politician like the former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, can defeat Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Ulasi insisted that Obi has a track record that can\u2019t be achieved overnight during his era as governor of Anambra State.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWhen you run a government for six years, what was spectacular in his six years? He was in PDP and I met him more than five times when he was president, I don\u2019t want to discuss that, but there has to be something extraordinary you offer as a leader because leadership is all about results and not speech-making or creating enemies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to have a reference point; look at Peter Obi\u2019s eight years of governorship, he translated education and health, this is an achievement you can\u2019t see overnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe person who is the president of Nigeria today is a strategically thinking person, and anybody who takes him for granted is a political fool. I\u2019m one person who doesn\u2019t take Tinubu for granted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need an astute-thinking politician to face him and, to that point, Peter Obi becomes relevant because a lot of people in this country accept him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is one politician that people have no accusing finger pointed towards him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dan Ulasi, has said only a political fool will take President Bola Tinubu for granted. Ulasi disclosed that Tinubu is strategic in his thinking, hence can\u2019t be taken for granted. Featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily, the PDP chieftain said only an astute-thinking politician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":174412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[18426,254,222,945],"class_list":["post-174413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-dan-ulasi","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Only Political Fools Underestimate Tinubu Ulasi Says - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dan Ulasi, has said only a political fool will take President Bola Tin ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-political-fools-underestimate-tinubu-ulasi-says\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Only Political Fools Underestimate Tinubu Ulasi Says\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dan Ulasi, has said only a political fool will take President Bola Tin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-political-fools-underestimate-tinubu-ulasi-says\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-15T10:53:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-15T11:57:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755246623.557836.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"738\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"415\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-political-fools-underestimate-tinubu-ulasi-says#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-political-fools-underestimate-tinubu-ulasi-says\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Only Political Fools Underestimate Tinubu Ulasi Says\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-15T10:53:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-15T11:57:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-political-fools-underestimate-tinubu-ulasi-says\"},\"wordCount\":276,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-political-fools-underestimate-tinubu-ulasi-says#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755246623.557836.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Dan Ulasi\",\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-political-fools-underestimate-tinubu-ulasi-says#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-political-fools-underestimate-tinubu-ulasi-says\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/only-political-fools-underestimate-tinubu-ulasi-says\",\"name\":\"Only Political Fools Underestimate Tinubu Ulasi Says - 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