The Demystification of Official Tyranny

So, we lost the election,

Which election?

Shut up!! Can’t you hear the result of the election by the OAU VC. He declared Aregbe as the winner.

How come? as at 2 o’clock,we were winning according to our party leaders ,Femi Fani-Kayode and Diran  Odeyemi.

 What now happened between, 2am to 7am!!!

How come we were ‘coasting’ to victory and INEC  had the temerity to announce that man Aregbesola!!

SANGBA FOO! What will I eat for the next 4 years now?  Ebi ti de o

This is the best campaign ever, that is  the report we were getting from our field officers.  They misled us, they told us it didn’t matter, that the people of EDE didn’t really appreciate Senator Adeleke again. That they didn’t give a damn if the Asiwaju of Edeland was punched and beaten by Omisore and Jelili Adesiyan. They couldn’t care any less if we made a former governor lie face down and threaten him with death.  Jelili Adesiyan even said,if he punched him well, Adeleke would give up the ghost.

The gameplan was easy, just give people ‘rices’ and Kerosine,they’ll forget everything, and we’ll coast home to victory.

The defection of party members did not help our case,. I can’t believe oyinlola and Etteh never loved Omisore. Alhaji Fatai Akinade Akinbade left in anger to LABOUR PARTY,they were just doing oju aye, they are jealous of Omisore.

How?!

 Omisore is popular than them.

Hmmn, Are you sure omisore is popular or is it that he is just notorious….

What do you mean, ‘won peyan ni onifun radarada, oo de le pa ifun e mo’ , This is the same person many people suspect strongly because of his violent antecedents whenever he campaigned, he usually went with so many escorts, blocked traffic numerous times, blared siren more than a president would, even the Governor he was trying to unseat doesn’t use siren. This man blocked the Gbongan Ibadan expressway. Even in Osogbo, he shut down CMS highway the ensuing traffic gridlock is the evidence of crowd to him. How can you seek for people’s votes and habitually annoy them and deprive many of their sources of movement and livelihood.

 But then, the game plan  was simple, just give people ‘rices’ and Kerosine,they’ll forget everything, and we’ll coast home to victory.

Ehn, but wait, I thought  PDP had fantastic  strategists, they are so good that MR PRESIDENT has christened the new PDP Chairman, The Game Changer! what now happened?

What more could we have done? Our strategy was based on three factors, flooding the state with consumables knowing how precarious the situation of the country is,  the more reason why its profitable to keep more people in poverty. It wins elections, Ekiti proved that, just flood them with rice and kerosene, and they’ll love you.

We also banked on arresting top APC Chieftains and slamming them into jail, to be released maybe after the elections if we wished.  That would scare others from venturing out and campaigning for that Aregbe guy, and it would be a field day for us. We had gotten assurances of DSS,ARMY, CIVIL DEFENCE,and even ex-militants coming to work for us, and shooting any anti-GEJ party man into submission. After all , by the time Mr presido just used 60% of his power lasan, APC won’t even venture to campaign for fear of arrest, and we’ll continue on our mission to ‘re-capture’ southwest.

This election meant everything to us, not because the state has that mineral resources, but because the destiny of many of our political gladiators are tied to it .

How?! I’ll explain to you.

Jelili Adesiyan  was a co-accused with the PDP contender in the trial of the celebrated  death of Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Bola Ige. When he wanted to go through ministerial screening, he shed some crocodile tears,and swore that he didn’t know anything about the Minister’s death, and that, he was being unfairly accused. This same man less than  8 months after being confirmed as minister reportedly slapped Senator Adeleke, and when questioned, retorted, that, if he actually punched him, Adeleke couldn’t survive his pugilist skills, -from a serving Minister!!!. Well, to oga Jona, you are only as good as how relevant you are to his 2015 ambition. Don’t give me that bull crap, he isn’t interested in contesting, it is visible to the blind, and audible to the deaf. Let’s see how he keeps his seat, when he can’t win his own state, with the retinue of Police Officers placed under his command, simple ‘fine-tuning’ of election situation, he can’t do, how can he then quell disturbances. Don’t be surprised when you see ‘ fired for non-perfomance, inimical to the Transformation agenda’ as the reason for his dismissal.

Have you heard of the slang, ko sii KORO,ko sii ibo’ . Musiliu Obanikoro is a man on a mission. Political redemption. After being beaten blue-black, by BRF in 2007, he was compensated with the Ambassadorial post to Ghana, the man was left to Political Siberia. By the time he came back in 2011, the dynamics had changed. Thanks to Oga Jona, he’s been rehabilitated as Minister of State for Defence to replace Olusola Obada who collapsed on hearing gunshots at the Armed Forces Day Celebration.

South West PDP is never in shortage of such weirdos. And Obanikoro has won  a great job abandoning the hotspots of Sambisa and marshaling troops to the hitherto secure and peaceful states of Osun and Ekiti, to intimidate and oppress members of the opposition.  He played the script out in Ekiti, and did it again in Osun.

The most ironic episode was seeing Obanikoro and Femi Fani-Kayode giving a press briefing about the preparedness of the Armed Forces in maintaining law and order. In what capacity? as PDP chieftains, who had just promised to capture the state, or a government minister, any way, what was Fani-kayode doing there. Somebody said, any election Obanikoro led was always lost,and wondered why such a man could be appointed to fight Boko Haram, it is said that,in Lagos in 2007, the continuation of the famous term, is .’Ibo dee, Koro salo”.

Teslim Folarin is back in his bid to displace Governor Abiola Ajimobi, combative and burly, he fits the mould of politicians GEJ  seems to have favoured to get back the South West rugged, combative fellows who won’t blink at the flow of blood as long as their desires to rule was sated. Capturing Osun would have gotten him a spring in his step,as he aims to win. This same man was the Senate Majority Leader, and Ibadan bears testament to the myriad of federal projects he influenced to the sprawling city, from bridges to expressways, to revamped airports, factories, renewed greenery in the ancient city hitherto reputed for dirt. He wants to achieve all that this time, as AKALA didn’t allow him do so then. He unleashed Elewe-Omo to stop all the federal goodies coming to Ibadan Mesiogo. Now this time, he’ll  have to fight it out again with the same Akala in slugfest of who best can shout POWER! POWER! To petrified citizens of Oyo who know too well, how  peaceful’ their former reign was, that they heaved a sigh of relief on their exit.

Of those who are aiming for a political phoenix story to their political career, none is as comedic as the Baba Olabode George. In saner climes, he’ll heed his officiating minister’s warnings and go home to sin no more, but aren’t we in the season of Transformation? Where an ex-convict governor in Bayelsa got his presidential pardon, and was a delegate at the National Confrence on how to move the nation forward.

We’re in the season of great signs and wonders, baba has had his sentence quashed, his wife now heads NDLEA, and he’s so popular now that, he has who they call ‘BODE GEORGE BOYS’ emblazoned on their shirts, smoking and daring anyone on the streets of Osogbo.  Dimeji Saburi Bankole too wants to rule Ogun , all their dreams don pafuka now, Aregbe ti fii ori won gba ara won.

The Presidency has never been this bruised politically, although,I don’t understand our president’s body language. A friend to my uncle’s teacher,whose neighbour’s cousin works there said, the calculation is that, NorthWest and North East are unwinnable. APC is showing a strong platform in NORTH CENTRAL which makes South West, a must-capture region if the president harbours any hopes of winning. Though, he has denied contesting, nkan ti awa gbo niyen. Ekiti gave him hope of sweeping it all, but this same Aregbe who gave him a hiding in 2011, has scored a brace this time, even with the 73000 servicemen deployed. The man is an Ijesha joor, agidi ti poju.

But, Ore, what happened to  the federal might? It has never failed where deployed.

Hmmmn, that’s where I fear this Aregbe and his strategists. On Wednesday, 50 trucks of DSS agents patrolled OSOGBO shooting in the air, the people just trooped out shouting APC!! In that kind of situation, how many people do you want them to kill? Senator Bayo Salami’s house was attacked, he escaped. Same forces wanted to capture Senator Adeleke,he escaped to his mother’s house. Almost all APC bigwigs in Ife, the said stronghold of Omisore, were chased away,  with their families, the ones who braved the heat, were pummeled again by new Lagbaja-copying shooters, yorubaland had never seen.

Buruji Kashamu, had supplied kerosene and rice. Osun was overflowing with rice, the people collected it, and they ironically voted in Aregbe. We thought they hated him, but the crowd I saw, heralding him from town to town was unprecedented, even when  they told us, he was  ‘importing’ them. The plan was to scare enough voters to stay indoors. The startegy was foolproof, we were celebrating our come-back to power, but the results on election day was a rude shock, how could we be so badly beaten.

So, what happens to Omisore now?

O n pe, kilokanmi, he will be in Abuja for 31/2 years, when election draws near, he’ll start distributing rice and kerosene around. As at last year August, he didn’t have one single plan like this about what he wanted to achieve in the state. For somebody, who has been trying to ‘RULE’  since 1999!!. Aregbe didn’t spend  3months before he started O’YES, our party men who shouted, the policy wasn’t good, urged their children to rush and get the forms. There is O’SCHOOL,O’MEAL, O’REAP, OPON IMO, O’THIS-o’that., this same Aregbe has done it despite been deliberately starved of funds by the Federal Government .

Aregbe loves being with the masses, Omisore is feared by them. Whereas, Aregbe’s popularity is cult-like, Omisore’s notoriety as a purveyor of violence is in the realm of Ajantala. Look at Aregbe  now, he’s a masses man, omode,agba,,love him, have you seen school children,waving brooms to herald him? Can you even think of Omisore enjoying that privilege? onikaluku n fi omo e pamo ni.

If one is not greedy how can you eat 2 cobs of corn at the same time, and moving in an open roof? Is it to taunt people,? He can’t even hand it out to the driver carrying him about. loju temi, that isn’t a man of the masses o, wonbiliki wonbia ni won n pe iru won.

Awa wi tan, he was shouting,  TEE SO JUE, GBAA LOWO E, KO MOO LO

Tee so jue – loju ba blind.

Gbaa lowo e- Lowo ba ro

Ko moo lo- l”Umbrella ba di void.

He wants to go to Tribunal, let him go, we still need his money. 3.5 billion naira isn’t a child’s play.

Woo, if he likes let him contest as senator again, he’ll meet his albatross again in APC,  OSUN still remains OSUN-KOYA,EBELE-FREE.

The cranium of a mammoth is no luggage for a toddler- Atari Ajanaku ni Aregbesola,kii seru omode,

Dagunro o see je, ma jen tan e

*Lawal is a Senior Special Assistant to the Governor, State of Osun.