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Mar 20th, 2010 | By Bankole Alao David | Category: FEATURE

Home Truth With Goke Butika

Please, shall we observe a minute silence for the victims of Jos carnage in Plateau State ? May the Good Lord give the survivors of the bloody war at dawn fortitude to bear their losses. I need not repeat myself that penultimate week, some ethnic chauvinists just bombarded a village in the state and reduced the whole village to rubbles before the dawn; in the process, over 500 people were sent to their early shallow graves.

Even the devil could not stand the gory sight without having tears rolling down his cheeks. This is Nigeria , life is very cheap here and we are not too glad to say that our leaders have gone back to the trenches again, trading blames over the matter.

Finally, the Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has found his political will to do away with the cabal who had succeeded in holding us to ransom all the while. To me, the dissolution of the ailing President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s cabinet is long overdue, because the picture of Mr. Michael Andoaaka (SAN) in the cabinet of ministers is not pleasant to our sight anymore. But we shall adopt a wait and see method to know the new people that would be brought on board.

Let it be known that I am not too enthusiastic about the style of Jonathan, because it is said that a masquerade which intends to dance should dance on time; the oracle that intends to communicate, let it communicate on time, but the way and manner the Acting President is going, I don’t see him coming out of the shadow of some former rulers who brought the nation to this sorry stage.

Notwithstanding, he could be given a benefit of doubt, because it is my prayer that he works out fine, especially on the logjam of electoral reform, but tell me, which electoral reform are we talking about with the present crops of leadership at the Independent National Electoral Commission? Iwu is an example of how not to be an umpire in any electoral matter.

Let Jonathan send Professor Maurice Iwu packing with immediate effect and select a very credible former Chief Justice of the Federation as the chairman of the INEC, then we can begin to talk of electoral reform, but with people like Iwu and co in office, I suggest the electorate should learn how to defend their votes with any method in the book.

Very well, my area of concentration this week is Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola and his deliberate attempt to club Osun State to death with the help of his party.

Imagine, an armed robber offered to fix your door and you are happy, when one ought to have been more careful. But in the state of the Living Spring, “aburu selu, omo ole lo n so gboro” meaning that “the city is in danger, because the sons of armed robbers have been commissioned to man the gate as security men.”

Forget about the sprawling legal battle at the election petition tribunal in one breathe, come to think about politicking within the fold of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State as touching the selection of the governorship candidate from the multitude of the aspirants who have started troubling us with their usual tantrums of the ‘I am the best choice’ stuff and one will see clearly that many things are fundamentally wrong in this poor state.

Now breathe out and think about the ongoing election petition retrial tribunal where the rugged Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate, Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola is still busy exposing the romp of a fowl through his technological-driven wind, by using scientific evidences to present empirical facts to the jury that Oyinlola did not win the mandate in his hand.

From all indications, the enemies of the Ilesa-born colourful politician know that he is putting up a very good fight and they are shivering on it, but the embattled state chief executive and his party thought they could use a delay tactics to deny the good people of Osun State their rights to know the true winner of the 2007 governorship election in the state.

I have been at the tribunal on several occasions and I have witnessed the proceedings there and I am of the opinion that if substantial justice would be put to use fair and square, the Okuku prince has a serious case to answer at the tribunal and with the expected poor performance of his experts, it is crystal clear that for a man to change the substance of the truth to lie, there is more than enough energies to dissipate.

For crying out loud, courtesy demands that all stakeholders in the state should wait for the outcome of the tribunal in the first place. I must confess to you that what I witnessed at the tribunal was not a pleasant news for the PDP and the governor. So, I could not come to term on why the governor and his party would be embarking on a wild goose chase in the first place.

Given the scenario painted above, there may not be any governorship election in 2011 and it sounds convincing that the PDP governorship aspirants are set to lose their deposits. Still, I insist I must speak on the illegality unlimited that is going on in he party in the state.

The first thing that drew my attention to the clear and present danger in the politics of the PDP in the state is the employment of an octogenarian partisan monarch, the Arole Oodua, Ooni Okunade Sijuwade as the political jobber who would shop for the candidate of the party.

I thought His Imperial Majesty, with due respect, has changed his spot on the roforofo politics having reached a ripe age with an anticipation of meeting his ancestors with a good score card at the end (May the king reign for long), but the new task given to him by the PDP has set the record straight in the hands of the bookmakers that here was a great king who served at the feet of dirty politicians. Kabiyesi could think about this.

Just because Oyinlola has lost his face and credibility in the public, he then elected to drag the great monarch along, I think. Or how on earth would a monarch of Ooni’s standing be asked to travel round the world at 80 to shop for a governorship candidate for a political party? What is the business of people like Chief Ebenezer Babatope, who ditched his hard-earned reputation as a die-hard progressive for a pot of porridge and ended up as hypocrite or people like a 75-year-old pathological liar called Chief Shuaib Oyedokun who would say good morning and one would be obliged to check the sky through one’s window blinds.

Let it be known that I am not given to attacking elders, because I desire to be an elder one day, but facts available at my disposal formed my strong will in describing the old man a pathological liar and probably I should clear air on it once again.

When the Inisa-born politician claimed that he had defected to the Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD) then in the embryo and hosted the maiden meeting in his house in Inisa, situated in Odo-Otin Local Government Council Area, I was privileged to be there and publicly raised a question that: “That I am of the opinion that you, Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun was only expressing anger by defecting to this new party because you are losing relevance in the national stage of your former party, PDP. How can you convince us about this?

In a gentle but calculated mien, Pa. Oyedokun stood up and cursed himself if he would ever had an intention of going back to the PDP. He specifically said that he was ready to fight for the other zones in the state which have never had the chance of producing a governor, noting that his zeal was to die a happy man. He even called a press conference in Osogbo, the state capital to x-ray the political inbalance in the state, but some weeks after, he sneaked by to his vomit and left the widow and the children of his younger brother who was murdered by the people suspected to be the agents of his aggrieved party in the cold.

Since then, the old man has been speaking from all pixels of his mouth. Thank God, he lost the prestige and integrity he wanted to take from the corner of the room at the roundabout of posterity. These politicians could have been given the task of shopping for a party candidate, after all, they are not credible like their party and it would not be difficult for them to fish out an incredible candidate out.

The second danger is the way the party chose to zone the candidacy. In the first place, if at all there would be a governorship election, where is it written that the best candidate should be prevented from emerging? Why would the party superintended by the Ooni ask other candidates who had obtained nomination forms for N3 million each to pocket their ambition guaranteed them in the nation’s constitution because of parochial interest? The answer is in the air.

Another one that made it clear to me that the old soldier deliberately wanted to plunge this state into a mess was the nomination of some half-baked politicians as commissioner-designates. Amongst the nominees was one unrefined Muiliyu Mojeed Amobi from Ola-Oluwa Local Government Council Area of the state. He was an embodiment of ignorance, a bad version of polytechnic graduates and worst copy of the younger generation. He appeared before the State House of Assembly with empty head.

I know of one or two commissioners, who were made to scale through the screening of the house, are grossly empty as well and these are the politicians working with the man who still claims to be my governor.

The last but not the least was the way the common man on the street forming electorate was removed from the scheme of things. The political players did not consider the electorate as primary determinants, probably because they know that people like John Dansu who claims to be a Reverend would manipulate figures for them in the future.

Obviously, I have scores to settle with Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola.

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  1. xana March 22nd, 2010 6:18 pm :

    thank u goke butika

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