By Hon. (Apagunpote) Biyi Adeleye,
Former Special Adviser to the Governor on Political Affairs and APC Candidate for OGHA, Remo North State Constituency.
The most potent and easiest way to make money now in Ogun State is to join few disgruntled individuals and call yourselves aggrieved APC members who are ready to decamp to Lado’s camp of PDP which has been termed “Cashout” point or, if you like, “The brand new Mugun of Ogun politics”.
The is because Ogun All Progressives Congress (APC) is intact and we have not lost any member to PDP. What is happening is that those who have been pretending and parading themselves as APC members are members of APM, a nascent party formed by some disgruntled and self-serving politicians who were cashing on their unsuspecting infantile followers during the last elections in the state. It is unfortunate that, in spite of the obviously clear and abundantly crystal vision that the party has died on arrival and gone into extinction. Like a store that is about to close up, every item will be offered on “clearance sales”. APM is clearly on Clearance Sales.
The fact remains that, lately, about forty percent of those who could be described as factors or matters in the Ogun polity but were inveigled to leave or left at the behest of their former leaders, have relocated back to the mainstream APC as a result of the team player and visionary leader of the party in the state, Prince Dapo Abiodun while about 45% still in APM are waiting for the directive of their “Paymaster”, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun. This is expected as a postulate says, ” He who pays the Pipers dictates the tunes”.
Surprisingly, the PDP stalwarts in Ogun State are currently dancing naked in the public celebrating the less than 5% of sales they have, by luring Abdulkabir Adekunle Akinlade with the deputy governorship slot thinking it will attract all the APM members without going through Sen. Amosun. Unfortunately it backfired and resulted to a ding-dong affairs which Yoruba would say, “Rikisi to so wan po ti tu wan ka” literally translates to , “the dastardly conspiracy that joined them has also interspersed them”. In all this game, the ultimate beneficiary in the game is APC.
It would be remembered that immediately after the election, the performances of PDA had caused early defection of political leaders from ADC, led by GNI, PDP as led by OGD and a lot of APM members from each council by their chairmen as a result of flawlessness and developmentally oriented inclusive policy of Gov. Dapo Abiodun.
I read on one of the news platforms where the former deputy speaker Hon. Tola Banjo who just parted ways with Sen. Amosun and one Mr Bola Oluwole were welcoming late Barr. Mafe’s group from APC to PDP in Sagamu. My questions are: one, was Yinka Mafe in APC before his demise? Have these people attended any APC meeting in Sagamu after his demise? Why were those defecting covering their faces from Camera? The truth is that the meeting was facilitated by Hon. Tola Banjo after many failed attempts in other places because Sen. Amosun has stopped his followers from any further alliance with PDP, having promised to work for Asiwaju in the next election. But those who have collected money from PDP for mobilization of APM members without the consent of Sen. Amosun must do their works either genuinely or by what late Afrobeat King, Fela would call, “Arrangie”
The one that really got me laughing is that of Alhaji Saka Hamed who was claiming to be Osoba group leader defecting to PDP. In fact Lado ti wo “one chance”. Meaning Lado has turned himself to “Cashout machine” Ask Lado himself the integrity of Saka Hamed? How many times has Lado himself sent Saka Hamed away from his house. I giggle in Latin. The defection is just audio defection to pretend as if he has been able to Balkanize the ruling and rock steady APC. Sorry, Lado is only doing his crying in the rains. Do you know when one cries inside the rains, people wouldn’t know the person is actually crying.
This is not different from the case of children who told their father that they have found snails. One was honest but the other lied. Just imagine their father asking them to eat their catches for super.
Definitely one will sleep in hunger.
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