By Sola Abegunde
I have seen the vituperations of Ismail Akolade against ace Broadcaster, Author, Film maker and Actor, Adebayo Faleke.
Ordinarily, I do not set so much in store for the clownish fellow, Ismail Akolade.
He is a man known for his double speak and attention seeking tendencies.
He claims to know everything and everyone in the political circle, even though, his actions and utterances betray him as someone who is just searching for how to fill his belly.
For some time now, he has been campaigning for the Allied People’s Movement, APM of Seyi Makinde and he has been seen with the Governor of Oyo state and the APM Gubernatorial candidate, both home and abroad.
Like I said, I do not set so much in store for clowns like him but I am constrained to intervene in his unprovoked attacks against Dr. Bayo Faleke.
Dr. Faleke released a podcast on Wednesday, where he interviewed a social media influencer, by the name of Ishola Ishola.
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The young man, Ishola has been very active, exposing the atrocities of the Seyi Makinde Government very recently and obviously, the lapdogs of the APM are very uncomfortable with Bayo, for hosting Ishola on his podcast.
I have watched the interview in question and I don’t know why Ismail Akolade is losing sleep over the contents of the video. Ishola merely repeated what he has been saying over and over in his videos on Facebook.
I don’t know why the clownish fellow was full of condemnation for Bayo Faleke.
It does look like the decision by Bayo to host Ishola on his podcast is the only reason Akolade is losing sleep and I wonder, did Dr. Faleke borrow money from this idle individual to set up the CoreRoom, his media outfit?
He claimed that Dr. Faleke took a bribe of five hundred thousand Naira from Ishola to feature him on his podcast without substantiating the wild allegation.
Ismail Akolade’s major grouse is the insinuation that the interview was staged for the purpose of attacking the state Government.
Throughout his annoying and irritating post, I did not see a single item which was taken from the interview to be a lie and the truth provided by him. He was merely foaming in the mouth like a drunkard.
The funny fellow felt like, Bayo Faleke shouldn’t have interviewed someone he branded as ” an enemy” of the Seyi Makinde Government.
Whereas, the same Bayo Faleke recently hosted one Omiyale, a former supporter of Chief Bayo Adelabu and Michael Ogunsina, on his podcast and in the course of their interaction, the gentleman, Omiyale was making all sorts of reckless comments against Senator Sarafadeen Abiodun Alli and Leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Was Ismail Akolade blind, deaf and dumb or, will he pretend not to have seen that interview?
I was shocked to see that Akolade thought that the dignity of Bayo Faleke could be purchased with five hundred thousand Naira!
What a poverty of reasoning?
I have to say that I was one of the very first Guest on Dr. Faleke’s Podcast and up till now, I have appeared on Coreroom three times, the last one being a couple of weeks ago, when I appeared with Michael Ogunsina of the APM.
I have never bought a packet of sweets for Bayo Faleke or any of his Staffs, not to talk of giving him a dime for whatever reasons.
Bayo is one of the very few upright and principled Journalists we have around today.
A pig like Ismail Akolade can not bring him down.
I am a member of the opposition in Oyo. In 2019, Governor Seyi Makinde leveraged on the conducive environment provided by the late Governor Abiola Ajimobi to campaign freely against the ruling party, the APC, without fear or intimidation.
Ajimobi did not blackmail the press and neither did he threaten any organization with the intention to subdue them and discourage them from supporting Makinde and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
We will resist every attempts by frustrated elements to blackmail Journalists and organizations who are doing their jobs professionally and without fear or favor.
If we have reasons to speak against Seyi Makinde and Seye Famojuro, we will and heavens will not fall.
Infact, we will do everything possible to ensure that they account for their misdeeds and if clowns like Akolade finds that irritating and unacceptable, they should go and hug a transformer.
Sola Abegunde.
