Supporters of Governor Seyi Makinde are terribly hurting these days.
If you love yourself and you want to engage them in an argument about the 2027 general election, maintain a safe distance.
Their fuses are all burnt out. They have lost the decorum of engaging in intellectual discussion.
For them, you are an enemy, once you hold a contrary opinion from their usual, warped opinions about issues.
I have since discovered that their constant exposure to the lyrics of ” were la fi nwo were” is beginning to shape their senses of reasoning.
The gale of resignations from the Makinde Government, most especially, from the Ogbomoso axis has added salt to their many injuries and you really have to sympathize with them.
This magnitude of resignations from a Government in power has never been witnessed in Oyo state.
The only problem I have with the Makinde boys is the fact that they attribute every defection from their party, every resignation from the Makinde Government, as a product of political merchandise.
I saw an anonymous write up on several WhatsApp platforms this morning.
It is titled, ” Free-for-all Abuja Taxpayers’ Money In Ogbomoso: One Gets 250mn, Others 50mn, 40mn Each To Trade Their Integrity”.
I read through the report and no names were attached to the ones who gave and those who purportedly received the imaginary ” Abuja Taxpayers’ Money”.
The piece in question is not only worthless, it is filled with bitterness and dangerous insinuations and because I know the usual pattern of the Cassava carrying party, I have decided to puncture their plot before it is unfolded.
A couple of weeks ago, a story like this was planted on Whatsapp Groups by faceless individuals.
In that story, a futile attempt was made to shift the blames for Governor Makinde’s inability to complete the Ido-Eruwa Road project on the Deputy Governorship candidate of the APC and later, an unnamed APC Chieftain.
I was able to see through their mischief and shenanigans and I pointed out the fact that it was too late for Governor Seyi Makinde to pass his failures to complete a 48km Ido-Eruwa Road project to an unnamed APC Chieftain.
A couple of days after the story was planted on Whatsapp Groups, the Allied People’s Movement, APM Gubernatorial candidate, Bimbo Adekanmbi, went about, on Radio, trying to amplify the nonsense planted on Whatsapp Groups a couple of days before. He failed woefully.
Now, they are back with another trash talk.
I don’t even know what problems they have with Ogbomoso and ” Taxpayers”.
I hate cowards. If you are sure of your facts, lay them bare.
Who gave money to those who resigned from Governor Seyi Makinde’s Government and who received what?
Let me ask these Lilliputians, how much did Governor Seyi Makinde offer Boye Sangodade before he joined the APM?
How much was given to Saheed Fijabi and the father, High Chief Fijabi before they jumped ship, ( fona) to the other side?
Not long after High Chief Akinade Fijabi moved over to the camp of Governor Seyi Makinde, an alleged audio conversation between the Ibadan High Chief and an unknown member of the All Progressives Congress, APC was leaked.
In that leaked audio, a voice which resembled that of High Chief Fijabi was heard, pleading with the APC member to jump over to Makinde’s side with a promise of 10 thousand dollars.
High Chief Fijabi has not denied that the voice in that audio is not his voice.
Let me also ask, how much was Governor Makinde paid to ditch the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in 2023?
I am amused that the writer of the piece concluded that those who resigned from Governor Seyi Makinde’s Government do not have electoral values.
If that is the case, why are you so worried about them? Why are you so pained? Why are you losing sleep over their resignations?
There is a passage in that write-up that I like so much and I wish to adopt it against Governor Seyi Makinde.
Let me quote the particular passage. It says, ” what they have conveniently forgotten, ( those who resigned), is that no one betrays the hand that fed him and goes scot-free…”.
I love this position because, it follows that, even Governor Seyi Makinde would not go scot-free for betraying Ladoja, Lanlehin, Sarafa Alli, Mulikat Adeola Akande, Alh. Bisi Olopoeyan, Amb. Taofik Arapaja, H. E, Barr. Hazim Gbolarumi, Engr. Rauf Olaniyan, Ayodele Fayose, Diran Odeyemi, Nyesom Wike, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and many others too numerous to mention.
If that is the case, so be it.
Sometimes I wonder, how people get so emotional and began to sin against God.
The writer of the piece, by implications, labeled Hon. Segun Ogunwuyi as a betrayer and assumed that Governor Makinde “gave him everything, all the privileges of government, despite having zero electoral value..”.
If I’m not mistaken, the same Segun Ogunwuyi, who, the bitter individual referred to, as not having an electoral value had contested and won election as a member of the House of Representatives before Makinde became Governor of Oyo state.
If he had no electoral value, how did he win an election into the Nigerian House of Representatives?
A lot of people do not know the kind of risks people who held the kind of office Ogunwuyi held, under Makinde took, on behalf of their Principal.
They only look at the assets attached to the office and overlook the liabilities.
The write up contains a lot of balderdash that are not worthy of dissipating energy on.
How do you respond to an allegation of someone” luring unnamed individuals with 5 and 10 million Naira and another unnamed individual referred to as Mr A allegedly paid off with 40 million Naira and yet, unnamed suspended Chairmen who allegedly collected 50 million Naira?”
Like I said, Governor Makinde, Bimbo Adekanmbi and the APM are in severe pain.
They are hurting so badly and you have to look at them from such a frustrating angle.
However, blackmails and cheap lies will only worsen their situation.
I do not know how anyone would convince me that Governor Seyi Makinde does not deserve to be betrayed by others.
Betrayal is the Governors’ stock in trade. Unfortunately, whatever a man sow, he will reap.
This is harvest time for the Governor of Oyo state.
Let me sit back and enjoy the show with Wikes’ signature tunes… “As e dey pain them, e dey sweet us”.
Sola Abegunde.
