That
Adams Oshiomole just sensationally escaped by the whiskers a crushing blow is
no reason for celebration. The reason is
simple: old wounds don’t easily heal. If anything, the signs portends danger. Adams
Oshiomole inherited a full house; was elected by popular agreement; now he
presides over a sharply divided house-a house of intrigues and intra party
squabbles. How did this come about? That’s the big question those backing him
should answer. Leadership is supposed to be by example, not by force; if we are
practicing democracy, it should be democracy—not the other way round. That’s what
got Oshiomole into trouble.
Nevertheless,
if Comrade Adams Oshiomole learnt anything at all, it is that his crude tactics
has failed woefully. He served two term
as Governor; he brazenly prevented, abruptly terminated otherwise brighter
careers that ought to have profited the nation; Comrade Adams rode on politics
crudely and played it dirty as if one was in the jungle! At the end, when
confronted with his very own tactics he baulked, shrank and took to flight,
begging, prostrating before powerful power brokers for help! He showed himself to be a complete weakling after
all.
Perhaps,
to Oshiomole, the fallout from this skirmishes may not yet be clear; but it is to
us. the manner he imposed Oyetola and
Ganduje in Osun and Kano States; The
manner he subverted the ambition of the likes of His Excellency’s Akinwunmi Ambode,
Rochas Okorocha, Bola Ajimobi, let’s not even mention the crude manner he hunted
down immediate past senate president Bukola Saraki. In one dispensation, Oshiomole, while
addressing the Saraki issue bragged thus: “Whether
he likes it or not, we shall remove him by hook, crook or any other means
possible”.
Then,
recently, as in Bayelsa State, when Governor Diri was installed by the law
courts, Oshiomole thundered: “He will not
be sworn in”!
But
when his turn came, the man who ignored court rulings, struck fear into the heart
of his enemies, crumbled like a pack of cards and sought refuge in the very
same courts! What an irony.
This
clearly shows depravation, perversion and high degree of arcane selfness! Oshiomole was clearly ruffled! He showed fear; he trembled and amidst cold
shivers he exposed himself as a mere mortal - and a coward!
So
the lesson: what is good for the goose is also good for the gander. In other climes, his irks would have
resigned. But not here – where you have
sit tight rulers. The question now is
how would Oshiomole fit in, in the new dispensation with formidable enemies built
around him? Surely, the last has not
been heard!
Under
Adams Oshiomole’s leadership, the APC has become one huge conundrum of selfish
minded and myopic people who think of nothing but themselves. While the rest of the world is under the
siege of corona virus, the APC leadership is focused on self-aggrandizement
with less thought for those who voted them in.
This is not the way to pilot a party affair; leadership is all about
service – not about self. Ask anyone in
Edo State who are the beneficiaries of Oshiomole’s leadership and this will
easily point to a handful off his kitchen cabinet namely Clean Agba, Oseni
Alamai, Pius Odubu, Ihonvhere, etc. No
more, no less, when his final script is written, these are the people who will
congratulate him.
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