8th July, 2010
No justice worthy of that hallowed name would endorse such elementary arithmetical scandal. Here are several other examples: In Ayedaade local government area, votes returned on Forms EC8A are totally at variance with the total number of ballots provided by INEC during the inspection of the election materials at the INEC office by Aregbesolaâ€
But it is clear to every observer and the world that Oyinlola did NOT win the 2007 election. It is the certainty of this fact that is running Bello, Oyinlola and their friends scared and leading them to the desperations they have exhibited in the last three years and the vituperations that Bello recently resorted to.
In the course of seeking justice, Aregbesola and his supporters have faced the utmost injustice and glorified criminality in the hands of Oyinlola and his collaborators in their cheap attempts to stop the symbol of the Osun State peopleâ€
In the course of the campaign, the Symbolâ€
Then, there is the political dimension. What has the illegitimate Oyinlola administration achieved in the last three years, or even seven years, that would recommend it to the electorate and the world? Olagunsoye Oyinlola is one of the few public figures in Nigeria whose spectacular failure in any public, political office has been acknowledged by all and sundry as legendary. Apart from his coterie of hirelings, no one can claim that Oyinlola has ever achieved anything of value in whatever public, political office he has held in his life. How has seeking justice “distracted†the unaccomplished and noted disastrous administrator, Oyinlola? When he was not “distracted†between 2003 and 2007, what did Oyinlola accomplish? Nothing! When he was a law unto himself with no constitutional restraint as the military administrator of Lagos State, what did Oyinlola achieve? Nothing! Out of nothing comes nothing. Therefore, we can also take Belloâ€
Bello also embarrassingly claimed that Aregbesola is running the risk of giving Oyinlola a “bonus four years†by going on appeal. Is Bello betraying the latest gambit by Oyinlola to have a “third term†– like his mentor, Obasanjo, tried to have? It will fail, like Obasanjoâ€
Or, are Oyinlola and his supporters afraid of a certain defeat and an ouster – if the Appeal Court so orders, in the end? This fear can only be based on the fact that neither Bello nor Oyinlola was elected by the people of Ede North Local Government and Osun State to be a legislator or the governor, respectively. They both stole the peopleâ€
Bello has again betrayed the emptiness of his mind in his recent vituperations against Aregbesola as the latter returns to the hallowed chambers of justice to reclaim his mandate which was brazenly stolen by Oyinlola and the PDP with the connivance of INEC and some security forces. Osun State has been turned into a Theatre of the Absurd by this gang; but they will be stopped through the will of God and legal process.
Lastly, Osun State people in particular, and Nigerians, in general, and also all men and women who stand up for justice and equity all over the world, must take note of the disguised threat to Aregbesolaâ€
What this suggests is that even if the AC candidate is declared as the legitimate winner of the April 2007 gubernatorial elections in Osun State, Bello and others in the PDP are making or have concluded plans to ensure that Aregbesola is not alive to take the mandate. Perhaps this is what the desperate man means by a “curseâ€. If anything untoward happens to Aregbesola between now and the determination of his appeal or immediately after, it is clear to the world who the first suspect should be.
The Inspector General of Police, the Director-General of the State Security Service and the general public should please take note.
•Adewale Akinogun writes in from Osogbo, Osun State, South West, Nigeria.