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AN ENIGMA, A GHOST AT BEST

  • We do not know his real name, we know the name he bears is adopted. He has neither denied this nor say it is the truth.
  • We do not know who his parents were.... we know the famous Iyalode of Eko was not his biological mother....
  • We do not know a single member of his extended family
  • We do know which schools he attended ... the one he submitted was not founded when he claimed he attended the school.. meaning, he used Oluwole certificate to gain admission to the College in the U.S. It is best to imagine the implication of this for future prospective Nigerian student into foreign university….
  • We do not know his real age because there are conflicting information on official documents
  • We do not know his real state of origin... we know he claims one but we know he is connected to another because his nephew was installed as a governor in one.....


His whole life is shrouded in misery and full of all kinds of questions. It reminds me of college politics when people with all kind of background scheme to grab power of the student union government at all cost..

I do not know how you can put a lipstick on a pig and call it beautiful... a pig is a pig, it will go back to the mud. You can dress him up today and curtail him, when no one is looking, he would go back to the mud. We have started seeing the signs.... insensitive spending of borrowed money for palliative that they share one 10 kg bag of rice for 147 households (check, that 10 kg will be more expensive than 50 kg bag),... gross abuse of the power and use of apparatus of government to torment and witch hunt political enemies, irrational decisions that have upended the lives of ordinary Nigerians, we see haphazard appointments across board - inexperienced minors being placed in sensitive positions and nepotism in appointment that shows as if public office is now the right of some families where you see two or three generations being appointed to the same public office. We see the same old culture where it is difficult to differentiate facts from tricks.... when obvious evidence that could shake our political direction was trashed on the ground of technicalities and one of their own came out to lampoon the justices for corruption .... and you see ordinary Nigerians who bear the most burden of failed state and unscrupulous activities of the political class come out to castigate a perennial politician who confessed to a life-style of stealing by politicians – just his conscience was pricking him. Aja tio o s’onu, ko ni gbo fere olode… A dog that will get lost in the jungle will not hear the whistling of its owner.

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