Over Visit To Akande
From Richard Akintade, Osogbo
Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress ,APC, yesterday berated the embattled Governor Ademola Adeleke for running helter-skelter to Chief Bisi Akande, former state governor and ex-national chairman of the APC, apparently begging the distinguished democrat for soft landing on the prevailing political logjam on the reinstated council chairmen and councillors in the state.
It was strange that Governor Adeleke and his cohorts could find a way to Pa Akande’s residence after the Peoples Democratic Party’s thugs, acting on the governor’s body language, had killed one of the reinstated local government council chairmen of Chief Akande’s party, Hon Remi Abass, in Ikire and other members of the opposition party in the other parts of the state few days ago.
We want to impress it on Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers that Pa Akande is a democrat and no amount of under-the-table arrangement would make the former governor of the state to work against the interest of his party.
Does Governor Adeleke want Pa Akande to be praising him for being instrumental to the killing of the chieftain and members of his party?
We want to believe that there are knowledgeable political lieutenants of Governor Adeleke who should guide him aright that the proper place for him to go if at all he has any case for redress after the Akure verdict of February 10, 2025, is the Supreme Court.
It does not add up that a governor whose directive resulted into the killings of our members and others across the state could think he could fool the people again through the back door.
The walkabout of Governor Adeleke and his acolytes to Pa Akande pointed to the fact that they have lost the game irredeemably.
If we may ask, why is Governor Adeleke afraid of approaching the Supreme Court for redress if indeed he is convinced that he has a genuine case?
We find it difficult to find a rationale where a robber would be pleading with the owner of an item to allow him to steal his property. It is a mirage that will never come to reality.
Our golden advice to the troubled Governor Adeleke is that he should partner with the reinstated council chairmen and councillors to ensure dividend of democracy cut across the length and breadth of the state.
