The political development of the recent days in the pacesetter state have been one that requires a surgical treatment, and as a matter of fact proper study to understand what exactly pushed people into the fora of active politics. Questions regarding the main interest needs to be asked, and the answers therein need to be scrutinized for the sake of posterity.
Much have been said about the assumed-to-be treacherous move of some national assembly candidates of Accord in Oyo State to both APC and PDP in the state. While some are justifying the act as one of those normals in politics, some still make a case for such a funniest part of politics which defeated the principle of morality, consciousness, and as a matter of fact, posterity to those caught in the act. Belonging to three different political parties within six months of political activities is quite unworthy and irresponsible.
This is not definitely funny anymore, it calls for concern as many things are at stake for the future of our democratic sustainability and tenets.
I only have a case or call it a question from all these draconic occurrences here and there in Oyo State. To those who ditches Bayo Adelabu of Accord gubernatorial ambition, as can be rightly interpreted, after their electoral loss and went to align with the ruling PDP or other opposition, APC, in their imagination, do they expect their new host to hand them the desired trust and accord them proper sense of belonging? It will be no, I want to believe that. And it will be worse if PDP loses out of the Elections. Same interpretation to those who swiftly ported to APC, all against Accord’s Bayo Adelabu who has unrelentlessly supported them before and on their election day.
Just like someone has posited, if peradventure that they do not have the intention of supporting his guber contest, why not keep their defections low, and allow the gubernatorial election to pass before making their treacherous move a louder one? Politics is indeed dirty.
What a shame to all the so-called political leaders and actors for obviously stating the obvious that party loyalty is a scam and perhaps, that they’re not worthy of following and dying for. What will be the fate of their followers who have probably engaged in cyberbullying of either APC’s Teslim Folarin or PDP’s Seyi Makinde or even both? What a shame once again.
On the final lap, there seems to be something missing in most of the political principals, their level of perseverance is appearing very low and lacking the ability to fix out numbers of sycophants following and surrounding them all around in the name of loving them and consequently making them neglecting those who want the best for them at the detriment of the obvious sycophants.
You can’t continuously be subscribing to flashy followers and not having a setback when their flash loses the power to continue flashing.
In all, if political principals keep failing to be building and creating meaningful and productive followers that will become their strong political base, I have no reservation to say that they will continue falling into these kinds of political traps of the street boys masking corporate.
At this point, we can only wish Oyo State the best as we all go to the polls on March 18, 2023.
Akintunde Yusuf Akinloye
Ibadan, Oyo State
