To some people, you are a humble man only if you can lower your head to receive their hard knocks. They expect you to emotes a sign of hunger even when you have just filled your stomach with sumptuous meal. If they refer to that as being humble, they probably don't know what hypocritical humility is.
When you sit up to confront your fears, to them, you are arrogant. It's only when you suck up and fuck up that you are considered humble . The pertinent question here is, must anyone pretend inferiority to merit "a humble man award?" That honour would be unmerited as it is a product of the falsehood of the heart.
When I read in a recent post on FB about someone pointing into the direction of Oloye Adelabu Adebayo Penkelemesi as the most arrogant among all the candidates vying for governorship seat in Oyo state. I was taken aback, not for the insincerity that post itself represented as in the hasty conclusion by it's author. I began to cross examine myself and asked where and when was the most arrogant candidate contest organised, for him to have given his verdict. I simply laughed off the inanity.
The inventors of the arrogance tale, perhaps to impress their own pay masters have already inexorably fallen into a self indulging moral trap.
When I further probed what has Oloye Adelabu Adebayo Penkelemesi done or left undone to be given arrogant tag, they had nothing to say other than" he always revealed to the public how the jobs he created or the ones facilitated for people have rubbed off on the people of Oyo state". Not that alone, "he is too boastful of his academic excellence which he wears like a Laurel".
What a lame excuse. I am still wondering when has it become fashionable to be condemning anybody for not hiding what he has? Life itself is built on the pillars of a pecking order. The inscription on the entrance of Plato's Academy readily comes to my mind "no one without a knowledge of Mathematics may enter here". In a simple analysis, we may be equally born, but not equally endowed.
It's imponderable that anybody can ever think that to avoid public broadsides, Oloye Adelabu Adebayo should lie about his degree or keep mum about the people he has gainfully employed. How does that add up? They said, he has a conceited profile, I asked them if it's the fault of a peacock for having long feathers that brandishes it's attractive colours? Academic excellence is a qualitative uniqueness that any man can hide only to offend his creator who has endowed him with such special gift. Oloye Adelabu Adebayo owes nobody apologies for bagging a first class, he is not, and can never be among the second best. Those who cares to know about what makes a difference should be prepared for the difference between Adelabu Adebayo Penkelemesi, the APC governorship candidate and the others.
It's a common knowledge that Oloye Adelabu Adebayo Penkelemesi holds both the old and the young in high esteem. This he does without being obsequious. Only those people who are classed by John Locke for lacking the nous to distinguish truth from appearance will not know that Adelabu does not only strive to attain values, he creates values. He is humility personified.
Just imagine this. When Oloye Adelabu Adebayo was trying stenuously to open doors of employment to people in his private capacity, no one accused him of arrogance, now that he has to glorify God for a prayer answered as he was able to provide meals for over six hundred people in Oyo state, the social media trolls said he must be arrogant for mentioning it in a public debate. If they have a candidate that matches such feat, why did they flinch to push him or her forward?
Yes. He is confident. Oloye Adelabu never believed in impossibility. To him, there is no obstacle that can't be overcome. I once wrote to attest to his bullet proof courage which started right from his Secondary School days. What a pity it that those who are now bruiting about that he is arrogant are naively confusing confidence with arrogance. Will they be tutored or are they deliberate obtuse to knowing that arrogance is not excessive confidence, it's really lack of it.
The arm chair critics who said Oloye Adelabu Adebayo is not humble enough because they are expecting him to eat an humble pie, which he has openly rejected are the ones who are arrogant in every sense of the word.
Oloye Adelabu Adebayo is in politics to honour God and will never conceal the greatness of God in his life to please any mortal who can not alter what the immortal God has bestowed on him. This is never to be mistaken for arrogance. Those who know him well will always stand up to defend this - Omo Penkelemesi is humble to a fault. Leave dirty politics and join the only available train to the Next level in Oyo state. O maa to penkele better.
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