The meteoric rise of Oloye Bayo Adelabu in Oyo state politics is fast causing some members of the opposition what is known in medical lingo as "ataraxy". Let me for the sake of this piece call it "political ataraxy"
When I read a petition allegedly written by the one 'handshake campaign organization" calling for the immediate arrest of the governorship candidate of APC in Oyo state, Oloye Bayo Adelabu, I need no more evidence to read the bold letters of self-defeatism of the group who claimed to be acting in "loco parentis" for the ADC party governorship candidate. The next thing on my mind is the title of KC Bokadia film released in 2015. Wonder what the title is? *Dirty politics".
In what reminds one of a despicable "Bo ba o pa' (creep up to him and kill) style of political desperadoes of past, the estranging view of politics as a dirty game is one thing I found too confounding to ever imagine will play out at this time in our own pacesetter state.
Those who drafted the petition, craftily masked their real intent from it's beginning, they finally and unwittingly couldn't hide till the end. They can only be clever by half. Read the final paragraph of their putrid missive, that fits into what Immanuel Kant categorised as "empty as thoughts without content" and you will easily discover the blindspots in the poorly worded attack. Call it a fundamental assault on morality and you will not be too far from the answer.
At a time when the political community world over, is upping the game with issue based campaigns, the "litigants" here are ensconced in poisoning the political environment by resorting to blackening of another candidate's reputation to score a cheap political goal. Can someone tell the "handshake campaign organization" that their handshake is moving beyond a shoulder? They harried the police with flurry of petitions when Omo Penkelemesi is, is fast becoming unstoppable!
When they couldn't match Adelabu's hard-nosed political strategy which has made him a candidate to beat, who is by all indices building up an impregnable lead among all the candidates, they now take to cheap blackmail. They inveighed against him through petition writing as an alternative. A jarring defeat is staring them at the face, they are deliberately obtuse, they have lost the strength in the fist, now employing fury. Tell them, omo Penkelemesi is indestructible.
Carelessly, they let open the lid of their cesspool to foul the air, unbeknown to them, the electorates are impervious to bad political odours. The "hand shakers" are demanding for immediate arrest of Adelabu for "his culpability in the deaths and injury of several person on his campaign train". They claimed without giving any clue, that the people's choice who can not hurt a fly is keeping in his trail "thugs armed to the teeth with sophisticated weapons". In their circular reasoning, a man who want to heal his state must start by killing his people first. Check out those hands before you shake them, they must be full of germs. Shakespeare must have predicted that a society will one day harbour some people with a killer handshake before he warned that "there is dagger in men's smile".
The evil petitioners are obviously stunned by the popular support given to Adelabu wherever he goes. They are envious of the mammoth crowd that troop out in droves to show love to the one they believe loves them back. The belly-aching politicians now want to hang Adelabu by half before the election by given him a bad name. Has it not been said that "he that is given a bad name is half -hanged'. You have failed! Try another gymicks. Stop this wakefulness that wakes into nothing.
Very soon, mark my words, the hunters will turn to the hunted. Questions will inevitably arise as to the identity of the "mark men" they were referring to in their petition to the IG. He that asserts must prove. They must be deluding themselves if they ever think that their flam to besmirch Adelabu's reputation will fly. At the end, they will be clobbered for misinforming the police and the public by extension.
In their last line, a fallacy that shows the underbelly of their evil intent, they cried out for" rejection of Adelabu in the coming poll and by extension his party". I just smiled loftly reading through the cloak and dagger story and, truly yours, I couldn't help but recommend to them a tranquilizer called "atarax" as a cure for their advanced stage "political ataraxy". May you all be healed to witness the Next level of advancement that omo Penkelemesi is bringing to the people of Oyo state.
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