Sola Abegunde’s piece again and always, reads like a village gossip session disguised as political commentary.

When a man is looking for relevance, he abandons facts and reaches for “efun” and “eedi,” that is simply confessing that logic has deserted him. This trash is not analysis; it is superstition for the politically desperate.

Calling Governor Seyi Makinde a gutter fighter because he responded to provocation is intellectual dishonesty. When a man threatens your political house, you don’t quote proverbs and hide behind curtains. You answer him.

Silence is not maturity; it is cowardice dressed as wisdom.

The idea that Makinde should have ignored Wike is the fantasy of people who mistake fear for strategy. Politics is not Sunday school. When someone declares interest in hijacking/over throwing your government/party structure, you don’t pretend he is talking to himself. You confront him or prepare to be displaced. Wike did same to Fubara and others.

All this noise about court judgments is pure mischief. No final court has handed PDP to any faction permanently. What exist are temporary and contested rulings, the same type Nigeria has seen in APC and PDP crises before. To sell interim decisions as eternal victory is either ignorance, stupidity or propaganda.

Painting Wike as some unstoppable political god is laughable. Influence is not ownership. Shouting from Abuja does not turn a man into landlord of Oyo PDP. PDP is not governed by muscle or ministerial swagger but by party constitution and state structures. Don’t underrate the intelligent people of Oyo State or insult them by portraying that picture of Wike coming down to Oyo State from Ekwere to rule them.

The obsession with caretaker committees and expulsions only exposes confusion. Both camps claim to have expelled each other, but don’t forget that in politics, where the chairman is most time, counts first. That Wike so called victory, is not victory; that is mutual delusion. Until a final judgment settles the matter, all these their noise are political skits for social media consumption.

Dragging INEC into the matter of a party secretariat is another display of shallow thinking. INEC does not build party offices. Parties do. INEC only deals with candidates and official submissions. Pretending otherwise is either ignorance of the law or deliberate deceit.

Blaming Makinde for PDP’s 2015 loss is historical nonsense. PDP lost because Nigerians were deceived by these corrupt and arrogant people in power now, not because of a governor who was not even in national leadership then.

As for 2023, the G-5 agitation was about zoning injustice, not treason. Even those involved said so openly. Turning that into a moral sermon now is hypocrisy in its purest form.

Blaming one person on a political disagreement is comedy. Politics is not church, and Makinde is not seeking salvation from anyone except God the Father. Alliances shift by interest, not by confession. Only unserious minds confuse strategy with sin.

Until Governor Seyi Makinde says otherwise, your prediction that Makinde has no future in PDP is the loudest joke in the article. Governors control party machinery in their states. Ministers do not. Abuja noise does not replace grassroots power. Anyone who thinks otherwise has never won an election.

The claim that Makinde is no longer PDP is a very big lie. No court has expelled him. No INEC document has removed him. He remains a PDP governor by law and by reality. Writing otherwise does not make it true.

Threatening a “killer blow” is the language of boxing fans, not politicians except for political jobbers looking for relevancy like you. Oyo PDP is not a street fight prize. PDP belongs to its members, not to the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, no matter how loudly he declares interest from Abuja, Oyo State knows their son.

Mr Sola, your entire article is built on confusion: noise mistaken for victory, court motions mistaken for ownership, influence mistaken for legitimacy. It is propaganda wrapped in Yoruba proverbs.

If anyone is roaming into another man’s political territory, announcing control without mandate, that is the true definition of vagabond politics. And no amount of superstition, sermonizing, or name-calling can change that.

 

Tallest Innocent, senior special assistant on Igbo Community Development to Oyo State Governor, writes from Ibadan.