In the company of pigs, luxuriating in muck, you normally don’t expect to find gold. But even if you did, you could be sure the gold would be so muddied, you would not recognise its glitter.
That, in a nutshell, aptly describes Ayo Fayose and company. Though the self-confessed formerDanfo driver now bears the rather exotic prefix of “His Excellency”, over the long-suffering Ekiti people, that is not unlike dressing a pig in exquisite clothing and expensive jewellery. The pig is not fulfilled until it drags everything in the mud.
So, it is with Ekiti Kete and their enfant terrible governor. But then, he was — and still is? — a choice in which they were — still are? — well pleased!
When a governor-elect packs the mob and heads for the sanctity of the courts to sack their lordships, simply because he wanted to willy-nilly truncate a case, you need no soothsayer to prophesy his tenure would be anarchy amalgamated.
When the same unstable character had exited in disgrace during his first coming, and cases of alleged sleaze still weighed him down even as he prepared for what is turning out to be even a more fraudulent second, then you can blame the Ekiti themselves for merrily hugging perdition like a long lost lover.
So, if Temitope Aluko, PhD voluntarily, and on TV, swore he committed perjury to shield Fayose’s alleged election rigging from the censure of the courts, you can say it’s only a community of low-lifers watching one another’s back until the greed that united them tore them apart.
Fayose has been crude and uncouth beyond measure. His penchant for the vulgar, the ludicrous and the utter irrational has been as low-life as his gubernatorial office is supposed to be high. It especially rankles that his has been a lunatic rod, smashing, without let, Ekiti Kete’s pristine decency.
So, if Tope Aluko, with his PhD would sink so low to do what he claimed to have done with Fayose and company, just to billet Fayose in power for a gaseous promise, it simply shows that education without character is stew without salt — complete waste. Indeed, only the shallow calls to the shallow!
Still, nothing can explain or excuse the president of the Federal Republic sitting with electoral bandits to plot a grand subversion of the polls. Yet, that is what Aluko, in his sensational revelations on Channels TV, alleged former President Goodluck Jonathan to have done.
To boot, the ex-president also allegedly gifted the electoral conspirators a total sum of US $37 million to go forth and brazenly rig the polls, with licit and illicit armies — by the one, committing lawful Nigerian troops to wilful lawless duties; by the other, subverting lawful coercion, under his watch, with free-wheeling criminal enforcers.
Provocation of provocations! This “cross-border” rig-squad had to be under the alleged command of Chris Uba, all the way from Anambra, a controversial fellow involved in the seizure and illegal detention of his state governor, Dr. Chris Ngige, back in 2003!
Pray, what was going on in the Jonathan presidential heart of darkness? Sheer desperation or something much more sinister?
Whatever it was, Ekitikete is much worse for it today. Shame!
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