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Ogbeni, as he is fondly called, has lost his magic wand. He was in town yesterday and Osogbo was not locked down. Ilesa, where he comes from and from where he began his home coming trail was cool and calm at the time of his visit. No long convoy of vehicles and motorcycles to indicate that an important personality was within the vicinity.
The scanty crowd around him in Ilesa, from the pictures officially released by his men, was a clear indication that Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola has lost it.
From Ajegunle area to Old Garage, Osogbo, where in the past, people abandoned whatever they were doing to catch the glimpse of the man who once called the shot in Lagos and Osun State, there was nothing to indicate ‘Ogbeni ti de (Ogbeni has come).’ A few who tried to show interest asked rhetorically ‘se bi ati pari election…(since elections over, why the shameless streets show).’
At the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, where his men used the photographic effect to convey the impression that they had a crowd, all the spaces that in the past would be filled to brim were empty. It happened because Ogbeni has lost the broom. He could not even brand it yesterday. That was his talisman. That was his logo. But they are all gone.
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The strategists around him too compounded the Wednesday’s outing for him as they were confused as to which narrative to portray in the media. While journalists who covered the event reported his ‘contrite’ comment, I will return to that later, Osun Defender, Ogbeni’s newspaper which he deployed to spread false and misleading stories about the Oyetola’s administration, reported something else, making it look like the journalists misrepresented him.
In fact, in most of the WhatsApp platforms I belong, I saw staffers of the paper insisting that what the journalists reported were false. But by the time I got hold of the video this morning, I realized that it was those around Aregbesola that were being economical with the truth. They were being clever by half. But I am not surprised; it is their style, always trying to play the victim.
Back to Ogbeni’s ‘contrite’ comment, without going too much into the details of his Ikire’s statement of ‘I used two years to beg Oyetola…’ which I know was untrue, I will leave members of the public and my readers to do a contextual analysis of the message below and draw their conclusions if indeed it was an apology:
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“…I did not request for anything from my successor talkless of being denied such thing but some people just feel envious of our presence. Despite all of these, I seek forgiveness from those who felt offended with some of our actions.
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