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REVEALED: How Ekiti Obas Rebuffed Fayose’s Plan On Anti-Aluko Plot
By the day, Governor Ayo Fayose is losing his strategic constituencies
and support base that saw him smiling after committing treason to
seize the governorship seat of the state on June 21, 2014.
Few days ago, the teachers that swore with their children to swim or
sink with Fayose went on strike after discovering that swearing on
oath to support Fayose was a self and willful sentence to the life of
poverty as against the life of abundance the governor promised them
during campaigns.
Okada riders nowadays curse Fayose deep and loud on the streets.
Markets women have since discovered that what they had strapped to
their backs is a viper instead of a helper, and have since “unstrap”
Fayose the viper to seek solace elsewhere.
The last of Fayose’s buffers, the ranks of Ekiti obas who think of
themselves first and far above other consideration, have also realised
that Fayose is not a man to rely on or partner with in the game of
self-interest. After watching Fayose using them to ward off various
crises and selling the governor to Nigerians as the best to happen to
Ekiti State, the obas have now realised that they are a losing partner
in the game of ludo that Fayose has come to play with the lives of
Ekiti people.
Just yesterday, Fayose lost his last support base, as his cronies in
their crowns raised their walking sticks to spit on the governor,
accusing him of selfishness and declaring him an unconscionable
promise-breaker who has left them in penury while he swims in the
opulence of the seat of government.
The road to the tiff of anger all started when Fayose invited all Obas
to an emergency meeting. As usual, majority of them showed up. All
they expected from the governor were apologies over failure to pay the
arrears of their salaries and allowances.
As they sat expecting good news, the Chief of Staff, Dipo Anisulowo,
sauntered in to the room where the obas were seated. The obas were
shocked when they realised that the governor himself was not the one
to address them. More shock emerged when Anisulowo started delivering
the governor’s message.
Anisulowo told the obas that the governor would like them to write a
joint communique condemning Dr Tope Aluko’s expose on Ekitigate. The
obas were also to issue subtle threats to the Federal Government if it
goes ahead in its alleged plan to ruffle Fayose’s government.
After a few seconds of pin-drop silence, anger seized the Kabiyesis,
notably the Olojudo of Ido and Arinjale of Ise-Ekiti, with several
others hissing and complaining bitterly.
But the anger from Fayose’s arch-supporter in the palace, the Oore of
Otun, was almost the hottest and uncontrollable.
In anger, he stood up to accuse the Chairman of Ekiti Council of Obas,
the Ologotun of Ogotun, of inviting them to such as meeting. Angrily,
he reportedly told Ologotun to resign if he cannot lead Ekiti Obas,
wondering why his pre-occupation to save Fayose’s job should be more
important to him than fighting for the cause of the obas to receive
the backlog of their salaries.
One by one, the obas warned their chairman never to call them to that
kind of a meeting. For the first time, the obas told Fayose to leave
them out of politics, counselling him to face his problem in his
Ekitigate saga.
Like in Macbeth, the words of William Shakespeare are on the marble in
Ekiti politics, to wit: “Minutely, revolt upbraids his faith breach:
those he commands only live in command; nothing in love.”
After breaching faith with Ekiti people, the remnants of his die-hard
loyalists who nursed a misplace hope of living in court with the
governor to a supple life have since struck discordant chords, racing
to their tents to restrategise.
Fate is such a cruel trickster particularly when those that should
manage their fates throw away the lessons of experience like the obas
did when they threw their weight behind a trickster and fraudulent
fellow who made away with their money in Ekiti State through a poultry
project fraud and losing many promising Ekiti sons to a blood-thirsty
gangster masquerading as the messiah of the people.
It baffles all that the obas’ pay, which is in first line charge in
the federal allocation and cannot be subjected to any deduction, is
not being paid by Fayose even after cutting their pay by half on
assumption of office while at the same time increasing his personal
security vote from N100m to N250 million.
