Opinion: Will Ekiti PDP forgive Fayose? by Bolanle Bolawole
Editor's note: Bolanle Bolawole, a social analyst, reviews a recent plea by former governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose, to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in the state to forgive him, especially as he knew he may have offended some people while in office.
Bolawole says Fayose's sins are more than what the former governor has confessed. He also wonders if the latter was actually remorseful and if he would get the needed forgiveness.
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I read reports that ex-Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state asked Ekiti Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on whose platform he was two-term governor to forgive him. To ask for forgiveness presupposes confession of sin(s) and admittance of guilt. Fayose reportedly mentioned his mindless campaign against Mrs Abiodun Olujimi in this year’s Ekiti South senatorial election as his sin. I dare to say that Fayose committed many other sins against Ekiti PDP - but that need not detain us here. As the elders say, once a guilty person knows and admits that he is guilty; delivering judgement becomes an easy and expeditious task. Fayose comes clean on that score. The other side of the coin, however, is to examine how genuine the remorse is, so that it is not just a smokescreen; so as to guide against a recurrence.
Those who advised Fayose on the course of action he took on Olujimi – whoever they were - were not friends but enemies. Never mind how closely they may stick to Fayose like his own skin. And if it was Fayose that misadvised himself, then, he took tainted, spur-of-the-moment decision – should we say, like biblical king Ahasuerus. He should never have driven himself into such a shithole.
Dayo Adeyeye is my professional colleague and I consider him a friend; nevertheless, truth must be told. Adeyeye rained abuses on Fayose and thereafter quit the PDP. He berthed in the APC and was a key factor in the rigging plots that “won” the governorship for Kayode Fayemi/APC. As eclectic, chameleonic, Janus-faced as Olujimi might allegedly have been, she still is, in my opinion, a better and more reliable PDP person than Adeyeye.
There was no commonsense at all in campaigning against Olujimi in that election simply because only Adeyeye and Olujimi were, practically-speaking, in that race. Asking the electorate not to vote for Olujimi was tantamount to asking them to vote for Adeyeye. Like Fayose, like Goodluck Jonathan! Men who, out of pettiness, invited thieves to rob their own homestead! Thank God Fayose, being a step ahead of Jonathan – and politically smarter – has now retraced his ignominious footsteps.
Ekiti PDP should forgive Fayose. And, congratulations, Olujimi is back in the Senate but let her not strut like the peacock! Her own shenanigans leave a sour taste in the mouth. One quality I admire in Fayose, though, is his boldness and courage to take a stand – even if on slippery grounds. Any time, any day, treading where angels fear to tread stands Fayose out of PDP’s maddening crowd!
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LAST WORD: The case of the four-year-old girl reportedly raped at Osogbo by one Oluwatomisin Oyelakin, who was driving the kid back home from school - Charleston Group of Schools, Kelebe, Osogbo - comes up again at, hopefully, the Osogbo High Court on the 18th of this month. Getting justice for both the victim and the vile paedophile is a task that must be done, regardless whose ox is gored!
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