I find it very ridiculous and shameful that some aides of Governor Dapo Abiodun are crying all over social media about the result that they got in the just concluded governorship election.
While it is a known fact that being in power blinds one from seeing reality, being drunk in the utopia has always been a recipe for disaster.
I don’t know how Dapo got so confident that he is loved across the state so much that if he gave a ticket to anyone, such person would win.
The illusion of success and love his aides and close associates built upon him to milk him blinded his eyes from reality.
The election result in Ogun State is the worst report card any governor in the history of Nigeria has ever gotten.
An incumbent governor whose party convincingly won the presidential and senatorial elections just three weeks ago, securing three senatorial and nine House of Representatives seats yet had to scheme violence across the state only to come out with a meagre 13,915 difference is an absolute declaration of rejection.
Rather than accepting the reality and finding a way to get back to the good books of the people, his political friends and aides who failed to deliver their individual areas are all over social media talking about betrayal.
The concept of betrayal is that someone you trust and have favour over worked against you when you were helpless.
None of these applies to the governor. He was neither helpless nor did he have favour hanging over anyone.
Dapo Abiodun went around town boasting that he was a brand in Ogun state and had total control of the state. He was on several tapes saying he was so confident of victory, but he is only campaigning to ensure the difference is one of highest in the state’s history.
He was basing his popularity on the result of the Feb. 18 election and tales of deception his friends and aides were using to massage his ego.
Governor Abiodun is in dire need of new friends. The set of friends every politician should have. They do not enjoy patronage from the government and are bold and courageous to tell the home truth when it is mostly not pleasant. They are the realists and pragmatists around the corridors of power.
When aides and political appointees start the cosmetic garment of honour, the friends will shut it down and tell the governor the public’s feelings towards him.
No one betrayed Governor Abiodun. If there was any betrayal, it was from his aides who placed him on a pedestal he was not fit for. The betrayal came from aides and associates who got money to ensure victory but diverted it; they only shared N1000 from the N5000 governor Abiodun gave them to pay for votes at the polling units.
If I were the governor, these individuals would be in different cells explaining how they spent the money.
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