“Two truths are told, as happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme. – I thank you, gentlemen – This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth?”
– Macbeth (Shakespeare)
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]gun State is going through its trying times, no doubt. Men of honor are gradually becoming scarce, and many more who dared to speak the truth to power are endangered. You don’t have to offend the gods to be afflicted; your right to life and freedom is already compromised. Once you are afflicted, first they will find a reason for how and where you offended the gods. And they will get willing “choruses” to echo your sins.
Dapo Abiodun has turned Ogun into a police state. Could it be that there is much to hide about the turbulence of the last four years? Or is there a fear of an imminent loss at the Governorship election tribunal?
Let us reason together. The allegations of ballot printing were levied against Tokunbo Talabi’s Superflux before the EFCC, ICPC, and CCB in what the petitioner, HURIWA, and Dr. Mike Ozekhome claim is a breach of the Oath of Office by a government official who is still in active service.
In order to push back the narrative, Talabi was looking for a co-accomplice and sold the story to the security agencies that the allegation will “consume” all of us if you do not come to my rescue. He goaded them to look beyond himself to the larger picture that the entire election will be declared not credible if the allegations stand.
But come to think of it, Talabi was accused of manipulation in the Governorship election and not the Presidential election of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which his boss, Dapo Abiodun, did not believe in in the first place. The matter then becomes the tale of “Aje egbodo t’o nwa eni kun’ra”.
It is this line of lies that Talabi and Dapo Abiodun are trying earnestly to make the universal truth to justify the continuous incarceration of Femi Davies.
Our security system should recognize that Talabi’s rights are as good as Femi Davies’. You cannot hold the hands of one for another in a contest of rights.
If Talabi alleges an infraction on his right, he is not Nigeria, not a state institution; he is just a citizen like everyone else. Let him go before the anti-graft and conduct agencies to clear himself of all allegations instead of using strong-arm tactics to hold another citizen down.
#FreeFemiDavies
Ojelabi, the publisher of Freelanews, is an award winning and professionally trained mass communicator, who writes ruthlessly about pop culture, religion, politics and entertainment.
