The sulky Mimiko

Posted by: Hard Ball on June 7, 2013

Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko is a good example in this democracy of a man whose small mind is getting smaller. Recently, he was one of those who took part in the Nigerian Governors’ Forum election in which Governor Rotimi Amaechi won. Mimiko said he did not lose because he withdrew. Nobody, not Hardball, will believe such fantasy. He was on the side of Jang, and if Jang lost, then he knew he, too, lost.

Rather than take it in its stride and bite the bullet, he decided to play an empty peacock. He said the election was not free and fair, and later he said he did not believe the video because he was not there. But rather than wrap his tail around his buttocks and keep mum, the Jonathan lackey in the Southwest would not stop talking.

When the 2007 election took place, and the progressive minded fought on the behalf of his mandate, he forgot that it was not about him. It was about the principle. He does not know that it is not about his big ego and that when a person is called Iroko, it does not mean that he cannot be hewn down.

Well, he saw that in a little way when his big ego was made little in a little room where he contested and lost an election. It took a little gadget to expose the big ego of his.

Because the Aregbesola video did not capture him, he felt little. Because he felt little, he decided it was not real. Then he attacked Amaechi by saying that the chairman of the forum had no evidence that he (Mimiko) voted. Is it the duty of Amaechi to show who voted? He should direct that question at the returning officer, Asissana Okauru, who counted the votes. The video showed clearly that all of the 35 governors, including Mimiko, were present in the room when Okauru counted, showing the face of each ballot paper to the men. Why did he not protest and say, look, this is not a ballot paper. This is not where I voted. Neither he nor his 15 other losers raised a finger. Was the super-intelligent, hyper-progressive, agile and defiant Mimiko under a spell? Who so cast the spell of silence on the great Iroko that he could not speak when he was being swindled out of his mandate?

Hardball believes that Iroko should quietly go to his new master in Aso Rock and explain sincerely that he was outwitted, outplayed, outmaneuvered, outclassed, outvoted, outflanked and in the end, he went out sulking. He has not stopped sulking.

Democracy is bigger than all of us. If he wants to pay back Jonathan for his work in the last Ondo State polls, this is a tacky way to go about it.

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If you check Mimiko's record in the past, you will agree that this attitude is his lifestyle. He has always been a snitch and an untrusted but intelligent politician. Mimiko wouldn't do this if he was seeking Election in Ondo State. He understands that he will securely see thru his 8yr tenure as Gov of Ondo. Now he is trying to shoot his gun in a bigger space to show that he is more nationalistic in his politics than his contemporaries in SW. Only time will tell if this works for him...