Governor Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State is a 'special' Chief Executive in Nigeria indeed. Akala is 'special' in many ways! He is very unique when it comes to Governors who want to turn their natural black skin to white using bleaching chemicals to achieve this objective.

Akala is also 'special' among his peers because he looks every inch like an over-fed ancient 'Oba' or a royal father who believed before civilisation in a dead god whom he must appease with a goat or a chicken regularly in order to spare his kingdom and his kingship.

If we remember how and why the pop music icon, Michael Jackson, died then we are sorry for Akala and his cosmetic body. How, well before his celebrated demise, he became 'whiter' than the average whiteman -- all in vain search for something unnatural -- it becomes imperative appreciating the dangers inherent in bleaching one's God-given skin. I have never seen nor heard of any white man who was desperate to become 'black' or who underwent a plastic surgery in order to undo what the Creator put in place in His majestic wisdom!

Besides, Gov. Akala is about the only Governor in Nigeria whose love of chains and bangles cannot be ignored. 'Shining' always like the ex-dictator Ibrahim Babangida (who was known to have used chemicals also to 'polish' his physical features) Akala always appears publicly wearing gold wristwatch, gold-plated chains and bangles. Sometimes he reminds one of the 'bleaching' Congo-born France-based international popular musician Kofi Olomide whose attires and ornaments attract instant recognition wherever he goes.

I remember watching the superstar put up a great concert in "Le Zenith" in Paris France few years ago; his dancers were wonderfully comparable to those dancing for the Positive Force band led by the Nigerian Femi Kuti, the son of the late 'Abami Eda' Fela Kuti. They held people spell-bound with their masterful display of erotical dance-steps, jiggling their bodies in perfect response to the melody. I had equally watched Femi perform wonders with Youssou N'dour of Senegal in Abidjan's Hotel Ivoire theater many years ago.

One does not know how Alao-Akala as Governor is expecting his subjects to behave as regards the danger inherent in bleaching the skin and turning a God-given skin from black to white or 'yellow'. Again when the youths look at him wearing expensive watch, necklace and bangles they may be thinking that their governor is a rich 'superstar' comparable to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (of 'Commando' fame) or 50 Cent, the American rapping megastar!

Profiling Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala is a hard task indeed. It is hard in the sense that the man represents many things embedded in one. Profiling him accurately is akin to profiling the 'modern' Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar or the notorious porn megastar, the Italy-born America-based Rocco Siffredi. Akala is to Oyo what Siffredi is to the porn industry world-wide! Like the King Nebu of old (whom God banished to the jungle to eat grass like animals) he is the 'king' of the jungle in Ibadan!

Like Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State Alao-Akala is a PDP Governor in a Yoruba region of Nigeria where the opposition has reclaimed the states (Ondo, Ekiti, Osun) the ruling party had 'won' through organized electoral fraud! Like Gov. Daniel, an executive 'marabout' who derives joy in administering fetish oaths on his aides, sometimes in nude circumstances, Gov. Akala's marabouts could be found in Ogbomosho, his hometown, where they work diabolically for his spiritual well-being and political success!

Unlike Gbenga Daniel however (a notorious governor who wanted to rule Ogun State unchallenged as a monarch) Akala is working in harmony with the state house of assembly having compromised and cowed them. Gov. Daniel has since made it impossible for the state assembly to do its constitutionally-guaranteed oversight functions by manipulating and creating confusion that is still evident today. It is democratically antithetical for a minority to seek to command a majority! If in any doubt then ask the 'Kongi'!

Barely-educated or should I say a "semi-illiterate" (apology to Mr Sam Omatseye, the award-winning "The Nation" columnist) Adebayo Alao-Akala is a 'big man' with big dreams: he wants to continue beyond next year for another 4 years as Governor but that aspiration is left for the Oyo voters to decide upon. That Akala has failed as governor is an under statement. As a good student of 'Amala' politics Akala has become a monster Oyo people do not need either now or in the future.

Remember how this 'glamorous' Governor with fashion sense got into office as chief executive of Oyo State? When the late demon of Molete Lamidi Adedibu decided as the 'strong man' of Oyo politics to remove by force ex-Governor Rashidi Ladoja he employed both the state assembly and the 'agberos' to realise his wish. Akala, then deputy governor to the impeached Ladoja, was installed as the substantive governor, much to his delight.

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Lol I don't think that Akala is even that popular in Ogbomoso, he has always been a disgrace right since he was the local government chairman of Ogbomoso north. I believe his romance with corruption and amala politics knows no bounds. I believe if the opposition play their cards very well he should be out of Agodi by May.