The recent demolition by the Ogun State Government of a five storey building owned by Yeye Olufunke, the spouse of a former Governor of the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has demonstrated the criminal brand of politics practised by the supposed elite members of the society who are privileged to climb up the executive seat as governors of a state. Some weeks ago, the news was abroad of how workers believed to be agents of the state government chose an unholy hour of 3am on a Sunday to unleash bulldozers on the building said to be worth more than N1 billion under police protection.

The government, which allegedly gave the owner only three days notice did indeed give reasons for its action.

It cited inadequate parking space, lack of a muster point and airspace.

It is a well known fact that Daniel, the representative of Ogun East Senatorial District, and the Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, have political differences. Despite both standing for election this year as All Progressives Congress candidates, the governor has accused his predecessor of working against his reelection. Curiously, they are also both from Ogun East Senatorial District. While Daniel won his own senatorial election, Abiodun won in only two of the District’s nine local government areas in the governorship election. Of course, the exercise was greeted with outrage on the social media and among citizens.

A governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2023 polls in Ogun State, Segun Showunmi, in an open letter, urged President Bola Tinubu to call Governor Abiodun to order. Showunmi told Tinubu: “You are enabling Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, we keep reporting him but what we see is that the more we report him, the more you pamper him with access to you. It was funny how he made the trip to India coming on the heels of the allegation of a chairman of local government around interference with local government funds, will Ogun now feel safer under President Buhari, a Daura man and unsafe under a Yoruba man?


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