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‘Day he swore naked with female lawmaker,others’
•Inside the shrine in his Shagamu home
By DARE ODUFOWOKAN,
KUNLE OWOLABI and KEHINDE ABIODUN
•Inside the shrine in his Shagamu home
In the wake of the publication of the nude photograph of a member of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon Wale Alausa, there were still lingering indications yesterday that the whole story may not have been told, despite the huge controversy it has already generated.
The lawmaker’s nude photograph was published in The Compass newspaper, owned and promoted by Ogun State governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, with whom Alausa is said not to have the best of relationships.
And adding a fresh dimension to the saga, Alausa, in an exclusive chat with NationalLIFE on Friday, sensationally revealed that Governor Justus Gbenga Daniel, also swore naked at a shrine in his Sagamu home, in the presence of a female member of the State House of Assembly and some other lawmakers, sometimes last year.
While throwing the latest bombshell, the lawmaker representing Ijebu-Ode state constituency claimed that aside his nude picture published on Monday, there were other pictures, including those he took with the governor while both of them were stark naked, during the blood oath session last year.
Alausa alleged that the published photographs were manipulated to give the impression that he was alone in the shot. “The pictures were manipulated. I was not the only one there. There are some I took with Governor Daniel himself. He, too, was naked like me. There were also naked pictures of other lawmakers loyal to the governor. All members of the G-9 took the naked oath. I mean all, not one was left out,” Alausa insisted.
Furthermore, the embattled lawmaker challenged Governor Daniel to publish the remaining photographs in situ. According to Alausa, it is important that the public is not deceived in any way.
“Like I told you, the oath was taken in order for us to pledge our loyalty to Daniel. He facilitated it and participated actively. In fact, in order to convince me that he meant business, he stripped himself naked along with me and we took pictures too. I challenge him to also publish these in his papers, otherwise, he remains a liar and treacherous fellow.”
Asked if any female member of the House of Assembly took the nude oath, Alausa said not a single member of the original group of nine pro-Daniel legislators was excluded. “Male or female, as long as you are a member of the pro-Daniel group, you must take the nude oath. I am telling you that there are other pictures of the other lawmakers. We all took the nude oath in Daniel’s presence one after the other,” Alausa said.
Corroborating Alausa’s claim that Governor Daniel cajoled even female lawmakers to strip, down to their birthday, suit in a bid to convince him of their eternal loyalty, the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon. Tunji Egbetokun said the report he got from some of the lawmakers who participated in the barbaric ritual confirmed that a female member of the House was involved.
“All of them were naked. A particular lady with a very big … these things (using his hand to describe the buttock, hips and breasts of the lady in question) even removed her own. Let him continue publishing the pictures. The Yoruba have a saying that ‘If a bastard in a household has not grown up, the house will be peaceful.’ Now, we have the bastard of Ogun State,” Egbetokun stated.
Asked why he did not participate in the oath taking exercise, the Speaker explained that contrary to what the governor and his propagandists are trying unsuccessfully to force down the throats of Nigerians, the nude oath sessions were only for lawmakers who want to pledge their loyalty to the governor.
“That is why I am challenging him publicly to publish my own picture if he has it. There has never been a time I pledged my loyalty to Daniel. My loyalty has always been to the State and my party, not to an individual. So, I was never part of the shameful ritual,” the Speaker explained.
“Let me tell you. I once took oath with him. But I did not take the oath naked,” Egbetokun added.
On the fears being expressed by his friends and associates that he may soon come under the spell of the oath he took with the governor, Alausa, who is representing the Ijebu-Ode state constituency in the House affirmed that no effect of the oath taking would come upon him in any way.
“Since he (Daniel) is the one that broke the oath by exposing what we did in secret to the world, there is no spiritual consequence of any effect on me, because I did not break any oath. What we agreed on was that I will not join in the party to impeach him. That, I will not leak the group’s secrets. Daniel has no honour. He has no shame. He is a ritualist and a completely dishonest person. The governor is a sodomist and a very treacherous individual,” the lawmaker alleged.
But in a sharp reaction, one of the arrowheads of the G-15 lawmakers, Hon. Hadijat Oladapo-Adeleye, put a lie to insinuations that she is the female lawmaker described by the Speaker.
“Apart from Alausa, I can confirm to the world that Governor Daniel does not have the nude photograph of any other progressive lawmaker (G-15 member) in this House again. If he has my nude photograph, let him cause it to be published because I am sure that it does not exist,” the female lawmaker quipped.
“We all pity Alausa. There was serious pressure on his family; that how can somebody from Ogun East, the governor’s constituency, join a group, which has been giving Governor Daniel problems? We learnt that prominent family members and community leaders coerced him and eventually succeeded in making him take an oath naked, that he would no longer fight the governor.
“He was alone in the oath-taking thing. The rest of us are not involved. It was like, they set a trap for him, that after taking the oath, they would release it to the press and then use it to send fears into the rest of us.”
Hadijat added that the oath-taking saga was only a digression, as she and her colleagues would not be deterred in “performing our oversight functions of making the executive arm responsive to the yearnings and aspirations of the masses.