deji15:


That post was not meant for you. In stealing state funds, receiving FG stolen funds to fund his campaign and personally enriching himself cum rigging, yes Fayose is brilliant. I wonder why we still complain of lack of good roads stable power, schools, hospitals etc when we can easily admit that looters are brilliant.

Firefire:
My response elsewhere...

Firefire:


You are right, but we need to forget the past NOW!


The Onijekuje olojukokoro ati apa is a confirmed Capitalist with no real interest of the Yoruba race but how to enlarge his personal empire and territory.

Babasessy:

Awo Family Without An Awo By Sam Omatseye (The Offensive Article)







The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.

It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”

Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.

Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close.  The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.

But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.

It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

balosunky:
since the day he knew they are both odudwas

HungerBAD:
I am starting to like Fayose.

He just spoke the truth,and nothing else.

I salute you Fayose. The conspiracy against Tinubu will fail,because like I said in an earlier article,the man brings in progressives together for a greater good.

As it stands today. Tinubu is the only influential political figure in Nigeria,and a lot of people are not happy about that,and for the fact he is Yoruba,is even making them more angry.

The right to be called a leader is earned,and Tinubu has earned that right.

Fayose,for speaking the truth for the first time in your life,I might start to look at you some other way.

Keep it up.

san316:
Some mischief makers are trying to apply the divide and rule tactics in order to weaken APC and some tribalistic APC supporters are falling for it.

I can remember vividly during the senate presidency imbroglio, all PDP supporters were calling for Tinubus head because they felt he wanted to impose his choice candidate and by extension gain full control of the legislature. He didnt succeed and they supported saraki all the way feeling happy that Tinubu has been cut to size.

Now they see that Tinubus influence is wavering and they want to use it as a strategy to break APC since jagaban may pull out his supporters.

Their ploys will surely fail. Open ur eyes zombies

gbosaa:



It's called Tribalism.

CandyDiamond:
;Dthe man that the SW hated so much the same way they hated Obasanjo, when Igbos finish making Obasanjo the president of Nigeria they came back to reap where they did not sow and Obasanjo taught them a lesson of their life.

proeast:
Tinubu thinks he is smart, now he is being schooled on the game!

Dshocker:
Humiliation to Tinubu is a humiliation to the yoruba people... Is he tryna say that the yoruba people see's Tinuba as a semi god or something.

NotNairalandi:
please what is Tinubu? Tinubu is an enigma!

Myde4naija:
shut up

Progressive01:
100% confirmed smartie!!

cc: HungerBad.

CandyDiamond:
;Dthe man that the SW hated so much the same way they hated Obasanjo, when Igbos finish making Obasanjo the president of Nigeria they came back to reap where they did not sow and Obasanjo taught them a lesson of their life.

id911:
I respect this great warrior called Peter 'The Rock' Fayose so much. How I wish he can denounce and reject SW and join us in SE/SS. He likes his people but I'm always surprise why Yorubas don't like him.

On a second thought I'm not too surprise though because Yorubas hate all their prominent leaders that worked with Abacha but surprisingly sing praises of Buhari who also worked with Abacha and even defended Abacha's corruption. Pathetic!!!

bejeiodus:
I don't understand why the face-off between Tinubu and members of his political party has been reduced to an ethnic war. Tinunu took the biggest gamble of his political career by aligning with Buhari to win the 2015 Presidential election but sadly he is getting the short end of the stick

He was a beautiful bride prior to the election but he is slowly being made a pariah by those he helped secure victory. Such is the vicissitude of politics.

Tinubu's motives for teaming up with Buhari's CPC were never about the advancement of the Yorubas. If it were so, he would have insisted that the devolution of power and true federalism be made a cardinal part of the APC's campaign manifesto. Two agendas the Yorubas have always pushed for.

It is heart warming that his political foes have thrown their weight behind him since the political onslaught on him began. I only hope he is learning some salutary lessons and will build on this open show of support by his hitherto political adversaries.

oloriooko:
Then the Yorubas were humiliated long time ago by playing second fiddle to an Hausa man just to win elections
Jagaban is a greedy self centered arrogant eediot with no viable plan for the Yoruba race
Apa lasan lasan, akotileta Omo ale

aylagos:
If anything happen to tinubu and Yourba take action that would be the end of Nigeria.

Modified: some mumu they quote me and saying rubbish cos they think Yoruba can embark on failed mission like biafrud.

Seunpaul01:
What gibberish is this.
Tinubu is a respected politician, we all know that. But he his never the number one Yoruba man. No matter the humiliation he received it can only be accounted to his name and those that bears it. Any humiliation he received is to his family.

Sometimes I felt bad and angered when I hear this man speak. Why would a sane man, Yoruba at that, put the blame and misdeeds of one man on another only because he is related to them.

PETUK:
i like Fayose ,but since when did he actually care about Tinubu?

mccoy47:
Bla bla bla


Nothing new here!
Since time immemorial Afonjas have continually been raped by their slave masters the almajiris!
Yet they never learn!
Give afonjas anoda opportunity and they would still repeat the same thinking they are doing igbos!
Mtchewww.

Sad though!