[size=14pt]Omisore: Thugs And Monsters Are Coming[/size]

The chickens have started to come home and they are roosting like no man’s business. The latest twist in the amending macabre dance of the PDP in Osun State is the virtual declaration of rebellion by some contestants involved in the gubernatorial sweepstake in Osun State.
Over 16 contestants for the PDP gubernatorial nomination in Osun have set up a parallel secretariat and appointed their own state executive. This action represents a foretaste of what is to come in the next fewweeks. It is going to get very, very nasty. Although the PDP as a formation as scant regard for any form of democracy (internal or external) at least some of the participants in the guber sweepstake thought or at least were led to believe that the party would put up a semblance of outward appearance.



However, with Iyiola Omisore involved, their hope was always going to be any illusion. Omisore is the classic product of the long military interregnum in Nigeria. He is the classic epitome of that breed contemptuously referred to as the ‘militician’. The breed of whom Omisore is exemplar have a deep distaste, an overarching aversion to democracy. Perhaps ‘aversion’ is an incorrect description, contempt will better reflect their real disposition to democracy.
It is rather naïve, to say the least, for Fatai Akinbade and his collaborators to expect that Iyiola Omisore will condescend to tolerate a primary election. A man of Akinbade’s experience ought to have known better. For Omisore it’s been a long time coming, and it’s now or never. In worldview this is really do or die. And do or die it is going to be. For an apostle of the Obasanjo school of political chicanery this is no time for niceties. The exasperation which has led Akinbade and co. to set up a parallel secretariat will intensify in the weeks ahead.
Omisore is the high priest of the use of thugs, monsters and dance as legitimate tools of political warfare. For Omisore politics is not a discourse, a contest of ideas, it is war.
The war being waged by the militician is all about the sharing of war booty. Omisore has not expended financial, physical and emotional energy for him to now play by or abide with any ruler of democracy Omisore’s conception of politics as warfare means that the PDP nomination will be obtained with guns and thugs. There is simply no other route. For this reason, Akinbade and co. have simply not seen anything yet.
The dissident PDP contestants are frankly hoist on a petard. They are being hypocritical if they pretend that they did not know. All of them bear vicarous liability for the rape of Osun State. They all bear moral culpability for the blatant violation of the democratic rights of the citizens which led to the massive rigging of the 2007 gubernatorial election. That election left in its wake a horrible litany of broken hopes. Sadly, it deprived Osun of a superb opportunity to re-position and escape from poverty.
It was victory delayed. Aregbesola will get there no doubt. When he does, he will implement a remarkably put together programme of social and economic transformation. For osun it will lay the foundation of a farewell to poverty. That moment will still come. By the grace of God Who is always so munificent in His beneviolence, that moment of glory is just round the corner.
After 50 years of inglorious and disappointing under – achievement a new dawn beckons in Nigeria. Democracy has been fought for and obtained and it is being watered with the blood of matrays. The names
of the avatars who fought for democracy will ring eternal. As we remember the MKO Abiolas, the Rewanes, the Kudirat Abiolas, the Baguadu Kalthos amongst others as well as the legion of the unknowns
and unsongs, we are all now resolute in our determination to say – NEVER AGAIN!
We say NEVER AGAIN! To the crams politics of blood, thunder and the loss of lives represented by Iyiola Omisore and his cohorts, whatever happens in the PDP primaries, the handwriting is on the wall. The end
beckons for Omisore’s politics of thuggery and blood. In case Omisore doesn’t get it, we are in a new era. It’s a new era, where a determined people will insist that all votes are counted right there in front of them. As the Americans are wont to say – it’s a whole newball game.
The French philosopher Victor Hugo famously observed that – “All the armies in the world cannot stop an idea whose time has come,” Harken to these wise words Iyiola Omisore. It’s curtains up for the politics
of thuggery and violence. You have missed the boat and your time has gone. A new day beckons in Osun State and the men of violence like Iyiola Omisore will have no space in it. NEVER AGAIN!
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