The year 2020 has been a challenging one for most if not all of us, in more ways than one. Arguably though, one of the worst hit of the commotion that has been a year is one Mr Jide Sanwo Olu, aka "Cousin Jide", the Governor of Lagos State.

I'm confident when the "young" man (Jagaban says he's young, who are we to argue?) was taking the oath of office in 2019, he was just really signing up for signing cheques, free rent, free food, his face on TV, vibes and Insha Allah. If only he knew then what he knows now, probably, probably....

From December 2019 till date, it has been a steady avalanche of one chaos or the other.

We saw Jide at the beginning of the year trying to understand what Covid-19 really is and the consequent ramifications.

We saw him battle rigorously with if it was really necessary to shut down the commercial hub of Africa just to prevent ordinary death, afterall people die everyday?

When that finally and reluctantly happened, we watched with curiosity as as Jide raced to come up with funds and facilities needed to curb the deadly virus - in little time isolation centers sprung up all over Lagos.

Jide was like that dull child we all expected to fail his exams but then surprisingly he had done well.
We were happy and humbled at the same time but definitely we were not going to let him off so easily, we were going to watch and see, this was obviously a fluke.

Jide had barely begun to breathe some much needed air of respite when suddenly "out of thin air", the now famous #EndSARS protests started.

The suspense was in the air. How was Jide going to deal with these "jobless, recalcitrant children?"

"Pikin when say e papa nor go sleep, himsef nor go sleep!" - So at first, Jide attempted the intimidation approach, turn off the lights, get men of the same police they are protesting against to beat them up and seize their foams - Talk about genius?

Unfortunately though, no time passed before he realized that what he thought was water was actually diesel and what started as a small protest in front of Government House Alausa, blew into a Nation wide movement, with worldwide following.

So Jide decided it was time to kiss ass, ingratiate himself with the protesters, he really did try though and with hippy clothes too.

It was when that failed that he began his panicky attempt to attend to the demands of the protesters. In a matter of hours, he flew to Abuja to see the President (who probably thought he was Bovi but story for another day), set up a Trust Fund, set a Judicial Panel of Inquiry.

Finally some action!

Just as Jide was about to sit down, hired thugs "came out of nowhere" and began to attack protesters.

I'm sure when Jide heard, he was like - "Mogbe! Awọn wo tun le leyi?"

Wahala was just everywhere.

Jide was barely able to get a handle on it all, via the 24 hour curfew, when again "out of nowhere", the sad events of 20 - 10 - 2020 occurred!

Men of the Nigerian Army stood, deliberately, without feeling, without thought and without any regrets nor apologies open fire and massacred their fellow citizens in cold blood.
I'm inclined to.....


“JIDE SORO SOKE!!!” by gafar https://link.medium.com/04TVEb1kVab

Sanwo-kposi sorosoke.