Ebun Adebusoye exposed her ignorance and hatred because Sowore always speaks his mind loudly and clearly...when issue of humanity and principled activism is involved. - Adeola Soetan

TEACHER , DON'T TEACH US NONSENSE. By : Adeola Soetan "Madam Tribal Bigot, I'm surprised you didn't express this your fake Yoruba nationalism love when some terrorist Fulani herdsmen were sacking your ancestors, taking grazing land forcefully without payment, killing and maiming your Yoruba kings, fathers, mothers youths and farmers. You kept quiet like your rogue leaders because of politics of appeasement and indulgence for power transfer from Seriki Integrity Buhari at the risk of the lives of your people you now claimed to love. Laughable! Duplicitous moralists. Selective Yoruba nationalism". I'M A Quick Response to a dangerous prowling ethnic bigot, Mrs. Ebunola Adebusoye. Deputy Women's Leader, Indigenous Lagos Teachers Association. Mrs Ebunola Adebusoye has just written as an uncultured, uncivilized, intolerant Yoruba person lacking sound Yoruba wisdom and intellect. Yoruba accommodate divergent opinions on issues and respect views because they don't subscribe to enslavement by anyone. She's really not a democrat, an illiterate to civilization and democratic rights of expression she wrongly called Sowore. Well, may be Sowore didn't win and can't win election according to her, because he's not a drug baron, a certificate forger, an identity thief with no identifiable root. May be Sowore is not a grand looter of a state and offered himself post - office looting for life pensions running into billions of naira to buy voters and their conscience, rig elections and unleash thugs on the people. May be that's why Sowore can't win and unconscientious people like Ebun can't and won't vote for Sowore but would prefer to vote, serve and be enslaved by desperate moral wrecks. Madam & her supporters should know that democracy allows freedoms of choice, opinions on all issues including naming and renaming streets and bus stops done with sincerity or with vendetta. Oh ye pretenders to "One Nigeria" the "Unity of Nigeria is not negotiable" at daytime but senseless ethnic bigots with violent mind at night and by actions should come out plain that you are spreading ethnic hatred that may lead to terrible ethnic war just because Igbo are exercising their independent right of choice on who to vote for. That's a universal right and no one should be punished for that. Perhaps if they had voted for your morally bankrupt leader (s) as they did in 1999, this renewed ethnic hostility won't occur. It's when totalitarian unprincipled leaders failed to perform that they cling to ethnic, religious straw & gangsterism to divert attention from concrete socio-economic problems to pedestrian sentiments. Ask yourselves, why is it that it's only when Janduku, unprincipled moral scoundrels without character & integrity are in power in Lagos and in Nigeria that they always resort to dangerous ethnic & religious hatred to divert attention. I have been in Lagos since 1976 - 1978, ethnic hostility was not noticeable during Jakande who popularly declared on his swearing in day that "Lagos is no man's land". Not because Jakande was saying Lagos has no root, no indigenous people, Awori & Benin early settlers. But because as a scrupulous man of high ideals like many other members of his political group led by Chief Obafemi Awowolo, with focus on collective development among tribes and foreigners, he understood that development knows no tribe or religious bias. Also because Jakande appreciated the traditional and historical status of Lagos as a colony, federal capital territory that has enjoyed full support of the indigenous people, all Nigerians across tribes & ethnic regions and by foreign nationals and multinational companies. That's what Abuja as a federal capital is enjoying now with contributions to its development by the federal government, by all citizens across ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and foreigners. Will Gbari indigenous people of Abuja now claim tomorrow that Abuja exclusively belongs to them? That will be very insincere of them because "Abuja is now a no man's land" literally speaking. When Jakande declared Lagos as a "no man's land" now being wrongly attributed to Igbo people, the best governor of Lagos only wanted a Lagos for all and he started building Lagos into a state of pride for all. It may interest you that despite these remarkable achievements in many legacy projects yet to be surpassed, Baba Jakande never engaged in primitive accumulation of Lagos wealth and property like your morally and character deficient corrupt leaders. Nothing like ethnic blackmail during Governor Otedola, or during any military administrator of Lagos. . It's only when janduku politicians many of whom are not even original Omo Eko (Lagosians) come to power that a resort to ethnic war comes to play. I'm a proud Egbaman and a Yoruba man to the core. I don't have any problem with Igbo, Hausa-Fulani, Ijaw etc. I don't nurse any inferiority or superiority complex. I have done biz and have romantic affairs with ladies from different tribes and I don't see any hatred in them to me and vice varsa. So, if you have wahala with Igbo, that's your personal headache. Don't drag Yoruba who are also suffering same economic hardship if not more than Igbo, Fulani and other tribes because a harsher and more roguish heartless member of a rogue anti-people capitalist class is unleashing IMF - World Bank neo-liberal economic policies of subsidy removal, devaluation, deregulation, commercialisation of all social infrastructure and privatization of our commonwealth into private hands and fronts. I'm educated and civilized not to be deceived by any member of the corrupt ruling capitalist class across ethnic regions using ethnic or religious bait for me to consolidate their totalitarian power. Only fools and crazy automated Abobakus will fall for that because the criminal ruling class is one when looting and patronage is the subject. Whatever good or bad Charly Boy did at Gbagada he did it as a gifted canterkerous man not on behalf of Igbo or because he's Igbo. Just like the good, the bad and the ugly things Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Abami Eda, Onile Orisa of Afrika did in Ikeja including battle with his landlord and owing the Benite family for years because of major disagreement till Fela died. He did all as Fela a weird philosopher king, great artiste, he didn't do those things because of Yoruba or because he was Yoruba. So why hanging all Igbo with your expressed hatred for Igbo because of Charly boy and few others? Madam Tribal Bigot, I'm surprised you didn't express this your fake Yoruba nationalism love when some terrorist Fulani herdsmen were sacking your ancestors, taking grazing land forcefully without payment, killing and maiming your Yoruba kings, fathers, mothers youths and farmers. You kept quiet like your rogue leaders because of politics of appeasement and indulgence for power transfer from Seriki Integrity Buhari at the risk of the lives of your people you now claimed to love. Laughable! Duplicitous moralists. Selective Yoruba nationalism. No street or bus stop was named after Fela but when going to his house, just tell any Olokada and n Ikeja that you are going to "Ile Fela" or Kalakuta Republic, you are there immediately. Why are you exposing your ignorance and hatred for Sowore and how Sahara Reporters is being funded because he always speaks his mind loudly and clearly because he has no friend, no foe when issue of humanity and principled activism is involved. He just led the protest by frustrated retired policemen & women. Where were you then? Where were you when Sowore led democratic struggles including June 12 and where were you when Sowore led campaign against killings and police /military brutality? Ask DSS who investigated Sowore and his Sahara Reporters, at least he was arrested, tortured, thoroughly investigated, illegally detained and persecuted for 3 years under Seriki Integrity Buhari regime and NOTHING implicating was found on him. If you are not satisfied, please commence your own investigation. Or goggle it to know how SH is funded. It's an open secret Sowore has revealed many times to the press. Madam Ebun, you claimed to be a Teacher with this your embarrassing "Alatika - Serekode Bolekaja" undignified mentality and spurious claims? That's interesting. Ebun means Gift in English language. Definitely, you must be a bad gift to the noble teaching profession. Madam Teacher, Don't Teach Us Nonsense. Adeola Soetan 08037207856

Police hunt for Comrade Wale Balogun for supporting opposition candidates in Lagos LG elections

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS : COMRADE WALE UNDER THREAT OF POLICE ARREST.* - Daisi Ogunniyi The July 12th Local Government elections in Lagos state is becoming worrisome with the threat to arrest a community leader in Yaba LCDA, Comrade Wale Balogun, leader of Mekunnu Koya. Comrade Balogun crime is said to be his support for the candidates of opposition political parties in Lagos state particularly, Lagos Mainland Federal Constituency. He had warned political thugs of the ruling party not to repeat the anti democratic practice in which a well known political thug Murtala Rahman aka Muri Cooordinator and his gang snatched ballot boxes at Saint Dominic, Sabo, during the 2023 general elections. Evidence of this was on tape He was also said to have appeal for a Non-violence process of One Man, One Vote. In spite of this, eligible voters in Adekunle - WARD A, Abule Ọja - WARD D, Abule Ijesha - WARD i, Iwaya - WARD - F and G, and Makoko - B, all in Yaba LCDA are being threatened not vote for opposition parties or dare the consequences. Security reports shows that a tactical team directly from the Lagos State Commissioner of Police office have linked up with the SCID Panti Yaba, to effect Comrade Wale Balogun's arrest. However, the fearless pro-democracy activist is in the neighborhood and remains undaunted. In a related development, the Councillorship candidate of PDP, Babatunde Dosunmu is said to be under threat of attack by APC thugs or being arrested on trumphed up charges.

The "rat race” for political power in Nigeria is borne out of selfishness, greed for power, opportunism, sycophancy, kleptocracy, corruption and despotism

2027 Election: A Rat Race, Chess Game In Nigeria’s Distraught Polity Opinion & Interviews By David ADENEKAN On Jul 9, 2025 The two phrases; ‘a rat race’ and ‘a chess game’ are intertwined and entangled in the same end game, the prowess to capture political power or position. In a very simple narrative; “a rat race” is a way of life in which people are caught up in a fiercely competitive struggle for wealth or power. Similarly, the goal of a chess game is to capture the opponent’s King by placing it in “checkmate.” When one player’s King is in check (under attack) and there is no legal way for it to escape on the next move, that’s checkmate. Emphatically, it is called checkmate and signifies the end of the game; a new power bloc has emerged. Prejudice apart and without mincing words, the phenomenon of politics of “a rat race” in the Nigeria polity, is borne out of selfishness, greed for power, opportunism, sycophancy, kleptocracy, corruption and despotism (naked power). Truth be told, this is a compendium of what we are witnessing in today’s Nigeria ahead of the 2027 general election. Historically, our experience of a politics of “a rat race” since our independence on October 1, 1960 is limitless in deadlocks that have forestalled a trajectory for a true nation building. The military incursion into our democracy led by General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) in 1983 to almost the end of twentieth century in 1999 continues to plunge the country into a myriad of socio-political economic problems of “a rat race politics” that seems not to have a dead-end. The reality of this rat race’s anomaly is that, a country whose foundation is not built on fairness, equity and justice, cannot stand the test of time. The issue of north/south dichotomy, vis-a-vis; the northern hegemony will continue to underscore the bane of our so-called unity in diversity. Understandably, today in Nigeria, power has changed hands and to the political elites in the north. It is no longer Northern hegemony. To them, it is unsavory southern hegemony and the new political slogan of some elites in the north may be that, power must change hands by fire by force, back to the north. It is noteworthy to say that, it is only two years of the miserable economic policies of a southern President; Bola Ahmed Tinubu and some elites in the north seem ready to burn down the roof of the house to return a northerner back to the centre of power in Aso Rock Villa.

YOREM appoints Chief Bambi Abiodun Abidemi to champion Yoruba self determination struggle in Oyo state

YOREM APPOINTED ABIODUN AS OYO STATE COORDINATOR, ADVISES GOVERNMENT TO ADOPT CONVENTIONAL AND UNCONVENTIONAL METHODS IN TACKLING INSECURITY The Yoruba Revolutionary Movement (YOREM) has chosen Chief Bambi Abiodun Abidemi as the Oyo State Coordinator of the group. He was unanimously appointed by the critical stakeholders of the movement across the 33 local government areas of the state. This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by Iseyin Local Government Coordinator of YOREM, Mr. Hammed Jagun, stating that the appointment takes immediate effect. “This is to inform the public that the State Executive Council had approved the selection of Chief Bambi Abiodun Abidemi as the new Coordinator of the Oyo State chapter of the Yoruba Revolutionary Movement (YOREM). The choice of Chief Abiodun came as a result of YOREM's leadership's desire to sustain the ideals of promoting the core values of the movement”. While he was also expected to be committed to the goals and objectives of the group for self determination and social emancipation, and the struggle for regional autonomy within a reconstituted genuine Federal structure or outside the pseudo federal union. In his acceptance speech to repositioned YOREM in Oyo State, Bambi Abidemi thanked the leadership of the Movement, he pledged to protect the interest of the movement making it more vibrant than the way it was He seized the opportunity to advise the Nigerian government at all levels to explore conventional and unconentional approach to address rising cases of insecurity across the country. "The Yoruba people have their unconventional ways of tackling insecurity which worked for them and can still work if properly annexed. Within the notion of punishment in the Yoruba culture, the physical and non-physical aspects of human existence are reconciled to arrive at a justifiable punitive action". He stressed.

APC naive attacks and verbal potshots against Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola failed to erase his towering legacy - Adio Abiodun

Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola; A Political Titan Whose Relevance Transcends Party Lines ..... by Adio Abiodun In the ever-evolving theatre of Nigerian politics, it is rare to find a figure whose presence, long after leaving office, continues to shape discourse, influence outcomes, and unsettle opponents. Such is the story of Engr. Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, popularly called Ogbeni, whose recent appointment as the National Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Nigeria’s newly rising opposition platform, has again jolted political structures, particularly within his former party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). For many, Aregbesola’s reemergence in a new partisan home should have been a moment for sober reflection on his enduring relevance, capacity, and value. Instead, what we have witnessed is an uncoordinated, if not laughable, barrage of attacks and verbal potshots from a few politically naive individuals, most of whom are long-standing rivals within the Osun APC, individuals who, despite their years of scheming, have failed to erase Ogbeni’s towering legacy in the state and beyond. To understand the roots of this resentment, one must journey back to the formative years of Aregbesola’s political life. From his youthful days as an activist and organiser during the pro-democracy struggles of the 1990s, Ogbeni has always been driven by ideological clarity and revolutionary commitment to the people. He was never the kind of politician who sought office for its trappings; rather, he wielded power as a tool for societal transformation. His association with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos became the defining point of his emergence as a political strategist of immense depth. As Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure in Lagos State from 1999 to 2007, Aregbesola helped entrench a new governance model that many states later tried to emulate. His strategic input was critical to the survival of opposition politics in Lagos and other parts of the Southwest, especially during the years when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) threatened to overrun the region. But it was his electoral triumph in Osun State in 2010, following a titanic legal battle, that cemented his status as a political lion. For eight years, Aregbesola redefined governance in Osun, focusing on infrastructure, education, social protection, and youth development. His policies were bold, at times controversial, but undeniably impactful. Even after he left office in 2018, his presence has continued to loom large, which understandably unsettles some within the Osun APC establishment, who have since struggled to fill the vacuum he left behind. Their discomfort with Aregbesola’s sustained popularity is the real reason for the recent attacks on his person. They fear what his mobilization strength could mean in the lead-up to 2027, particularly now that he is realigning through the ADC, a platform increasingly being seen as the nucleus of a credible third force in Nigerian politics. His critics, mostly lacking in historical perspective and real grassroots engagement, have failed to acknowledge the fact that Aregbesola’s contributions to the APC’s evolution were not just significant, they were foundational. In Lagos, he helped build the structures that won elections even in the face of federal hostility. In Osun, he delivered two electoral cycles and helped mobilize the Southwest for the APC in the 2015 and 2019 general elections. Across Nigeria, his role as a political tactician was always in demand. That the APC has now become a party in desperate need of ideological reawakening, internal cohesion, and mass trust, is in part due to the marginalization of men like Aregbesola, men who built, bled, and sacrificed for the party when it was unpopular to do so. His new role in the ADC, far from being an act of political betrayal, is a reflection of the maturity of Nigeria’s democracy. It signals the possibility of alternative platforms gaining traction, especially when steered by individuals with credibility and experience. If anything, Aregbesola’s involvement in the ADC is bound to reshape alignments, particularly among disenchanted progressives within the APC who now seek a home more reflective of their ideals. As Nigeria inches towards another defining electoral cycle in 2027, it is clear that Ogbeni remains a central factor in any serious political calculation. His reach, particularly among the youth and the working class, remains formidable. His political structure, developed over decades of activism, governance, and strategic engagement, is not one to be dismissed by opportunistic upstarts. To dismiss Aregbesola is to misunderstand Nigerian politics. To try and undermine his legacy is to deny reality. For now, and for the foreseeable future, Ogbeni remains not just a man of history, but a man of destiny. And that, perhaps, is what threatens his rivals the most. Comrade Adio Abiodun sent in this piece from Abule Egba in Lagos State.

DSS: Free Andrew Emelieze the champion of Federal Workers struggle welfare now. Femi Aborisade

*Femi Aborisade Demands Release of Comrade Andrew Emelieze, Co-ordinator of Federal Workers Forum* My client, Comrade Andrew Emelieze who has been championing the struggle for the welfare of workers employed by the Federal Government has been detained again today 3/7/25 by the State Security Service (SSS) in Ibadan. It should be recalled that the Comrade was detained on 30/6/25 and released the following day on 1/7/25. Today, he was invited by the same DSS and detained for no stated reason. According to the report of Mr. Yusuff Akinola, the lawyer from Abope Chambers who went to secure his bail on 1/7/25 and who also accompanied him today to the SSS office, no specific allegation of any offence was made against Comrade Andrew Emelieze. Indeed, according to Andrew Emelieze, his interrogation on 30/6/25 through 1/7/25 revolved round only facts relating to the formation of the Federal Workers Forum. Today, 3/7/25, after he honoured the invitation of the SSS, he was asked to wait for a Senior Officer who never showed up to interrogate him. I call on the SSS to release my client, Comrade Andrew Emelieze. If he has committed any offence known to law, he should be charged to court. Below are the verbatim reports of Yusuff Akinola Esq on 1/7/25 and 3/7/25, which show nothing but sheer harassment of a law-abiding citizen in person of Comrade Andrew Emelieze. *REPORT OF VISIT TO THE OFFICE OF THE STATE SECURITY SERVICE (SSS)OYO STATE COMMAND,ON THE ARREST, DETENTION AND RELEASE ON BAIL OF COMRADE ANDREW EMELIEZE FROM 30TH June through 1ST JULY 2025*. Around 11 a.m of 1/7/2021, I got to the premises of the Oyo State Command of the SSS located at Aleshinloye, Ibadan, Oyo State. I was initially prevented from entering the premises by the officers at the entrance gate on the ground that no lawyer can see anyone in their custody until the Investigation Officer has directly and formally invited the counsel. Later, when I stated we might make a public statement that our client had been denied access to a lawyer of his choice, I was eventually allowed to enter their main building at about 11:15 a.m. The officers at the counter directed me to wait at the visitors' room on the ground floor, that the Investigation Officer would come out to invite me to the Interrogation Room. After 40 minutes, the same officer informed me that they were attending to Comrade Andrew Emelieze and that I would be allowed to see him at a later time. Around 2 p.m, an officer who they all addressed as 'DLS' invited me to his OFFICE where I identified him to be their lawyer. The SSS lawyer ordered the Investigation Officer to bring Comrade Andrew to his office. Upon the production of Comrade Andrew in their lawyer's office, I asked for the reason for his arrest and detention. Neither the lawyer nor the Investigation Officer could state the particular reason for the arrest and detention. Rather, the lawyer showed me the statement written by Comrade Andrew and he asked Comrade Andrew if he was tortured and whether the statement was made voluntarily. Comrade Andrew responded that he was never tortured and his statement was made voluntarily. Comrade Andrew Emelieze's statement was his responses to the questions put to him about the historical facts on the formation of the Federal Workers Forum led by the Comrade which had planned a protest in Abuja for 1/7/25. Thereafter, we were led to the 'ADS' office where I orally applied for Comrade Andrew's bail. I was informed that it was not their practice to take oral application for bail. They requested that the bail should be applied with our office letterhead within 1 hour because their officers were preparing to head out of their premises. By 2:56 pm, I submitted, at the counter, the handwritten application for bail with Abope Chambers' letterhead. We were given a bail bond to fill around 3 pm but we had to wait till 6pm before Comrade Andrew could be released, because none of the officers present could tell us the offence Comrade Andrew had allegedly committed. Meanwhile, we needed to state the alleged offence on the bail bond. Around 6 p.m., the Investigation Officer came back and informed us that the alleged offences were *'Incitement and Public Disturbance'* . Comrade Andrew was finally released around 6 p. m. and we left their premises by 6:15 p.m. Yusuff Akinola, Esq. *REPORT OF VISIT TO THE SSS OFFICE TODAY 3/7/25 AND DETENTION OF COMRADE ANDREW EMELIEZE* Sequel to the invitation of Comrade Andrew Emelieze by the SSS, on the ground that there was a document we were yet to sign to perfect his earlier bail granted on 1/7/2025, Comrade Andrew and I went to the SSS Command this evening and entered their premises around 5:17 p.m. Upon entering their main building, we were informed by one of the officers that an unidentified senior officer wanted to ask him a few questions. Hence, Comrade Andrew was directed to wait at the Waiting Room. The officer then advised that I could leave so that they wouldn't waste my time. I informed him that we were invited only to come and "perfect the bail" earlier granted and I informed him that I wouldn't leave my client behind . He therefore stated that I could stay with Comrade Andrew at the Waiting Room till the time the said senior officer would return back to office. After 40 minutes, I informed the officer at the counter that we would like to leave as it and come back tomorrow since Comrade Andrew was already on bail and he needed to take his medication. The officer said I might leave but Comrade Andrew had to wait for the senior officer who was not available. I reminded the officer again that Comrade Andrew was on bail and there was no reason to detain him again since he had not jumped bail and I further asked if he had been detained again. The officer didn't respond to my question. After 2 hours of waiting, around the 7:18 p.m., I had to leave the SSS Command when it became obvious that their intention was to keep Comrade Andrew in their custody. Upon reaching home around 9 p.m. because of the heavy rain fall and traffic , I saw two missed calls on my phone from the officer that invited us. I called him back and he informed me that the senior officer had returned but they found out I had left. I asked if they had released Comrade Andrew, he said I should come back to their office this night for the release of Comrade Andrew. I asked if he meant I had to apply for his bail again and the officer said yes. I informed him I would return to their office tomorrow, 4/7/25. Yusuff Akinola, Esq.

Lamido was wrong on Afenifere's involvements in the June 12 struggle. Afenifere supported Abiola and was active in the formation of SDP via PSP which fused with Shehu Musa Yar'Adua's PDM. Before June 12 - Babalola

*Sule Lamido; The Soldier of Fortune's Horse.* By Olusegun R. Babalola My attention has been brought recently to the comments made by the former Jigawa State Governor, on Arise Television (17, June 2025) and the Guardian newspaper (25, June 2025), where he unfairly de-marketed audaciously made false comments on Afenifere, one of the most powerful welfarist groups in Africa and one of the greatest voices against bad governance in the world. On President Bola Tinubu, he made two things clear, which Afenifere have consistently emphasized, based on the principle of social democracy and welfarism, since Tinubu's presidency. According to him, Tinubu cashed in on the June 12 pro-democracy movement during the annulment crisis, acted more as a “soldier of fortune” than a genuine advocate for the people’s mandate." Secondly, he lamented that Nigeria is currently plagued by economic hardship, insecurity, and declining public morale, and he also warned that politics has taken precedence over governance halfway into Tinubu’s term. Particularly on Afenifere, Lamido surprisingly stated that "Afenifere believed that for any Yoruba to rise to the national level, it must be through them. I think that is also Tinubu’s crime—for making it to the presidency outside Afenifere.” Secondly, he noted that Afenifere “hopped into the arena after June 12 to use the victory, instead of the victor, to ride on the emotions of the Yorubas and regain political relevance after their siddon-look posture.” Lamido is looking at the surface as all sophists do, and not on both the surface and below the surface, as morally committed thinkers (political scientists and philosophers) do. Firstly, Afenifere is guided by the principle of justice, fairness, social democracy and welfarism. It's not that "Afenifere believed that for any Yoruba to rise to the national level, it must be through them" but that Afenifere believes that the principle of governance everywhere should be based on justice, fairness, social democracy and welfarism, and life abundant for all. This has been the unrivaled principle since Action Group days. This has always been Afenifere's measure of all politicians. If Tinubu switches from his neo-liberal policies to welfarist policies, and also adopts Afenifere's ideas of economic and political restructuring, Afenifere would commend him. It's no personal but a matter of principled ideology, which may be hard for Lamido to understand. Secondly, Afenifere did not join and lead the pro-democracy movement "to ride on the emotions of the Yorubas and regain political relevance after their siddon-look posture," but again based on the same principle of justice, fairness, social democracy and welfarism to seek for fairness and justice. If it was someone else from another region that was treated unfairly, Afenifere would have stood up for him. Thirdly, Lamido was wrong on Afenifere's involvements in the June 12 struggle. Afenifere supported Abiola and was active in the formation of SDP via PSP which fused with Shehu Musa Yar'Adua's PDM. Before June 12, both Afenifere and Abiola made it known to all that Abiola made up with Obafemi Awolowo (Afenifere leader) before the latter died. This was the case even though Afenifere was highly sceptical of the manipulations of Ibrahim Babangida's transition program and was more interested in the "National Question." Olusegun Obasanjo too, was sceptical about it and he wrote one his most advanced political treatises called _Constitution for National Integration and Development_ on the same transition program. It wasn't only Afenifere that was sceptical. It was also such scepticism that led to Bola Ige's "siddon look" cliche. And it was also the concern for the "National Question" that made Afenifere settle for Abiola and not Bashir Othman Tofa of the NRC. And hasn't the subsequent events of that transition program justified Afenifere's scepticism? Though Lamido claimed that he is not playing regional politics; that he is concerned with the "truth" especially for younger generation, for what he called "national rebirth;" and that his comments are not part of a North-West conspiracy against the current administration; Lamido is invariably assisting the same “soldier of fortune” to succeed whilst destroying genuine basis for an enduring trans-regional opposition. As such, he is guilty of the same critique that he placed on President Tinubu - that "politics has taken precedence over governance." Interestingly, Lamido has done this before. He was one of the many who abandoned the June 12 struggle and signed up with Sani Abacha's grip to power towards silencing oppositional groups. Abacha made him the Chairman of Nigeria Agricultural and Cooperative Bank in 1994, and after being inducted to Abacha's patronage system (apologies to Prof. Richard Joseph), he thereafter told the whole world that he didn't join politics to serve Abiola. That is the truth necessary for our national rebirth. Who is more honorable, the unrepentant prebendalist who dumped a cheated winner he once supported or a cautious skeptic who fought for justice and fairness? Lamido also noted that "It’s left for Nigerians to evaluate what is happening under President Tinubu’s watch to determine his democratic credentials." In my view, my evaluation is that Tinubu's administration has not only perfected the craft of dividing oppositional forces into factions as he did to Labour Party and other vital oppositional organizations for perpetual rule, but has also perfected dividing the oppositional minds, as seen in Lamido's comments. And this is really very disconcerting and telling. There would be no accountability from Tinubu's administration nor would the opposition be able to wrestle power from him or even win him, as long as oppositional minds and organizations are divided. National rebirth is impossible with divided minds and organizations, and without a clear sense of reasoned principles to end these artificial divisions. Invariably, if and only if Lamido is truly concerned about "national rebirth," one could say he is shooting himself in the feet. Sad. He has become, once again, the horse for the “soldier of fortune.” Olusegun Babalola is a member of Afenifere and was the Osun State Coordinator for LP Presidential Campaign Council. He is General Secretary of LP in Osun State has a blog - obalufonics.com