So, Governors also cry

Believe me, I slept deeper over the weekend, not just because my name is yet to feature on

the ever-expanding Dasukigate list, but I discovered that - governors also cry. The unwashed masses would think that the razzmatazz of sirens and the clenched firsts of rankadade have removed the tear-gland of our governors. When borrowing the roads in Naija’s bustling state capitals, we have all learnt to pay attention to sirens because getting to one’s destination in one piece depends on that instinct. With the military hangover of having uniformed men standing behind elected officials the notion of equality for all road users is a mirage for anyone whose back is not tailor made for koboko lashes. Those who value their Tokunbo cars do not dare convoys, because to do so is to risk a black eye and a huge bill from the auto body shop. Ask Chris Anyanwu who, as chairman of sinnate committee on the navy acquired some ratings as ADC and dared Rochas Okorocha’s convoy.
Now, I don’t know if Nasir el-Rufai uses the siren especially on the ever-busy Ahmadu Bello Way, with Sinnator Afro-puff always on his tail but I would have said, given the way he is running Kaduna that a second term is given but the man does not share my confidence; and in this business, who feels it knows it. Last week, he told KASU’s new governing council that his re-election is not guaranteed. Now El-Rufai is not as huge as Goliath but his slingshots pack as deadly a punch as the Biblical David. So at no risk of sending him an Iyorchia Ayu consultancy voucher, he should do his best and let the people of Kaduna decide his fate come 2019.
It so happens that since Sam Mbakwe pioneered the art of political tear shedding, Naija governors have learnt not to cry in public or else Kassim Shettima would have drowned in his own tears with the effects of Boko Haram on Borno. Digbolugi Fayose’s circus is always a bad joke that lightens up a bad day. Over the weekend, Fayose drove to the famous Ojuelegba roundabout to predict that from the look of things, he is unsure of completing his elective term. It’s as a result of the inquiry into how Musiliu Obanikoro’s troops may have helped his mandate distributing the now infamous stomach infrastructure and keeping the opposition under house arrest. At the elections, Fayose’s Ifa may have told him that whatever he did was what Yorubas call asegbe or inscrutable, but with Sai Baba alive and well, he has found out that it is all asheti or hidden for a while. His Ifa never imagined a day of reckoning rather; it predicted that Sai Baba would kick the bucket before or shortly after May 29. Its seven years since and even Fayose would have been tired of flying halfway to the places Sai Baba has been since being sworn in yet having the time to checking the half-buried skeletons that prevented us from getting the promised fresh air.
For a politrician who can roast corn by the roadside, cut ponmo in the market and act as vehicle inspection officer, Fayose need not fear - there is a job outside Government House. But for a man whose baptismal name is Peter it is not too late to return to the God of the Hebrew now that his Ifa has failed him woefully. Sai Baba has enough fishes to fry at the national level and is he very unlikely to ask the EFCC to lock up his lawmakers in one room, show them their secret files until he is impeached. That era died with the Party of Desperate People.
Although I am not his pastor, Fayose should confidently return to Ado-Ekiti read Genesis 4:6 & 7 where God charged Cain inter alia: “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?  If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” He must not to dig deeper into the malfeasant quagmire by hiring PDP’s bling-bling God-of-men pastors whose consultancy fees for President Jones run into billions for prayers that seals people’s fate in the court of the devil.
His party has called for the inquisition to go farther than 2015 and this is where Fayose need to fear. If Sai Baba decides to honour their call and dig deeper into the past, Fayose may be caught in the net of his past as the inquest dusts the N1.3 billion poultry scam of his first tenure. As my daughter always says - there’s no pillow as soft as a clear conscience, it does not seem like Fayose has a clear conscience. While he fights his own shadows, the rest of humanity with nothing to fear but armed robbers would continue to sleep peacefully in their huts and kraal.

 Dailytrust