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Dear Chief Tinubu,
The backpage of your The Nation of
Tuesday 12 March where one of your Rottweilers under the FORGED name “Segun
Ibirogba” wrote “Odumakin’s anxiety over vanishing feeding-bottles” has
un-paused the button on this serial.
I have always wondered why these
intellectual almajiris around you always attack me under fake names. It is
either they are afraid of me or they don’t believe in you to risk their names
doing the dirty job for you .Well, we know many of them hold worst views about
you than us but for the free money they have been accustomed to from a Robbin
Hood.
The piece referenced was a rehash of
same old silly lies and freshly minted ones.In keeping faith with my resolve that
for every dart of lie you guys throw in my direction ,I will return 10 bombs of
truth I make this response.And for every line I write,I can say like Fela
Anikulapo-Kuti “Na true I wan talk again o; if I dey lie o, make Edumare punish
me o”.
Since you guys made a failed attempt
to impugn my integrity, I have chosen to use this edition to place your life
side-by-side mine on the scale of integrity so we can know if your hen can
point at the boil in a hawk’s eye. I intend to show that were it not that
Nigeria has become Ceaser’s palace where the leper holds the veil, nobody in
your circle should move near that subject.
I am Yinka Odumakin and nobody can
say he had known me under any identity in my life. I have led a straight life
unlike you that people know under different identities depending on where they
met you in your about 80 years on earth. Yes,80!
Those of us who are knowledgeable
about you can’t buy your 66 claim for so many reasons .The current governor of
Osun is the son of your immediate senior sister from Iragbiji and he is 63
while you are claiming 66. Your first wife died in Lagos recently unannounced
at 74 .
When the son he had for you died
many months earlier his age had to be doctored to fit into the lie that you
live. And there is a photograph of yours at the palace of Soun Ogbomoso in 1974
when the current monarch was installed with a bottle of beer and packet of
cigarette in your front. You mean you were 20 when you were drinking and
smoking in a palace ?
There is no school I have attended
in my life that my classmates would not come out in droves to say “yeah, we
were there together!”. From St Augustine Primary School, Ondo to CAC Grammar
School, Edunabon and Oduduwa College Ile -Ife down to Obafemi Awolowo University,
Ile -Ife and University of Ghana.
At your end St John Primary School
Aroloya you claimed may be created by your new governor in Lagos. The old boys
of Government College Ibadan were planning a reception for you when someone
asked which set you belonged to. There has been no answer to that till date and
the reception was cancelled. The tales by moonlight on Chicago State University
and University of Chicago are all over the place.
My parents are alive in Osun and by
God’s grace I will give them a befitting burial. I will not have to send
emissaries to bury them since I have not abandoned “moomi” (that’s how we Oyo
people in Osun call mummy) to be calling another woman “maami” in Lagos to fit
a life of lie and greed. No Mama HID Awolowo would have told me that she knew
all the children of “maami ” and that I was not one of them.
My parents are not rich but I am
proud of them because it is from their black pot that my white pap has come
out. I say proudly among my University mates today that they could not afford
more than N60 per month for me throughout my University days .The story of
grass to grace is a proud thing among the Yoruba. MKO Abiola was proud of the
story that he ate egg for the first time in his life in the home of Simbiat
Abiola’s parents.
With the modest means of my parents,
they instilled so much values in me that there is no crime attached to my name
in all my years on earth. Forging traveling passports had never appealed to me.
Neither has my name been linked to a narcotic ring leading to inquiry and
forfeiture of assets. All my life, my hands have provided for me. And they have
provided for you too.
I recall when you returned from
exile in 1998 and running for governor. You were not “Ezeego” then. You had
only the Sunday Adigun house and all the four cars you used then belonged to Mr
Ganiyu Solomon. There were a lot of printings being done for you by your
friends at The News. I saw the price you were being offered and I told you my
press could do it at 40%. I delivered and saved you 60%. I recall Mr Babafemi
Ojodu complained openly that they could not do the price I offered you !
That should tell you and your attack dogs that I have always separated the cause I believe in from what I would eat unlike you who always mix the two. You pose as a June 12 hero today but Kola Abiola is alive to tell the story of what happened to MKO’s money as Bashorun is no longer alive. In 20 years, there is hardly any boundary between Lagos treasury and your private pockets. Your “O to ge” moment is coming some day and all the dirty deals will be out.
That
should tell you and your attack dogs that I have always separated the cause I
believe in from what I would eat unlike you who always mix the two. You pose as
a June 12 hero today but Kola Abiola is alive to tell the story of what
happened to MKO’s money as Bashorun is no longer alive. In 20 years, there is
hardly any boundary between Lagos treasury and your private pockets. Your “O to
ge” moment is coming some day and all the dirty deals will be out.
Like a rapist, you can tell your
victims to shout “O to ge” for as long as stolen funds and drug money rule
Lagos politics.
I have noticed that because you and
your followers have no abiding principle and you are driven by only lust for
money, you assume it is so for everybody. Your being glued to the lowest of all
spirits (money) makes it difficult for you to make the right judgment about
people thinking they are all about money. Was it that you didn’t have money
when I told you in December 2006 that it was over between us politically? Have
I ever looked in your direction ever? There are men who may not be able to give
N10,000 to a cause but if they say they want to see me at 8AM I would be there
at 7. Can you summon me with all your bullion vans?
I recall how you said to me in 2006
about Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi and I quote you “Adiye ni Tokunbo, yin agbado
fun a pada” (Tokunbo is a fowl, throw corns and it is U-turn). Has he not
turned his back at you today? You don’t have “corns ” again? This was the man
who was your fall guy when you made all the forgeries in 1999. He was among the
team that went to bury your biological mother in Iragbiji when you could not
show your face, has his exit not shown you there are men who place value on
principle than money?
I have lived my political life on
the basis of the fact that an adversary today can be an ally tomorrow and vice
versa. I am not beholden to any person outside the core beliefs we share. One
of the men I had an open disagreement with was President Obasanjo and when we
reconciled it was an open thing. That differentiates me from you who walk both
sides of the streets simultaneously. You were with NADECO and also in bed with
Abacha through whom you forged friendship with the Chagourys who are your
business partners till date.
The political buffoons around you
would hold you out as an anti-third term person today but you know what
happened between us on May 2, 2006. We had a meeting at Airport Hotel in Lagos
where you were dictating the communique against third term unknown to
participants you were at a meeting till wee hours of that morning to work third
term in another way.
I was reading the communique to the
press when you called me. I gave the phone to the late Rev Tunji Adebiyi but
you told him you wanted to speak with me. We didn’t get to talk till late in
the night. I had with me in the car as you spoke with me from VGC to Ikeja then
President of Egbe Omo Yoruba in North America, Mr Odusanya. Let me quote you
verbatim :
“I hope you have not released that
communique. We need to manage this third term carefully. Obasanjo is a blind
cat. If he causes problem now and they kill one Yoruba graduate in Kano and we
kill 200 people selling onions in mile 12 it is not equal. I am therefore
proposing that we have a win-win situation. Instead of outright third term we
can have the confab recommendation of one six-year tenure starting with the
incumbent having two extra years and so with us the governors. We can use the
two years to empower people like you and handover to one of you. I have asked
General Alani Akinrinade to come and I am going to meet Prof Soyinka to discuss
it. I want you to think about it”
I told you as a matter of fact that
the proposition was unreasonable and there was nothing for me to think about as
I would prefer outright third term where we would have elections to automatic
two years extension. But my eyes were opened to how unreliable you are that
night. Here was a man dictating communique against third term in the morning
having this conversation with me at night.
I made up my mind on you that night.
The conversation I had with you minutes after Funso Williams was killed and the
way you handled your succession made me to severe political links with you
within six months .
…More to come.
By Yinka Odumakin.
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