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“Pansa o fura,

Pansa ja si’na;

Aja o fura,

Aja jin;

Onile ti ko ba fura,

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Ole ni yo ko!”

These were the last lines of a piece in my regular Monday column in The PUNCH (As It Is), many years back. The piece was written at the height of the contrived crisis in the once-solid pan-Yoruba social-political group, Afenifere.

In it, son of man had counselled the leadership of Afenifere to forgive one another and embrace peace within the group, so that undue polarisation will not destroy it, making it vulnerable to ‘Demo’ elements, working in concert with others outside our region, who do not believe in the ways of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo to take over the Yoruba space.

More than that, son of man also wrote that should Afenifere fail to heed this counsel, none of them will go to their graves in peace, as the Yoruba Nation would be drawn back by forces of retrogression pretending to be progressive elements.

Late Sir Olaniwun Ajayi consequently ‘summoned’ son of man to his Ishara Remo country home, wondering why a staunch supporter of the Afenifere old guards could write the way I did, instead of ‘attacking’ those seeking to bring the organisation down. He was not happy at all, when we met, especially about the reference one made to what brought about the ‘war’ with late Chief Olabisi Onabanjo and his family.

This was before Chief Bola Ige was killed and the group splintering into almost five weightless organizations under the control of politicians with deep pockets.

Another ‘dugbe dugbe’ is threatening to fall, again, on the progressive side of the Yoruba space with perfidious members of the Yoruba Nation being used as pawns to destroy one of their very best. And, blinded by unbriddled ambition and the same porous thinking that destroyed those of the past, they believe, naively, there is a political crown waiting for them.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo miraculously escaped programmed death twice. The  first time was in the Gwagwalada area of the Federal Capital Territory, when agents of darkness wanted him to board a ‘faulty’ helicopter, which security observers believed had been tampered with in the way of the one that took the lives of Gen. Azazi and Yakowa of Kaduna State. The vice president’s security aides insisted he would return to base by road.

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The one in Kogi State almost succeeded, but for Divine intervention. And, the forces of darkness being aided by some of our own did not stop. Only that loads are not in the public domain. A failure to achieve what they believed would be easy during the first term activated the current desperation to force the man to a political Golgotha today.

Not one of our leaders is currently putting on any thinking cap about how this will end without consuming them as well. But as son of man counselled the Afenifere leadership at the time, the current despicable move against Osinbajo will consume many among our own, especially those who are being deceived with offers.

Son of man is not a Prophet. One is neither a Pastor nor Babalawo. But what is out there is that, e maa ge ika je gbeyin ni ti e o ba jawo ninu apon ti ko yo ti e gbe ka’na!

© Wale Adedayo is the publisher of Uhuru Times

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