LETTER TO BOLA AHMED TINUBU: Portrait Of The Tiger Ambode
Rode (4)
Dear Chief Tinubu,
The back page 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 whey they met you in your about 80 years on earth
.Yes,80!
Those of us who are knowledgeable about you cant 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 de 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 Chigago State University and University of
Chiicago 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 palp 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.
Like a rapist, you can tell your victims to shout “O to pe”
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 judgement
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
2 extra years and so with we 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 too severe political links with you within six months .
…More to come click here
By Yinka Odumakin
Smyleworld Info-Tech
