Yorubas say rikisi pawon po won di ore, ohun to pawon po a tu won ka. That is for all the attackers of Dapo Oke in general.
The issue at hand. Now the relevant parts of our world is fully aware why some principalities are attacking the name Dapo Oke with blatant lies. It is because Dapo Oke has moved on from their camp of regular political power blackout to the one promising consistent illumination that will light up the glory of Ogun West and place it where it really belongs amongst senatorial districts of the nation Nigeria. He moved to Distinguished Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola aka Yayi's side that promises victory which Dapo Oke has been sacrificing in so many way for all his life. That was his sin but how come that amounted to sin in a free world? So bad that those that you would want to believe are literate and educated are the one crucifying Dapo for exercising his human right? God bless all those that passed through school and allowed school to pass through them.
PROOFS OF DAPO OKE'S CONSISTENCY
In 2011, Dapo Oke deployed all he had to support Chief Adetunji Olurin till he got the PDP's flag for that year's election. His support was on till the poll. He did not back out. It should be noted that Chief Olurin was in PDP. Chief Olurin did not win that election which means for Yewa Awori, the struggle continues and that means Dapo will have to support somebody again.
Next time was 2015. Dapo Oke worked again in helping his fatherland break free from marginalization and deprivation. Long before 2015 there was an agreement amongst Dapo Oke contemporaries that whichever party fielded an Ogun West person will be the one to work and vote for. Towards 2015 he formed a group Ogun West Rebirth and that group worked on all worthy political parties in Ogun to look towards Ogun West for their guber candidates. In the end PDP did and GNI got the guber ticket. Dapo Oke stuck with PDP just like in 2011 and supported GNI with all he had.
Points to note here:
In 2011 Dapo Oke supported PDP
In 2015 Dapo Oke supported PDP.
In between the two election Years which was 4 solid years Dapo Oke did not move to any other party.
Can same be said of the likes of Isiaq Akinlade and Gboyega Isiaka? Same cannot be said of them because Gboyega moved from PDP to PPN from PPN to PDP and again to Labour Party and from Labour party to PDP. So much and so long a movement that one almost lost count. Akinlade on his own moved from PDP to ACN and to APC and back to PDP. Now it is even hard to place him in any party. While the two were junketing politically, breaking cross carpeting and decamping records, Dapo Oke was consistent!
DAPO OKE CANDIDATES.
He supported Chief Olurin in 2011, the Chief not only won his party ticket but came second in the election which was not a bad result.
He went for GNI in 2015 and GNI narrowly lost to Senator Amosun.
This means that Dapo Oke always supported the very best of any election year. Nobody can doubt the fact that Chief Olurin was the very best not only from Ogun west but among all those that contested in 2011 including the winner. That he was a commander of an international force Ecomog would have qualified him to contest American presidency if he were an American. He was a former two times governor of Oyo and Ekiti and the only Ogun West man to have become governor though not of Ogun state. That was whom Dapo supported because to Dapo, it was not about just politics but about development of Ogun West. It is about winning and nothing else so only the best is good enough, the very best of any election year.
In 2015 there is no doubt that GNI was the best that Ogun west could present. Even generally he was almost the best of them all aside the fact that Senator Amosun beat him because he had been governor for a term. Dapo Oke deployed all he had to support GNI, facts about his effort and sacrifices are in public domain some of which warped minds are twisting to fight the consistent, reliable, influential, truthful committed Ogun West person of all time among his contemporaries, Chief Dapo Oke.
In a nutshell, Dapo Oke will always support the best for the job of winning the elusive Okemosan seat of power. Sorry to whoever is not good enough at any particular Ogun election year because Dapo has eyes for only one thing and that is winning and so only the one with all it takes to win will he support.
THE CASE OF BIYI OTEGBEYE.
A Dapo Oke that I have known and studied over the years has only one main target in getting involved in politics and it is that Ogun West must be governor because it is the only way for the district to move up real fast and good. He has his eyes on that and good for him and Barrister Biyi, Barrister Biyi was in PDP as a senate aspirant and the same party was promising for Ogun West as far as the guber ticket was concerned. He was supporting Barrister Biyi and working for the party to look the way of the west for its guber ticket but unfortunately, Barrister Biyi's faction lost out and he was not given the ticket to senate. GNI was good to get the guber ticket. That would not have been problematic but it was when Barrister Biyi Otegbeye chose to leave PDP for SDP. He left and Dapo stayed to work for the governorship opportunity that PDP offered. Clearly Dapo has showed that rain or shine he will stick to the side of the people of Ogun West. Barrister Biyi is one that has good relationship with Dapo Oke long before politics but at that point the people came first just like it has always been.
Now how can people that have been decamping, cross carpeting jumping about be the one to crucify Dapo Oke for moving across party line for the very first time ever? It is a ridiculous stunt of lazy minds. This one movement is even perfectly in line and consistent with Dapo Oke's goal and trend of supporting the best man for the job. Only onirikisis, afenifebis, clogs in the wheel of Ogun West progress and lazy minds will disagree with the fact that Yayi is the best for the job at this time. He is a winner that has not lost election and by the power that made daylight possible he will not lose the next one.
That Dapo Oke moved in search of the messiah of Ogun West politically speaking is the pain in the ass of lazy minds that sat at comfort zones instead of working to get Ogun West out of political abyss. They have no structure and are not building any but chose to depend on other people's efforts and structure to succeed but unfortunately those ones are traders that careless about their ambition that their attack on Dapo has revealed to be personal and not of collective good.
Yayi has come and he he is building his structure that will withstand the 2019 pressure. It is a structure on which he can even count his chicken before hatching because it is his and he is in control of it.
When Dapo Oke wrote the story of Yayi's Yewa origin, the normal thing one expected from those not comfortable with having a quality aspirant like Yayi around is for them to write a rejoinder detailing where they want to point out as the origin of Yayi since that of Dapo Oke is not acceptable to them. Till now they have not done that. Instead they are cooking lies about a man of impeccable character, a worthy defender of Yewa Awori cause, Dapo Oke.
Breaking news!!! We now know thanks to leaks from their camps that it is not even the story that is their headache. What is their headache is the person that told the story, Dapo Oke. He is their problem because he is 100% believable. He is a man of noble character and in no Yewa, Awori or Ogun State issue has he deceived the people before. They then thought that convincing people that Dapo cannot be trusted is the only way for them to get at the winning winner, the powerful Yayi and reduce his influence and the spread of his tentacles. Well that is an effort in futility because Dapo has not deceived the people before, his work is so detailed and well carried out in a verifiable manner. Yayi on the other hand is a mighty iroko with a lot of Ajanaku standing guard around him and the Yoruba's say eni ba mi Ajanaku ara e lo mi.
Whatever, Dapo Oke has joined forces with a winner and it is within his right that no one can deny. The attack was no surprise because Dapo is a big one with great influence, the attacks on him in recent days shows this clearly. If he is not a huge asset he would not even be missed not to talk about attacking his beautiful personality.
The news is Dapo Oke did not build his good image because of any single person. Instead of them to build the kids around them up like Dapo Oke, they are encouraging them to be abusive and be disrespectful abusing kings and subjects on their behalf. If that was the way those that groomed Dapo did, they would not be fighting dirty to have him in their camp now. Losing a social and political giant like Dapo by those who would not work hard should be painful no doubt but they should blame themselves for not doing all it takes to hold on to him.
The counsel from me is for Dapo attackers is to stop writing wrong history because soon after the toiling of the day and the victory after work in the evening, the moonlight will come and it will be time to tell tales of the contributions of all to the victory or against it. Also, the principalities should begin to groom the boys around them to walk the path of honour so that they can become the future Dapo Okes that can only be attacked with cooked lies because he is man in whom there is no fault. Dapo can't be pulled down. The latest lies did not even attract traffic.
Whatever you encouraged or teach the young ones around you to be doing today will be used towards you or your interest tomorrow. Teaching them to lie today and encouraging them in the act of character assassination mean you may become their target tomorrow.
