Never one to shy from rippling through difficult terrains including those where angels feared to tread, Abimbola’s article, ever point-blank and incisive, couldn’t unfortunately resist ther overture to that popular, yet simplistic narrative that although Abiola Ajimobi may have delivered stellar performance, his supposed conceit did him in!
It is certainly a familiar story. A man known to have done well loses and election which would ordinarily been a walkover. In my own state of Kogi for instance, we had a governor who performed excellently only to be suffer the pain of rejection few years later for the same sins that Ajimobi is accused of – of talking too much and for being rather brash.
Back to Ajimobi – the man who defied all the odds to earn a second term , losing election is supposed to big deal. In fact, losing to Peoples’ Democratic Party Kola Balogun in the contest for the Oyo South senatorial seat by a mere difference of 13,502 is supposed to be terrible, irrecoverable injury – a re-enactment of the so-called myth ofNever mind that the man has since moved on: “I hereby accept the result as announced.
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