by Abiodun Ishola Ladepo
If Sowore did this, no serious person would have responded.
You, a sitting state governor, are inviting foreign entities to investigate the circumstances surrounding the abduction of students and teachers in your state – meaning you have no confidence in the Federal government and the institutions of national security?
Ase ewe a maa sunko looto?
The efficacy of this guy’s Ilufemiloye juju has been significantly watered down.
That self-assuredness is gone.
That self-confidence is gone.
That self-control is gone.
What’s left, and apparent, is fear – fear couched in bravado.
What an executive discombobulation!
What a meltdown!
Why the heck are you governor then?
So, all the social media posts we’ve been seeing lately questioning the authenticity of the kidnapping were being surreptitiously sponsored by a rich and powerful person?
Two teachers were butchered (one on camera), at least one student reportedly died in captivity, and at least four security personnel lost their lives.
The nation put together an impressive, collaborative, Joint anti-kidnapping operation sparing no effort nor expense.
And you are here suggesting this was orchestrated to undermine your presidential ambition?
You think this Major-General will join anyone in playing kalokalo with the lives of the citizens he’s sworn to protect?
Are you okay?
Who are you gan sef?
What presidential ambition?
APM?
Phuleeeeeze.
No wonder they stopped sharing intelligence with you about the rescue operation – the reason you were out of state when the D-Day occurred.
Everything is politics to you.
The poor victims; you are pissing on – perhaps even shitting on – the agony of their 56-day captivity. You are suggesting to them they were victims of politics.
You are desecrating their pain, their fear, their anguish.
You are re-scaring them when all they need is to begin healing.
For what?
Power?
For ephemeral power?
The first two bills you signed into law in 2019 were the anti-corruption bill and the anti-open grazing bill.
I can’t speak too much about corruption in the State. Apparently, there’s been zero corruption in the State since you took over because I haven’t heard of anyone investigated or charged. You all are squeaky clean.
But as a farmer (and cattle farmer at that), I can speak to open grazing. There’s not been any enforcement of the anti-open grazing law. Everyone sees cattle and Fulani herders everywhere in the State, including even in Ibadan.
You believe the Federal government has sole responsibility for internal security? Why then have you been collecting billions in security votes?
Why don’t you blaze the trail by being the first governor to account publicly for the money you have collected as security votes?
Is it the case here that we are positioning ourself as a thorn in the flesh of the Federal government so that when we lose the presidential election in 2027 and lose our immunity and the EFCC, ICPC, and the DSS swoop in, we can cry “persecution”?
Are we trying to lay the ground for asylum abroad when we flee Nigeria to escape prosecution for alleged massive corruption?
Gbogbo iyen o tie kanmi rara.
That’s between you and Abuja.
What concerns me are the two DA MNG ISR aircraft you said with your own mouth, in July 2025, that you purchased for N7.7B of Oyo State’s money.
Before your “international organizations” come to investigate Oriire, please explain something to us:
Where are our DA 42 MNG ISR aircraft?
Two weeks after the school abduction occurred in Oyo State and people asked where the aircraft were, you stated (on May 17, 2026) that the aircraft were sitting on an Air Force base in Lagos where they were to be assembled, and that the manufacturers had just arrived in the country.
You stated further that “it will take the manufacturers about two (2) weeks to finish assembling the surveillance aircraft?”
It is now July 13.
Where are the aircraft?
Before your “international organizations” start investigating Nigeria, I am calling on the national media to start asking about the circumstances surrounding our DA 42 MNG ISR aircraft?
I’m calling on the national media because I suspect that many local (Oyo State) media practitioners, out of fear for their lives, may not be able to ask and harp on it.
Where are our two DA 42 MNG ISR aircraft?
Ko je bo se je.
Doxology.
©️ Abiodun Ishola Ladepo
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