I have read your open message tagged โEt tu, แปgbแบนni?โ and while I understand your emotional nostalgia and sentiments for past allegiances, I find your argument both intellectually disingenuous and politically myopic.
Let us be frank, brother Ibrahim. Politics is not religion. It is not eternal priesthood, nor is it a lifetime oath to one individual. It is a dynamic arena of interests, ideologies, negotiations, and evolving alignments. แปgbแบนni Rauf Aregbesola is not a boy scout; he is a seasoned political strategist with decades of experience not beholden to any man in perpetuity.
You quoted Shakespeareโs โEt tu, Brute?โ in an attempt to paint Aregbesolaโs new political move as betrayal. But I must ask: betrayal of what, exactly? Of loyalty to a man or to a cause? Was the cause always Bola Tinubuโs personal ambition, or the broader progressive ideals that brought men like Aregbe into the struggle in the first place?
You conveniently reference the 26th of November 2010, the day Aregbesola was sworn in as Governor of Osun a day indeed of triumph for the progressive movement. But you forget that his victory wasnโt handed to him in a bowl of amala. It was earned through years of sacrifice, legal warfare, grassroots mobilization, and the sweat of many loyal foot soldiers. Asiwaju played a significant role, no doubt. But the story was never a one-man tale.
You write as though Asiwaju Tinubu is an untouchable deity, and anyone who dares disagree with him has committed some sort of moral blasphemy. That, to put it plainly, is sycophantic and anti-democratic.
Letโs talk conscience: Is it not far more troubling when power is centralized, dissent is criminalized, and loyal comrades are reduced to mere errand boys in a one-man political structure? Is that the democracy you fought for?
Asiwaju has made his own choices. He sought power and now holds the highest office in the land. แปgbแบนni Aregbesola, too, has a right to his path even if it diverges from that of his former political ally. Thatโs not betrayal. That is maturity. That is evolution.
It is ironic that you accuse Aregbesola of plotting Asiwajuโs downfall, when all we are seeing is a re-alignment of ideas, not assassination plots. Your language is laced with melodrama, as if ADC is a coven and Aregbesola is wielding a dagger at midnight.
What you call โsad and unfortunate,โ others see as courage and independence. You want แปgbแบนni to remain perpetually indebted, eternally chained to a political godfather, no matter the personal cost? Thatโs not Omoluabi thatโs political slavery.
Let us not confuse gratitude with subservience. แปgbแบนni Aregbesola has paid his dues, served his mentor loyally for over two decades, and contributed immensely to the progressive project in Nigeria. If today he chooses to step into a broader coalition to help rescue Nigeria from its current state of dysfunction, then so be it. That is leadership.
And no, this isnโt about hatching anybodyโs downfall. It is about raising a new banner when the old one has faded and torn.
Aregbesola did not betray anyone. He simply refused to betray himself.
