There are lies. There are half-truths. And then, there is whatever it was that Ismail Omipidan penned in his desperate attempt to exonerate Bola Tinubu and Gboyega Oyetola from the political disaster they engineered in Osun. His essay is less of a commentary and more of a damage-control memo gone wrong โ a tragicomic blend of revisionism, sycophancy, and selective amnesia.
Letโs not waste time.
You Call That a Rebuttal? No, Thatโs a Confession.
Omipidan starts with lofty words about South-West Muslims being marginalised under Tinubu. Yes, we agree. But then he performs the most shameless flip-flop โ turning around to defend the very man presiding over that marginalisation. What kind of intellectual gymnastics is that?
If this is how political loyalty now works โ betraying your own people to defend a broken arrangement โ then we must ask: what exactly are you loyal to? Principle or proximity to power?
Omipidan doesnโt speak for the Ummah. He speaks for his meal ticket.
Aregbesolaโs โSinโ? Daring to Think.
Your real problem with Aregbesola, Ismail, is that he dared to be bigger than the shadow Tinubu and Oyetola wanted him to crawl under. You hated that he had a vision beyond Lagos godfatherism. You couldnโt stand that he had a brain and backbone โ two things that threaten those who only exist to bow and nod.
Letโs talk plainly: Aregbesola was punished for not licking boots. And because Oyetola was too small to fill his shoes, you and your ilk have spent the last four years trying to burn those shoes entirely.
But no matter how hard you try, you canโt erase impact.
Tinubuโs Dirty Hands โ Exposed
Your attempt to shield Tinubu is laughable. You think by sprinkling a few lines like โTinubu advised Aregbesola to delay the anniversaryโ youโre absolving him? No, my brother. Youโre confirming what weโve always known โ that Tinubu pulled the strings and chose sides.
He didnโt act like a father. He acted like a feudal lord. And what did he reap? A shattered party in Osun, a loss to PDP, and the humiliation of watching his own house collapse.
You dare ask how anyone could say Tinubu caused the rift? We dare ask: how could anyone NOT say it? He was the oil that lubricated the machine of betrayal.
Oyetola โ A Governor in Name, Not in Spirit
Letโs be honest: Oyetola was never built for politics. He was a placeholder, a technician in a terrain that required leadership and connection. He ruled Osun like a boardroom, not a battleground.
He inherited a winning team and dismantled it out of personal insecurity. He isolated loyal foot soldiers, and by the time he realised what he had done, it was too late. The people had turned their backs.
The truth is bitter, but here it is: Oyetola couldnโt unite his party, couldnโt unite his base, and couldnโt even hold his own state. And you, Ismail, were part of the machinery that helped him fail.
The Akinola Diversion โ A Joke That Writes Itself
You mentioned Charles Akinola as proof of โstrategicโ appointments. Really? A single technocrat appointment is your evidence that Muslims are being carried along?
Letโs call it what it is: a bone thrown to keep people like you quiet. Meanwhile, the table is filled with others feasting, and the Ummah remains hungry.
You want us to celebrate crumbs while others dine?
We are not that desperate. And we are no longer that blind.
The Final Insult: Gaslighting the Ummah
The worst part of your piece isnโt the lies or the revisionism. Itโs the subtle insult that those who support Aregbesola are just โemotional,โ while your position is somehow rooted in facts. What arrogance.
Let me remind you, Ismail: it was Aregbesola who stood for Muslim rights when it was politically risky. It was Aregbesola who gave Hijab-wearing girls the courage to walk into schools with dignity. It was Aregbesola who made Islamic holidays official in Osun. And it was Aregbesola who carried the Ummah on his back when it mattered.
What exactly did Oyetola do? Play safe and keep quiet?
So no, we are not โemotional.โ We are just not gullible. And we refuse to be gaslighted by former journalists turned palace scribes.
In Conclusion: You Canโt Silence the Truth
This isnโt about personalities anymore. Itโs about a pattern. A pattern of betrayal, of manipulation, of elites who use religion for campaigns and then discard the faithful once they grab power.
We will not be silenced.
Not by Tinubuโs errand boys.
Not by Oyetolaโs speechwriters.
And certainly not by people like you, Ismail Omipidan, who know the truth but choose to bury it under loyalty cheques and access politics.
History is watching.
The Ummah is awakening.
And your kind of politics?
Ko le work again.
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