Once again, Osun APCโs unofficial megaphone, Ismail Omipidan, has taken to his typewriter to pen what can best be described as the latest chapter in the Book of Political Bitterness call it Osun APCโs Book of Lamentations, Chapter 3. In this newest epistle to President Bola Tinubu, Omipidan doubles as preacher, prophet, and party purist, warning of doomsday if Governor Ademola Adeleke is even seen shaking hands with the APC.
Letโs be clear: this isnโt really about roads in Ejigbo or puddles in Ido-Osun. Itโs not even about party loyalty or “keeping the APC alive.” Itโs about a desperate political class grappling with the reality that the dancing senator they mocked has outperformed them in political footwork and popular appeal.
Omipidan, ever the loyal defender of the Osun APC elite, wants President Tinubu to know that the gates of their political heaven are closed to sinners like Adeleke unless, of course, heโs coming to lose. The audacity! The same party that celebrated mass defections and boasted of being a “broom that sweeps all” now suddenly finds holiness in opposition?
You really canโt make this up.
This is a party that, after losing an election it never imagined it could lose, has now appointed itself moral custodian of Osunโs future, despite failing to govern the state impressively when it had the chance. Omipidan speaks of Adelekeโs โdeficiencies in character, content, and capacityโ as though the APC has been led by saints and technocrats since 1999. Glass houses. Stones. You get the point.
If Adeleke dares to defect, Omipidan warns, the APC could collapse as if the party isnโt already being held together with tape and whispered threats. He name-drops Aregbesola, PDP defectors, and โloyalistsโ who would rather โsiddon lookโ than campaign. Itโs an entire symphony of sour grapes a melodrama worthy of its own Yoruba Nollywood series: โWhen the Dancer Wins.โ
Letโs not kid ourselves if Adeleke were to join the APC today, half the people throwing tantrums would be the first to upload his picture with Tinubu, clapping emojis included. This open letter isn’t about integrity itโs about insecurity. Itโs not a prophecy itโs a protest from those sidelined by their own political irrelevance.
And so, as Omipidan writes yet another chapter of tears, threats, and self-pity disguised as strategy, one thing is clear:
And the Lamentations continueโฆ
