Civics Weekly Online

JOKE ORELOPE, ABOYADE AND ENILOLOBO AT CLIMAX OF THE INTRIGUES Story by Razaq Adedeji Jimoh T’omode ba subu a wo’waju. T’agba ba subu a w’eyin wo. This is a proverb from the pouch of Yoruba’s wisdom. In a literal translation, it means when a toddler falls, he simply rises up to move on; but when adult falls, he rises up to look back – to see what may have caused his falling. This is the fundamentals of this essay with a poser for the just re-elected Lagos State Governor, Babajide Olushola Sanwo-Olu. It also goes with complementary desirability for his deputy, Dr. Kadiri Obafemi Hamzat. It is a rumbling distraught to this writer and many other concerned Lagosians whether the Governor will thence move on with the sole business of governance. Or he will look back imperatively to reevaluate the path to his victory as well as the 2023 general elections in the Lagos corridor – as a cause to strengthen the polity and base of the political platform he trod through for it. With his own vi...

AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR SANWO-OLU FROM THE STATE OF OSUN By Hakeeb Toyosi Your Excellency, There should be no basis to doubt that you must by now be aware of the return of Oranmiyan Chief Priest to Alimosho in your Lagos. this refers to arrival of the Interior Minister, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola in Alimosho, ostensibly to play a role in the coming Governorship Elections on Saturday. What is clearly in doubt is whether you would be apt to discern the gambits in the cynical upbeats of his mission to play a role in the election for your second term of office. I mean whether you would want to connect the dots of history to chart out your own faults, even if they came by innocence of your liberal conscience, in the failure of Alimosho to deliver victory vote for Asiwaju Tinubu at the time he direly needed it. When you opened your arms to embrace Alhaji Abdullahi Enilolobo, a scion of Oranmiyan ideology and political Turk of Ogbeni Aregbe, in spite of the public knowledge of th...

‘It’s a Greater Alimosho in the Horizon’ – Pundits Story by Toyo C. Ngem THE strange developments evolving from dynamics in the Lagos Progressives clan is yet to abate and may not likely do so in the weeks ahead. The recent in the Alimosho All Progressives Congress (APC) was the surprise thrown up by what many may want to describe as a sudden sack of the boss by his servant. This should rightly fit the metaphor for the recent decision of Hon Doyin Salami (aka “Agba’) to dump his age long political leader and benefactor, Alhaji Abdullahi Enilolobo, for the camp of the Lagos West Vice Chairman, Chief Sunday Babatunde Aboyade. In the mixed reactions of accolades and condemnations that followed this for the former Sole Administrator of Egbe-Idimu LCDA among the party faithful in their rank and file, some political analysts were apt to say it portended a new progressively inclined greater Alimsoho in the offing. The story of Agba submitting allegiance to the leadership of Aboyade as t...