Civics Weekly Online

By Razaq Adedeji Jimoh So, Alhaji Abdullahi Ayinde Enilolobo offends no one after all. This is to say there should be no any cause to neglect the viper at our heel to nurse the fear of a tiger at far distance. And then, Ka dupe lowo Oluomo – that the Alimosho APC masses should be grateful to Prince Idris Balogun (aka Oluomo Kaafata) that left Enilobo camp to strengthen the struggle with his boldness to challeng the status-quo that today opened the Alimosho APC to the tenets of intra-party opposition democracy. The corollary utmost consequential value his initiative had brought to the party is the illumination to the dark crevices and recesses across the caucus’ schism for the discernible members and elders to see that a thousand and one Enilolobo could exist everywhere and anywhere, given the nature of human vulnerability to power abuse. Hence this writer’s conclusion with the subject of this missive. The clause – that “Enilolobo offends no one” – should have two alternative disce...

By Razaq Adedeji Jimoh FROM a tiger to a leader and thence to a viper, that sumarises the evolutionary path of Alhaji Abdullahi Enilolobo. To the knowledge of this writer, the last may not stick for credence, but in the voice of witnesses in the Alimosho Progressives Cave, it stays. And for imperative clarity, a ‘tiger’ in the politicians' cave is a metaphor of what is known to be 'area boys' in the open society. So it's like a tale of the slave becoming a king. An axiom says no prince survives the turn of a slave to be king because every strength becomes a threat in the latter’s weird imagination. This may be the lots of Enilolobo who now appears to have turned a viper from a leader in the conclusion of many faithful of the All Progressives Congress (APC) – even beyond the realm of his immediate constituency. But when evaluated critically with a discernible mind, Enilolobo was never a substantive leader of the Alimosho's APC. He merely acquired authority of the ...