DAUGHTER AND FATHER: THEIR WALK IN THE FATE OF CHRIST

CONTINUED SERIAL OF 'ONE ALIMOSHO'LEADERSHIP MANTRA

SPONSORED, Content by Razaq Adedeji Jimoh

It is not clear if any mortal being could claim to have scientifically established the sins of Jesus Christ for which he was persecuted, prosecuted and executed by crucifiction. Beyond the intrinsic culture of envy and portentous fear of change by the Jewish establishment, no sin was discernibly or latently committed by Christ. The empirical fact of this is also established in the Bible by the expressed conduct of the Pontus Pilate. I have for long concluded that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was only walking in the fate of Christ when his persecution began in the locals of his politicians' cave soon after the primary elections of the Alliance for Democracy in 1998 and his eventual governorship victory in 1999.

I would later see the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SSAP-SDG), Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire (OFR) in the simile of her own walk in the fate of Bola Tinubu in the politics of Alimosho. The zero sum of this fate connecting the trio in their epochal discuss is their lack of any real life sins known in common sense to man, which could be pinned to them for any cause to justify their adversaries' hostilities that sometimes rhyme death wish at extreme. On the contrary, the trio are needful materials for exemplary cases of what humanity should be and seeing to be. However, it is good to know that not in all cases that good acts ever passed by without conscious notice of it by those with heart of gratefulness. Such was the encounter of the sponsor of this serial of 'One Alimosho' Leadership Line mantra with Civics Weekly as he called to tell his wish to show gratitude to Her Excellency. Beyond this sponsor are also numerous testimonies to the value impact of politics the former Deputy Governor had brought to bear on the community of Alimosho Federal Constituency.

Maybe it's high time the record was set straight about this mantra. It is a serial campaign meant to restore Alimosho back to her glory of early years of this democracy. The years when the Federal Constituency was the synosure of the Lagos electoral victory. The argument of the sponsor is that it was so only because there was a unity that coalesced around a single leadership line "Why would the current era be so discriminatory because of gender factor" the sponsor queried. The question now is: does the sustained plot to undermine the leadership of Joke Orelope have anything to do with her gender? It may not necessarily be so. It is just a creed in politics that those with smooth climb on the ladder must garner more enemies per every step of their rising. Curiously, it is also a creed that those with hindsight must see from their rear.

It may surprise many that this mantra is actually a sponsored project from an unexpected quarters. Unexpected in the sense that the sponsor who has craved anonymity passionately may not necessarily be a politician. He was only attracted to the issues around Her Excellency after reading an article in the Civixs Weekly. The missive entitled The N2million Gift of Joke Orelope to Civics Weekly: An Oxymoron of True False. In theme, it was a question of what could have been the sins of the woman politician -- that some politicians would just resolve that she must be persecuted for all they care, despite all the development she has brought to Alimosho.

The excerpt reads: "The truth is to say other politicians on the fringes of working to actualize Tinubu's presidential ambition were not the direct victim of the media assault he has suffered since 2007. They are not likely to weigh effectively the psychological torture Tinubu could have gone through before the will of God eventually prevailed. The closest evidence was given by Idowu Akinlotan – the Palladium maestro of The Nation on Sunday. He confirmed that Tinubu had at one time considered giving up on his ambition, particularly in the heat of the ENDSARS carnage. Wisdom of God nevertheless prevailed when he (Tinubu) heeded the nudging of close quarter allies to rather forge ahead with the cause...

"Her Excellency evidently appears to be the local victim of the Asiwaju’s experience in the national fronts. A lot of mischiefs and false information have been swirled around her but with the irony that the billows of the smoke rather ooze out from her own progressives’ political constituency. And yet she remains the significant visage of exemplary performance the APC could flaunt for the pride of governance in Alimosho. To her traducers, however, to smear her person with ugly grease of a mediocre is a greater cause than projection of any APC value she brings to the people far and near.

What now brought the sponsor out to reach this magazine this time was the penultimate publication in which the woman politician was reported to have talked tough against any attempt to undermine her leadership in Alimosho. He claimed to marvel at her boldness and courage in doing that. He does not appear to know Joke Orelope beyond the distance of seeing her behind the television screen. According to him, he became interested in the woman because she saved his property.

"I have lost hope that my building of six flats could ever be redeemed from collapsing until the woman came to do all the roads around the Anglican church in the Orelope side of Shasha" on your way to Bamish Road". He described the place precisely as Sarumi/Gani Alayaki area in Orelope before you link Kudirat Abiola Street on your way to Bamishe in Shasha. He then wondered why would "politicians always want to throw away their best hands in the name of doing politics", he said. It is the truth Alimosho could only ignore to their own peril. The electoral value of Joke Orelope has continued to grow tremendously in Alimosho with continued numbers of roads and street lights installation works she continues to do. It is therefore a great mercy of God that she is doing all this at a time Alimosho is in dire need of a return to her past glory.