Your Excellency
WHEN A LEADER IS A
BOLI PAPER: A LESSON IN LEADERSHIP VALUE
Let me set it early here that this serial is coming as matters arising from the first and is coming in two parts. The first is my vindication from that preamble as evidenced by your last historical stakeholders meeting you held recently in Alimosho. The other is the lesson in leadership, which arose from the tirades that trailed it.
It should be clear that I held no grudge with anybody, least with you as my leader. I only raised a constitutional issue I thought to be the ultimate panacea to the Alimosho crisis as it evolved with your luck of 45℅ power share largesse and your induction into the GAC. For the avoidance of doubt, Article 9(2)(ii) of the APC -- our party's -- Constitution defines the obligations of party members of which attendance at the party meetings is made a priority for our consciousness.
On the part of your leadership elusiveness from Alimosho which makes you inaccessible by party faithful, it was divined that I would yet be vindicated by the statement of GAC, which you co-signed just a couple of days past. In it goodwill message to mark the 73rd birthday of our National Leader, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR), the GAC affirmed that 'accessibility' is the hallmark of leadership among all other attributes. It said in paragraph 5 of the media publication: "You are accessible..." (The Nation, 29/03/25 p29). It goes to show that despite his tight schedule as the President, Asiwaju is still connected with them back home because he realises that ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL and it's from that dictum that he derived his stay in Abuja.
All this being the furious bullet of truth I fired in my preamble to you, it was so unfortunate that some 'Egbeda Lapdogs would go on the rampage in blind protest against the truth that has merely come to dance in the open market.
Thus far in this cacophony of lingering Alimosho disunity, we have vilified Alhaji Abdullahi Enilolobo. We loathe Hon Bisi Yusuf. And, curious it would seem but glaring enough, all that were in your sake of single line leadership to be asserted for the peace. All the while, your silence enjoyed the froth. No one went on the rampage in baying for blood. But when now it's due time to confront you that in your silence is the cache of incendiary munitions stoking the disharmony in Alimosho, the lapdogs would rather rage at the facts of the issue. It was not unexpected anyway. It was only disappointing that it was rather a rampage of the sycophants. Those of note were the Egbeda lapdogs, which may be hard to fault as their right in call to duty of sore lickers. Or how else would a bootlicker prove his loyalty if not by such a typical fly in rage. However, the one of note for the depth of 'its' invective was the Artificial Intelligence (AI) variant of them -- the cyborg programmed with Reverse Psychology and named 'Didi Bugatti'.
In spite of their tirades, nevertheless, I would turn out being fulfilled that I could muster the courage to confront you with the truth the high and mighty in our caucus are rather too cowardly ensnared by fear to tell you. It is thus beyond a mere solace for me that you would yet be one to vindicate my capacity to uphold the social essence of my profession as a journalist. At a UNICEF program organised in December 2024 to drive attention of the media to mainstreaming issues of Child Rights to limelight, the cogent statement I could note in the contributing speech of Eze Araba, President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), was the context of "media power". He said: " As journalists, editors and media (and orthodox authors), we wield a unique power: the power of story-telling. The narratives we create can inspire, mobilise and drive change" (parenthesis mine). This statement naturally came handy now for a need to justify the impact of the first serial, which no one could have any plausible basis to disconnect it from your recent HISTORICAL and FIRST EVER political meeting you would hold with your followers on the soil of Alimosho in over 20years of your leadership postures in progressives' cave.
Who would have thought you could ever come down from your highly cherished 'Radinson Blue high horse' to stand at level-head with us in Alimosho? Or would the Cyborg Bugatti be willing to push out a narrative that your recent meeting with the Justice Forum stakeholders at the Ebenezer Primary School, Egbeda, has any precedence? Surely, it could not have been a mere coincidence that it came on the heels of my telling the truth to your power instinct. Today it makes a life fulfilling joy that I have imparted you with value -- the value of a cause to help you strengthen your political base because not of a few members of ASM/JF have called me to thank me for the open letter after that stakeholders meeting. Thus being all I have to say about your impulsive positive but silent response to my opening memo.
This leads us to the second part, which borders on the rage of diatribe at me over this value impact.
When the Egbeda lapdogs and the cyborg descended on me with their invectives, I could only smile -- seeing it as a new opportunity to "steal" something from the Egbeda Cabal that programmed the Cyborg I would like to respond to. As William Shakespeare famously makes it a sound bite: "The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief". In this case, I would deem to be stealing dignity from them because they came on the wheel of sophistry to worth the dishonour for the worthless.
The arising matter came from the attempt to 'Natasha' the message of my preamble by twisting the narratives off the mark of its substance. They came in arrays of diverse absurdity of false impressions. The one of interest was the Bugatti's, whose understanding of my message was to conclude that the memo spit anger of my discontent with your refusal to support my proposal. And from his view point, I was able to derive a subject of leadership value for discuss under this topic: "When a Leader is a
Boli Paper".
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In part of his tirades he laced with sufficient insults to suit his programming, the Bugatti said: "the @countyjpc is a fraud. You put up a proposal to celebrate someone's birthday. You are turned down and because of that, you picked up a fight".
This is only a flow from his tunnel of vision. First, the project he meant for reference is deeper than his shallow presentation. I think his Egbeda handlers would have done him good with the true and full knowledge of it. Second, his insinuation is a symptom of what I should call the 'Natasha Syndrome'. For the clarity, Natasha Syndrome is the latest lexicon of synonym to use of blackmail to twist the fact of an issue to self advantage. While I would not want to ignore the fact that an idea of a 'leadership bootcamp' was truly proposed, his reasoning, in spite of being so warped, would better be converted to an altruistic lesson in leadership value.
From his correlation of the proposal with my memo as the two variables, Bugatti seemed to present a view that loyalty to a leader should be a function of how well the leader could be willing to serve the interest of the followers. What remains to be explained is the plausibility of his insinuated hypothesis.
It is a common understanding that leadership is neither a title nor an office. It is an act of responsibility, as Tunji-Ojo observed in his own birthday tribute to his boss. To be sure, leadership is a burden borne by those privileged to connect with power at whatever degree.
Sequel to this as a cause to evaluate the value substance of a leader, we may want to query what 'Power' means by itself in the real sense.
In aggregate of its diverse definitions, the convergence of the meaning is 'influence'. As Abiodun Komolafe says' "Power refers to the ability to influence others (The Nation, 22/03/2025, p9).
Deductively, it shows that leadership carries the burden to impart lives. And where a leader fails in this responsibility to his followers -- collectively or severally, especially where it is manifestly clear that the leader has the wherewithal to do it, such a leader becomes so useless as a piece of paper used to wrap boli -- Roasted plantain -- by the seller. For further clarity, a used paper is deemed valuable in the hand of a boli seller. But the moment it leaves that shelf corridor of its circulation into the hand of a boli buyer, it value is completely vanished.
But then, the uselessness of a leader may be taken to the extreme such that even a boli paper may be more valuable in metaphor. That is when the boli paper finds its circulation into the community of open daefecations. Here, it finds value in cleaning faecal anus for its final value exhaustion.
Bugatti may now pick his take for his harebrained relation of my memo to the proposal you refused to support -- wherever he got that from. But like I said earlier, this discourse is not meant to be my repartee to his vulgarity. It is to establish a potential damage an unrefined mind could do to a flow of logic from a sound mind. I should not be right to see a sin in his proof of loyalty with efforts to take my furious bullet of truth for you. But it's quite unfortunate that he would do it with a ragtag of replies lacking in relevant substances of value that could help with a repartee from deep tact of leadership concern.
Saying all this, I have not intended to make the leadership lesson a syllogism of your case howsoever. It's just unfortunate that the Egbeda Cyborg would make a hash of the project that had the state approval for its value by bringing it forth in your defence.
It nevertheless helps to expose the certificate quackery of the Bugatti in his claim to Public Relation expertise, when he would rather bungle a case in cause of an intended damage control.
Ordinarily, I had intended this serial for a discuss of the time we formed your first political Army back in 2004 -- a time the Bugatti was yet a suckling infant far away in the bush of Egbema Village and Apon was still licking the anus of Alhaji Abdullahi Enilolobo he now holds in extreme disdains.
In conlusion, it should be a lesson to all that there is a difference between the doers of politics and readers of politics. This shall be explained in due course of our engagements, as you yet studded with another leership failings with "
Jankara Democracy" that trailed our selection of aspirants for the coming Party Primaries
Yours Truly,
Razaq Adedeji Jimoh
Organizing Secretary,
Egbe-Idimu LCDA ASM/JF/PCC
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