ALIMOSHO LIBERATION DAY IS May 10: DAY OF MESSIAH THAT SAVED ALIMOSHO FROM ACME MANIPULATIONS DESTROYING ALIMOSHO

Story by Razaq Adedeji Jimoh

AT this junction, this writer could only wonder how many of Alimosho politicians is savvy enough in reading politics to appreciate that Bisi Yusuf had come more as a divine grace to the Federal Constituency at a time the crisis of disunity appeared irresolvable. To appreciate him for this is to assert the understanding that more than any other possible causes, the State Leadership of the All Progressives Congress had been highly complicit in fueling the crisis that had been rocking Alimosho APC – overtly or covertly. As a matter of fact, the Acme had been the driver of disunity in this local Chapter for quite a while until the intervention voice of the Progressives' Induna became louder in projecting Bisi as his divine wand after all. May 10, 2025 -- the date of APC Primaries for the Local Government ections was the definitive date that the reality was done on Alimosho progressives that the lingering crisis was over eventually under the direct command of Bisi Yusuf. Setting out the missing links to this reality is the set objective of this part in the serial that started as Bisi the Single Stone.

There is no doubt that those who bought the last edition of Civics Weekly with the Cover entitled The Push for Jonathan Presidency in 2027 must have read this piece as the part 2. However, in mood of this aura pervading as his birthday, it is here brought online for the benefit of all Alimosho residents to appreciate the working mysteries of God. Some might want to call it a tribute to him anyway. Thinking him the 'Messiah' of Alimosho Progressives in regard of this discourse might as well count for this writer's opinion. But when an open conscience strives to connect the dots of many curious coincidences leading to this conclusion, not a few might concur to the view on the long run.

But a caveat might be imperative to say that the 'Acme' mentioned here might not be inferred in the blanket term of the Central Working Committee but the many holding the visage of Alimosho there along with those giving them the indulging influence to get away with their undoing. The so called LGA Party Chairmen of the time should readily come to mind. They are still there anyway with some of them yet wrecking havoc in their corridors in this new dispensation. Or how else would a so called Party Chairman, against all sense of responsibility, deny a past Executive Council Chairman his leadership place even against the clearly expressed dictate of the template that came from the State. That is the vintage 'Sanjay' -- thoughtful self-skilled politician in the "Game of Fox" for you. This is also another serial to continue on a latter date.

The cause and destination of this essay in discourse could have been thoughtfully established from the refereed originating edition. Saying this is not subjectively owing to a deeper reading of the title – “Bisi the Single stone”, which evaluated Alimosho to be “in an Interesting time”. It was also so indicative in context of the line that put the Prince of Omu Aran as the “God's chosen” for the 'Single-Line-Leadership' – an advocacy this essayist once canvassed as the only panacea to the endless crisis rocking the Alimosho “Progressives Cave” (as R. A. Jimoh describes the world of politicians in his new book – Once a Girl-child). It must nevertheless be acknowledged that while the cause for destination could be known, the course to it could as well be ambiguous or absolutely opaque to many. That surely makes the prospect to connect the dots of Bisi's path to power as the missing links.

However Bisi could have evolved for the job – mythically or skillfully and in statement or act; his sole recognition by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to conduct and direct the affairs of electioneering process leading to the 2025 local government elections was admittedly so effective at clipping wings of the gladiators laying claims to the apex leadership crown of Alimosho. It was potent enough to put them in dour demeanour to watch the Omu Aran Prince swung the sword of power at his discretions. Magically, to literally put it, everything began to reset from the consequential electoral upset that were to be credited to him. In all of that, anyway, it should yet be realistic that it is only the closeness of tree spans that imputes skillfulness into the monkey's flying range. The monkey has no flying skill after all. This is merely to say there was no magic Bisi had performed for the emerging peace in Alimosho beyond the act of practical wielding of political authority vested in him and practically devoid of any contradicting influence of the state leadership.

Given this understanding, this writer would not fail to admit his near creation of a myth of mystics around the man for the evolution of new order. It should be clarified here that this was merely in consonance with the Yoruba wisdom that “Ti aba p'eri agbo a p'eri ikoko ti a fi se”. Accordingly, the myth was acknowledge only in line with the renowned Asiwaju's mythical sagacity at making recourse to bold and unusually hard decisions to solve political problems. The one in this case was his decisive note that it was imperative to throw up a destruction of the establishment to achieve the desirable peace in the state – even in his absence. This writer thus found the authority to connect the Asiwaju's myth with Bisi so much to the extent of Asiwaju's declaration to the Alimosho leaders on their visit to Bourdillon on Eid-Kabir day that his choice of Bisi was because his “spirit worked with him”. That should convincingly lay to rest any further contentions about Bisi Yusuf's current leadership status.

But saying all this should not be misconstrued as an effort to disconnect Bisi with his fate of destiny as evolving. Destiny, to so acknowledge, is rooted in matters of myth, especially when driven by mysteries beyond human comprehension. The complexity of this in the case of Bisi is its fusion with some steps of practical politics the pundits would claim to evince him as the bomb at this profession, if his exhibited courage leading to his emergence as Asiwaju's choice should be properly evaluated. This is the missing link many appear to ignore about his path to grabbing the leadership crown.

As its axiomatic definition goes, 'politics is the struggle for power'. When the course of Bisi's political journey from his parting of ways with Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in about 2019 to his eventual success in this 2025 is adequately connected, it might be difficult not to conclude that he came by it on merit of what politics is all about.

We may begin with this writer's confession of his marveling at the game of politics he played on the course, especially his coming from behind to beat the two original contendants to the crown, who had boringly become pons for the manipulative intrigues of the Acme. Bisi’s throwing of his hat into the ring was a classical type of the empirical for the maxim that power is not served a la carte. Suffice to say that he evidently struggled and braced through the odds on path to his current factual claim to the Apex Leadership. The reality of this should at least hold forth to the extent of the outcome of the aforesaid visit of Alimosho leaders to the Bourdillon on the Eid-Kabir Day.

It thus meets the eye that his leadership could as well be deemed absolute and was made on the crest of unconventional hubris, idiosyncratic resilience and will of determination. He did not play the 'fox game' of running with the hare and dinning with the hound. At his thoughtful due time, he confronted and challenged the Alimosho woman GAC to a battle of political wit. Yes, he did that for the right reason of a cause against Her Excellency's pussyfooting to assert her right to the leadership as everybody so acknowledged it for her up until after the general elections when, in their thought -- right or wrong -- she began to exhibit signs of the ‘Narpoleon’ of George Orwel’s Animal Farm . And when Bisi was set to challenge her, he did so at the very rendezvous she convened to her territory and had Pa Oluwa, another GAC member, as the mediator of what was meant to be an arbitration that could help to settle the crown on her head. “But you are not my senior in politics”, Bisi rather insisted to seal the fate of the gathering as a failure after all. This was not without “a near open fisticuff that almost broke out between Bisi and Pa Badejojo”, an elder in the camp of the woman GAC ( R. A. Jimoh)

Unfortunately, very few of the APC members in Alimosho would readily connect the dots of this evolutionary struggle for the right lesson – not even those in their ranking of claims to experience for the right of leadership flaunting had been able to explain his path to the Asiwaju's heart accurately. The interesting parts of the Asiwaju’s visage of the ‘Sword of Damascus’ are just yet unfolding anyway. So let’s go on.

It is not for this writer's privileged knowledge of how Bisi went the 'Afonja' way by his beseeching alliance with forces in the Baba Eto and Agege 01 that made his victorious game interesting. It was for his insightfulness at discerning open opportunity and his complementary courage to grab it – even at great risk of peril to his political career.

The opportunity in this case was the Abdullahi Enilolobo's beleaguered leadership. Curiously, the opportunity was not even in that burdensome travail per se. It was rather in the failure of the alternative leadership in Joke Orelope, the woman GAC, to act appropriately with the right confidence – not only in time but with complementary scheming to keep the unconventional odds about the Enilolobo's origin in continum. As this writer would want to argue it for the fact anytime, Enilolobo was never pronounced a leadership successor by Aregbe or anyone for that matter. Until his final dropping this past May, he was only a leader by proxy, even though he had the providence to advantage with that.

The scheming of Joke Orelope to rather build another proxy leadership in Akinpelu Johnson, another far low sub-ranking person to Bisi Yusuf and a lot of other leaders, created the lacuna for Bisi's leadership intuition to fill as an open opportunity. It thus began with the birth of Alimosho United Forum (AUF).

Having stated the opportunity, his exploration of the opportunity at the speed of relevant time and the courage he invested in it is ultimately the next in line. And for the start, that courage was his resolve to square up to the APC State Chairman and challenged him with a salient statement in the oxymoron of silent loud voice of action that enough was enough. Or how else could one describe his audacity to invade Acme to cause the obscene that brought his relevance to limelight on June 24, 2024?