Now that Oyetola is governor

IT is laughable that Nigeria is always trying to resolve election dispute with law, when the polls are usually conducted, with nearly no regard for the law. You may argue that law is an antidote to lawlessness. Maybe. But unless law has a connectivity point to the lawlessness, it would just crawl over a lawless situation like a snake taking a sunny stroll by the mountainside, leaving no imprints and impression behind, despite using all it has to crawl over.

Thousands of electorate will be paid to vote, millions of ballot papers are fraudulently thumb-printed at Government Houses, palaces and other nocturnal corners, thugs like Oluomo of Oshodi snatch and burn tens of ballot boxes, cows are counted on queues longer than human-formed, hunger and disease-ravaged IDP camps churn out more votes than areas where people have water to bath, with a decent meal before strolling to polling booths, among other electoral heist, and you call some funny characters in over-sized suits and worn wigs, to sit for a few hours and resolve results cobbled together by compromised military, incredulous university dons who suddenly develop numerical amnesia on live TV over faked results and a Big Brother on a mountainous abode. You gotta be joking mheen.

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Hope of a semblance of justice could be nurtured were the old-men-feeling-godlike only broken and flawed, on deep fundamental convictions. For clarity, what is happening here with judges boldly carrying APC/PDP emblem isn’t novel and exclusive. In the home of constitutional democracy and jurispudence, there are proud Clinton-era, Obama-era, Trump-pick, Latino-backed, Blacks-supporting, judges. All manner, and they give hare-brained judgements, like a judge who is Blacks-biased and ordered a Coloured serial rapist freed because he came from a good home. Yes, Jesus said a good tree will not bear evil fruit. In the world, it takes grace for children from homes with best of morals, to turn out great. The baal-worshipping society will see to that, except mercy speaks.

What is closest to the predictable political justice the Nigerian system foists on our elections is the census censure currently raging between Trump and haters. Obama by executive fiat removed the citizenship question from Census, Trump may resort to the same Executive Order, to restore it and the American Supreme Court says bonafide Americans should not be known! I will understand Eritrea, no demeaning meant, doing it for Foreign Direct Investment, but not America. What should it be difficult to know everyone and everybody, by counting all, and still knowing real Yankees.

Nigeria’s Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, both, most notorious for the horrendous when election cases are involved, say Gboyega Oyetola, is the governor. That should end it, regardless of the prevalent feeling across board that Nurudeen got most of the votes bought by all the candidates in the poll.

Today, the Court of Appeal under Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, is generally ruled a safe haven for APC. People are not foolish. They see and talk, even if the force of their talking is limited to WeChat. The stock being taken today by the people’s court may not completely be a wasted effort. On the Lord’s Day when the hills would not provide succor for the hunted, today’s gist may become the Book of Remembrance. At least around Ilesa during the 1983 kill-and-go pogrom, some families whose ancestral homes lay in utter ruins till today were just remembered for always being “Demo” (opposition to progressivism) and everything standing in their names, including memories, was finished up in minutes. Let men be careful today because of a tomorrow even the military may not be able to contain.

I congratulate Governor Oyetola. Some men are like that. They will just have it. If Governor Ganduje didn’t end up having it like Oyetola, since their cases are strikingly similar, then heavens must have ruled Nurudeen out of gubernatorial favour. God is trying to teach him money won’t buy everything. I’m certain his brother, Davido’s Dad, would have had a smoother ride. But, who knows.

A prominent lawyer on Oyetola’s side had decidedly queried if I would be proud having Nurudeen as governor. I hope that perception of a low-life in a rich home many have of him didn’t sway those five wiggers who sided with the incumbent. A senior colleague and pastor said he was ministered to, I believe by the Holy Spirit, that the judgment was perception-rooted.

That would be sad because nobody knows anything about the life we live and the world we live in. God picks vessels as He desires. Jehu was unworthy in every sense of it, but God needed him to finish the Jezebel business. If you ask why Nuru, because he clowns around, why Buhari then in a country with countless obscure professors, a Wole Soyinka and Diasporan Philip Emegwali, described as the smartest man alive. Why Trump, with child-like disposition but delivering on crucial issues, including economy, while the very presidential ones like Macron are failing and falling big time.

God brings men for seasons, though such graced fellows can choose to mess their time up, like many are doing around here now. If God wanted governor out of Nuru, He would see to it and if he stayed on course, Osun would be great under him. The greatest challenge with our rulers today isn’t their capacity and capability, it is the arrogance that comes with their service. In such a situation of rapacious pride, God Himself says He would resist them. Oyetola has four years to wear the epaulette, it would be his call to stay in God’s purpose. I have no advice for him, only wish him well.