How Would Oyo State Remember Abiola Ajimobi?, By Oladeinde Olawoyin - Premium Times Opinion

Opinion: How Would Oyo State Remember Abiola Ajimobi?, By Oladeinde Olawoyin

And so, to talk about Ajimobi’s legacy is to delve into a chaos of narratives – the excellent, the good, the bad, and the abysmal. From the young undergraduate who escaped being tear-gassed at the Secretariat, to the Okada rider in Apete who now enjoys his trip to Ijokodo after the government fixed the Apete bridge…Oyo people all have valid stories to tell, and none would cancel the other.

, a party controlled by those whose claim to a puritan progressive ideology that, many would argue, remains steeped in controversies. In the end, the oft-trumpeted triumph of interest over ‘friendship/enemity’ in politics played its parts in that instance. But that’s by the way). Despite being one of our distant “Egbons” in Oja’ba, I saw Ajimobi only once before his death last month, at the grand finale of his 2011 guber campaign in Mapo Hall. In that election, he was ultimately the shoo-in because every politically conscious citizen of Oyo State had had enough of the brigandage, thuggery and killings in the State at the time. We needed a breath of fresh air, and the urbane, suave, well-traveled, educated, outspoken, and intelligent Abiola Ajimobi represented that dream.

When you add all of these to the pains of those who suffered unpaid pension arrears and civil servants who lived in penury without payments in the autumn of his second tenure, you have that lethal weapon with which Ajimobi’s traducers could malign him to no end, and, to some degree, justifiably so.

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