Why YAYI can't be Ogun governor - Omooba Oloyede

By: HighCelebritySquard


A young talented  journalist, media consultant, Omooba Damilare Oloyede; a thoroughbred strategist who is also very much into policy advocacy is a citizen of Ogun state and for some years now he's a prominent son of the Yewa-Awori people in that part of Nigeria.
During a brief media chat with HighCelebritySquard, Oloyede expressed why he has been at the forefront of probing, examining and asking questions about the ancestral claims of the Lagos West Senator, Sen. Solomon Olamilekan Adeola who said he wants to join the contest in 2019 gubernatorial contest in the gateway state.

What's exactly your grouse with Sen. Adeola?

I don't have any grouse with him, he is a young politician that every young man should be proud of, he is a man that has by providence exhibited geometric rise in the legislature and for no reason should we not appreciate him, but when it comes to the issue of Ogun state, particularly the senatorial district of mine where we have been deprived of adequate political machinations that should have made us produce the governor, I think when the opportunity now arises, we should be sure the person we will present should pass the test of competence, knowledge of our plight, ancestral originality and should be one of us. If in my campaign for Ogun west to present a son of ours who we know and who also know us well is the reason for my perceived grouse with the Lagos senator then I make bold to say we are good to be enemies.

Why are you saying Senator Adeola is not from Ogun state?

My brother, we all know that the temerity and gut to claim any state will naturally come from where one was either born or where one parents either immediate or grandparents were actually born as well, in the case of the man in question, he was born in Lagos, his father wasn't  born in Ogun state(I have my facts), at no time has this man ever claimed to be from Ogun, he just saw the fact that the politics of Yewa-Awori is very tolerant and he wants to usurp our privilege due to some constitutional lacuna. Mind you, he is a present political office holder in Lagos, he has their mandate, he should face governance and bring dividend of democracy for them there not using the returns of their toil. My questions are simple and straightforward, who is Yayi's father, who is his mother? If the two are still alive where are they? If the are dead, where were they buried? Also, who are the immediate siblings of Yayi and what's their ancestral claim like? Why is it that we've never heard of the name Yayi or Adeola in our subconsciousness as a people not until after 2011? We are not fools, neither are we idiots. Our children will ask us what we did when the flagrant stupidity is about to be rub on our face.

But the Paramount ruler of Yewaland, Oba Olugbenle and some Obas believe he's from Yewa, what's your reaction to that?

Olu of Ilaro, is administratively the head of Obas in Yewaland, he cannot and should never dictate for other Obas, what they accord him is a mutual respect, the Oba that was recorded on video to establish and substantiate the senator's claim is not geographically a Yewa Oba, his domain is in Abeokuta North LG, so if Abepa of Joga-Orile denied this same senator sonship of his land, there's more to this thing than meet the eye. In case you are not aware, Yayi initially claimed Ishaga Orile in Abeokuta North(Ogun Central), later Joga Orile in Yewa North(Ogun West) and today he's claiming a suburb of Ilaro called Pahayi in Yewa South LG same in Ogun west, that's inconsistency and a moral show of shame,  I will mention 5 prominent  names in Ilaro and they will tell you they don't know him, the Otegbeyes, the Tellas, the Anisulowos, the Bajomos and many others.

Is this not another disunity from Yewa-Awori?

No, no and no. For the very first time we are so united across party lines, Ogun west prominent governorship aspirants in APC, PDP and whatever notable party are in good talks with each other, one of them Hon. Akinlade Abiodun staged his 50th birthday celebration some weeks ago and there was Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka, Chief Tolu Odebiyi and even Chief Kola Lawal. The Speaker who also has interest would have made it, but he was outside the country. That's the kind of unity in Yewaland at the moment. So we all should watch this Lagos senator and his intrigues so we can understand his plots to scuttle our chances again. But with God on our side, Olorun of ni fun se(God will not permit him).

How sure are you that 2019, a Yewa-Awori Governor will emerge?

I'm so sure, we are prepared like never before, and we are united like never before. Poverty, maltreatment, underdevelopment and marginalization are the things that have created a rallying point for us all and we now say with one voice that Ogun west can't just fold it arms again in 2019. Thank God the very powerful leader, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has echoed and reechoed it that a Yewa man must be Governor in 2019.