Written by Gbenga Ogedengbe
Considering what my late mother once told me, people in power need help more than how common citizens do.
According to my mum, occupants of exalted public offices in Nigeria (such as governors and president) are like prisoners .
They cannot on their own go to the streets and find out what is really going on. Rather, for situation report, they rely on the few people whom fate had positioned with them in the corridor of power.
However, the internet operation of the contemporary world has diluted the gravity of that disadvantage by making it possible for every willing or able citizen to help the government and democracy without much restrictions.
So, as someone who had openly stood for Tinubu government in several television interviews in Ekiti State, I do not have any cause not to allow President Tinubu to know about the deadly attack currently being carried out against democracy by Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji in Ekiti State.
For the purpose of public enlightenment and message clarity, the Ekiti governorship election comes up next year, July 2026.
And, on the premise of that, the APC party has slated its governorship primary for October 27 of this year(2025).
Governorship primary election, being an in-house process, strictly for APC members alone, APC national. headquarters had to call for membership validation exercise.
As we speak here, the APC membership validation exercise, which is assumed to be ongoing, is nowhere to be found.
Governor Biodun Oyebanji has ghosted the entire process in secrecy where no one can ascertain who is validated and who is not validated.
How can a governor be the one to assemble some people inside the darkness with the aim of ensuring that the true feelings of the people do not count?
Certainly , anyone who trades in dust should also expect to be paid with stones.
Trusting God, thie ongoing clandestine compilation of fake APC delegates is another effort in futility.
Nevertheless, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is largely expected to rise to the occasion in defense of democracy. Governor Oyebanji must not be allowed to submit the names of his ADC members as the validated ADC delegates in Ekiti State.
