“Perhaps, the first error was our overreliance
on two godfathers who were working at cross purposes, we were looking up to them
for our salvation and keeping faith in their projections unknown to us that the
hitherto strong and virile family ties that produced the victory at the two previous
elections had since been broken beyond any amicable repairs.”
By Dapo
Oke, FCAI
(In his article titled “MARGINALISATION OF OGUNWEST: REAL OR IMAGINED?”)
No doubt, ‘godfatherism’ has come to stay not
only in Nigerian politics but all over the world. Let’s come down home – Yewaland.
We failed in 2011, not because we were not prepared but because we paid little
attention to small things that matter one of which is unguided godfatherism -
as identified by Chief Dapo Oke.
