RE-EXAMINING APC’S OSUN POLITICS: WHY IFE’S QUESTIONS REMAIN UNANSWERED

 RE-EXAMINING APC’S OSUN POLITICS: WHY IFE’S QUESTIONS REMAIN UNANSWERED

By Oluwaseun Arewa



Agbogunleri Seun Michael’s rejoinder, despite its polished grammar and borrowed vocabulary of institutional discipline and strategic calculation, carefully avoids the real issue confronting APC in Ile-Ife and Osun State at large. It is long on theory, heavy on condescension, and painfully short on answers. Worse still, it reads like an overzealous defence brief written more to impress party gatekeepers than to engage the legitimate grievances of a politically conscious people.


More troubling is the unnecessary belligerence. Why must APC sympathizers pick fights with every citizen and why must they be combative with every Dick, Tom and Harry who raises questions? The original intervention was not addressed to foot soldiers or self-appointed defenders like Agbogunleri Seun Michael; it was directed at APC leadership in Ile-Ife and Osun State. So, instead of answering, you chose to intellectualize avoidance. Deflecting responsibility by attacking the messenger only deepens suspicion and confirms the very arrogance being questioned.


This is not about sentiment; it is about performance, justice and political logic. Before preaching discipline to Ife people, APC apologists must first confront the elephant in the room: APC has failed in Osun State, it failed electorally, it failed administratively and failed morally. A party that lost power, lost public trust and lost internal cohesion has no moral standing to lecture any bloc about patience or strategy. When a house is on fire, you don’t scold the occupants for shouting; you ask who set the fire.


The questions raised by Ife remain simple, plainly, legitimately and yet unanswered: Who among Ife sons offended Osun APC? Why were three credible and experienced Ife contenders denied the governorship space without transparent justification? What singular factor made Ambo more acceptable or more superior than all Ife aspirants combined? What exactly makes Oyebamiji more special than Ife sons? Is it education? Political depth? Party loyalty? Electoral or grassroots value? You avoided these questions completely. These are not emotional questions; they are logical demands for clarity.


Ife is not crying; Ife is calling out those who should know better. We are calling on APC leaders like Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, Senator Iyiola Omisore, Senator Babajide Omoworare, Hon. Dayo Eluyemi, Sooko Kemade Elugbaju, Hon. Jubril Olaiya, Baba Akantioke, Hon. Segun Fanibe, Hon. Wale Ojo, Barrister Allen Bada, Hon. Rotimi Makinde, Hon. Benjamin Adereti, Professor Taiwo Olaiya, Hon. Folorunso Bamisayemi, Hon. Jamiu Olawumi and many others. The question is simple, do they truly love Ife, or do they only love APC positions? Silence at this material time in the face of injustice is not strategy; it is complicity.


Nobody said loyalty equals ownership. That is a strawman argument. What is being questioned is fairness and consistency. When loyalty, competence, experience and grassroots strength repeatedly count for nothing, then the issue is no longer rules, it is selective application of rules. A party that weaponizes guidelines only against certain blocs cannot pretend to be neutral.


You claim context, yet you conveniently strip it of meaning. Yes, politics is dynamic but dynamics must still obey reason. If Ife leaders consistently mobilize, sacrifice and deliver, yet are perpetually sidelined, then people are entitled to ask questions. That is not victimhood but political accountability. Also, your call for restraint sounds noble but is deeply elitist. Grassroots politics does not grow through silence. It grows through debate, dissent and pressure. If APC leaders in Ife had spoken earlier and louder, perhaps these humiliations would not have become routine. Leadership is not silence, leadership is courage.


Before asking Ife to educate itself on why APC should be considered, perhaps you and those who sent you should first educate the people on why APC still deserves consideration at all given its record in Osun. This is not about hatred for APC, it is about APC’s failure to justify its relevance. Ife is not emotional, Ife is awakening and no amount of verbose rebuttals can substitute for answers. History does not remember those who defended failure with grammar. It remembers those who spoke truth to power. Anything else, indeed, is noise.

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