For the last two weeks I have been in the field in Osun state campaigning for my friend, brother and kinsman and my party's candidate in the governorship election,
Senator Iyiola Omisore. It has been a gruelling yet wonderful experience and I am very proud to have been part of the team and so deeply involved.
Love is beautiful but it can also ravage and destroy. It brings pleasure and it brings pain. It brings joy and it brings sorrow. It brings light and it brings darkness. It brings laughter and it brings tears. It brings peace and it brings turmoil. It brings tranquility and it brings turbulence. It brings serenity and it brings rage. It brings harmony and it brings fury. It brings construction and it brings destruction. It brings heaven and it brings hell. It brings loyalty and it brings betrayal.
Whoever it was that shot down Malaysian Airline flight MH 17 which was carrying innocent civilians through the skies of eastern Ukraine whilst on it's way from Amstersdam to Melbourne on 17 July 2014 has indulged in an act of exceptional barbarity.
Ayo mi, the one that brings me joy. The one whose beauty is stunning and relentless and who carries the glory of the sun and the moon.
The one that…
When the Lord establishes the reasons and creates the circumstances for you to move on from anyone that you were once close to and when He makes a way for a new beginning for you, never complain and never look back.
Don't be like Lot's wife lest you turn into a pillar of salt. Don't be like the children of Israel that were led by Moses into the desert only for them to begin to yearn and crave for the ''onions and garlic of Egypt'' where they had once been slaves.
Ever since I left Almajiri United they have been insulting `mecand getting their Haramite footsoldiers to attack me in the newspapers and on the social media with all manner of press statements, sponsored essays and paid adverts. If this is an attempt to intimidate me or discredit me I wish to assure them that it will not work and neither will I lose any sleep over it. As a matter of fact I am used to such shenanigans and better than them have tried in the last 24 years ever since I joined partisan politics.
On 22nd July 2014 General Muhammadu Buhari told The Nation Newspaper that "our country has gone through several rough patches, but never before have I seen a Nigerian President declare war on his own country as we are seeing now. Never before have I seen a Nigerian President deploy federal institutions in the service of partisanship as we are witnessing now. Never before have I seen a Nigerian President utilize the common wealth to subvert the system and punish the opposition, all in the name of politics. Our nation has suffered serious consequences in the past for egregious acts that are not even close to what we are seeing now. It is time to pull the brakes''.
I sit in my study silently: head-bowed, pensive and all alone on a pitch black, cold and wet December night sometime in the distant past. It is after midnight, the guard dogs are on the prowl and have long been released, the wind is blowing fiercely and it is pouring with rain outside.
I read the response of the APC through it's spokesman Lai Mohammed to my allegations and assertions in the interview that I gave to Channels TV on 30th June 2014. The said response appeared in a number of newspapers on 1st July 2014.
''We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us''- Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, United Nations General Assembly, 1972.
I read the second response of Lai Mohammed and the APC to my comments which appeared in today's newspapers. Does this so-called spokesman for Nigeria's opposition party have nothing better to do than to join issues with me on a daily basis?