OPINION: The Morning After: How the Gang-Up Against Gbemi Saraki Fell Like a Pack of Cards. By Rotimi Atere

Date: 2014-12-22

They all ganged up against this woman. First they refused her the plumb ministerial ticket despite an overwhelming majority of Kwarans then favoured her for the ministerial post, but they all rallied against her and picked a do-nothing Minister who later turned against them all.

Imagine if Oba, Ajadi, Bio, etc had not foolishly ditched Gbemi for Bola Shagaya's puppet then? But because of their selfishness and the promise of money and power, they all fell for Shagaya's antics. Now, Shagaya has shown them how not to be blind to ambition, how not to dig deep against your perceived enemy.

Imagine if they all had supported this innocent, hard-working woman for the ministerial post. Would Kwara have been this 'silent'? Wouldn't the Kwara State government have been smelling their 'yansh' by now? Would she have ever used Federal might against her own party men just like the minister did during the 1st primaries? Would she have tear-gassed her own party members like Shagaya and her puppet minister allegedly did?

Would Gbemi Saraki have contested for guber having been appointed the minister? The answer, I swear by my honour, is a NO! Wouldn't either Dele or Oba have become the guber candidate by now if they both had not ganged up against her ministerial choice? Imagine how many votes either Dele or Oba and even Ajadi would have been able to garner if Gbemi was not in that race. But for their hatred, they dug their own grave thinking they were digging the grave of the enemy! But in their blind hatred for the name 'GRS', they all forgot their thinking caps at home. Now, they will all live to suffer for it. What a pity!

Today, Gbemi Saraki has proven to be the true daughter of her father. She stood her ground during the nocturnal nomination of Minister Abu and also stood her ground against imposition and all that. To say the least, her outing at the primary was gallant, though she did not win, but all those in the know, including even her greatest critics would have told you she would have won the 1st botched primary. It is even more gallant that she accepted defeat and moved on with her life by even donating a million to the victims of Bode-Saadu fire disaster! It was when they realised that she would win that they cancelled that election.

By now, the gutless men must have realized how 'vegetative' they are in the feet of this gallant woman. By now, even Shagaya has seen how much Gbemi Saraki is worth politically. She will regret the day she parted with her, the day she scorned her. She would wish she never fought GRS in her life.

They did not want a woman, they did not want another Saraki, now they have gotten a disaster! They must all live with it. It is their cross, they must all be ready to carry it!

Unfortunately, it is too late for them all...2019 on my mind!

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Asa     Ayobola Ipinlaiye     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Gbugbu     Patience Jonathan     Sherif Shagaya     Olayinka Olaogun     Idowu Laro     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Haliru Dantoro     Kola Ologbondiyan     Yusuf Abubakar     Adijat Adebiyi     Iyabo Adewuyi     Isiaka Danmeromu     Apado     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Gobirawa     LABTOP     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Aliyu Sabi     Oba Of Jebba     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Ishaq Salman     Saadu Yusuf     Saduki Lafiagi     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Aso Ofi     Maimunat Oniyangi     IEDPU     Ahman Pategi University     Okiki     Peculiar Allowance     Wahab Issa     Awili Pedro     Irepodun     Olaosebikan     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Madawaki     Yahaya Dumoye     Lateef Alagbonsi     Chikanda     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Esinrogunjo     Omu-aran     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     ANCOPPS     Olabanji Orilonishe     Pakata Patriots     Ayinde Oyepitan     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Sam Onile     Tanke     Umar Saro     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Wakilin Mata Lafiagi     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Abubakar Atiku     Shoprite     SWAN     Taofik Abdulkareem     Yemi Sanni     Gobir     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Sanitation Exercise     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Moses Afolayan     SSUCOEN     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Funke Adedoyin     Erin-ile    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Elections     Aso-ofi     Omotoso     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Paul Olawoore     IEDPU     Raymond Olaitan     Ado Bayero     Funmi Salau     Saliu Oluwole     Shuaib Olarongbe     Omoniyi Ayinla     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Mohammed Ibrahim     Rafiu Olasile     Ishola Abdullahi     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Shola Odetundun     Olatunde Jare     Kwara 2015     Ibrahim Labaika     Kabir Shagaya     Donatus Ejidike     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Harrison Osauwagboe     Dunmade     Ubandoma     Kawu     Taofeeq Olateju     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Kassim Babamale     Plat Technologies     Earlyon Technologies     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Abdulwahab Ololele     Bibire Ajape     John Obuh     VADA     Jumoke F. Ajao     Ghali Alaaya     Kisra     Isau     Hamza Usman     Kale Belgore     Ayinde Oyepitan     Tafida Of Kaiama     MINILS     Gani Saadu     Olomu     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Radio SBS     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Tayo Awodiji     Okanlawon Musa     Kolawole Bashirat     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Sulu Gambari     Awodun     Saad Omo Iya     Niyi Osundare     FERMA     Opobiyi     Dankaka     Egbejila     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Saka Onimago     Alfa Belgore     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Kulende-UITH     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     SAPZ Project     Mahe Abdulkadir     Wahab Egbewole     Abdullahi Samari