- By Dare Adeleke
The Yorubas are a deeply cultural and traditional people. The No. 1 ethos of the Yoruba race is respect for elders. We take pride in being called Omoluabi – people of honour, decency, and good upbringing.
This is precisely why Ayo Fayose remains an aberration, a man who has stubbornly refused to shed the skin of a ruffian, a street-corner thug who cannot respect those who dragged him out of the gutter and made him somebody.
There is hardly anyone who helped Ayo Fayose rise to the governorship of Ekiti State that he did not bite, betray, or disgrace.
From his own family members, his late sister Bimpe, to his brother Isaac, his other siblings and, most disturbing of all, his own mother.
A man who can attempt to evict his own mother from a house he built is nothing short of a bastard in spirit – a son without honour or shame.
These acts of appalling ingratitude, this inability to spare even the womb that carried him, reveal the true Ayo Fayose – cruel, remorseless, and rotten to the core.
His latest insult, directed at a man nearing 90 – a former General of the Nigerian Army, former Head of State, former President, and one of the architects of the democratic order Fayose once enjoyed, exposes just how far he has fallen into depraved callousness.
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is the very man who lifted Fayose from the obscurity of a paint shop to the heights of Ekiti governorship. Yet Fayose treats him with the same imbecilic contempt he reserves for everyone who ever helped lift him up.
His so-called “thank you letter” to Obasanjo is nothing but a representation of the rabid virus that has eaten into his brain cells, leaving his grey matter, decomposing by a rapidly deteriorating insanity.
When the decay in his head began, some mistook it for bravery and colourful boldness. They did not realise it was reckless stupidity wrapped in cheap swagger. The braggart has totally run amok.
Even at his now-infamous 65th birthday party, Chief Obasanjo warned him plainly about the gulf between courage and idiocy:
“There’s a difference between being courageous, being bold and being foolhardy… Humility is part of what is found with Omoluabi,” OBJ reminded him.
Yet, a Fayose who has now grown bigger than his breeches considered wise counsel from a respected elder an insult. Over fed on the crumbs he grovels on – like a filthy pig – from the tables of Governor Biodun Oyebanji and President Tinubu, for whom he has betrayed his party, the PDP – he struts like a fool boasting that tomorrow belongs to him, a spiritually vacant and imbecilic soul.
In Yoruba land, elders correct the erring young. Nobody is above admonition. No person, however highly placed, dares look an elder in the face, more so spit on him as Fayose just did to one of our greatest living icons.
It is an abomination and a confirmation of what I have always said: Fayose is a man of zero integrity, a perfidious character guided only by stomach infrastructure, contaminated by greed, and hedonistic gluttony.
Ayo Fayose is a clown of empty values, a vacant soul enslaved by Mammon, a traitor of his people, a man who should be rejected by every son and daughter of Yoruba land.
It is time President Tinubu stops enabling this strange, disruptive creature among us. Fayose has no electoral value to anybody. None. He cannot win his own ward in Ekiti – evidently, not even his mother would vote for him.
It is Fayose and his partner in political delinquency, Nyesom Wike, who belong in a zoo, barking and shrieking among their true peers, because they have proven repeatedly that they are hardly better than animals.
As Obasanjo rightly said, Fayose is simply not a good person.
I laughed when the empty barrel claimed that, when he dies, his body belongs to Ekiti State. No. Fayose’s body belongs to the evil forest – the only fitting resting place for a man who has lived as a despicable, leprous nuisance to Ekiti State.
Dare Adeleke writes from Ibadan, Oyo State.
