By Dayo Amusan
Playing political tin god or the godfather can be burdensome.
For one, you must have the resources (financial and human muscles) to play with. You must also have the contacts and network to tap into when the need arises.
Your tactical strategies must be superior to those of your opponents and most importantly, you must have the brute force to back up your operational moves.
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State surely has some of these traits but definitely, he is dispossessed of critical success factors as a *political godfather*.
Much as he tried on the single subject of installing his lackey as the next Governor of Ogun State through his Party (APC), the self styled “Emperor” has so far failed, thus demystifying his over bloated ego.
Running from pillar to pole to execute a single task is not in the nature of godfathers. They simply command and it is done in an Italian Mafia’s style.
So distressed and distraughted, the Governor who has tried all the tricks in his arsenal to upturn the position of his Party’s NWC including sponsoring of royal trips to Abuja, massive media attacks against his perceived enemies, State-wide protests of all sorts and most disturbingly, open blackmail of the President himself (his erstwhile mentor, friend and beneficiary), has restored to ingenue tactical summersaults (as last joker) to achieve his objective.
A Governor that was professing his undying love for the President who is the head of his political dynasty on one hand, is also playing anti politics by sponsoring a rival political Party, DPP, through his staunched aides.
The irony is very hard to reconcile and believe. He seems not to have sincere advisers and close friends who can call him to order.
Sources that claimed the Governor is rallying round his Presidency friends to thwart the position of the Party’s NWC in the coming week, might be building a false hope for him to finally dig his political grave. The plan was for him to commit so much political blunders in a way that his coffin could be nailed.
That he was given so much concessions through the acceptance of about 90% of his nominated list for the National Assembly was a gesture to exhaust his greediness and expose him to the world.
My source claimed that the much talked about a 3-man Committee by the President was to push him away from the seat of power because he was already becoming a pest and busybody with no electoral values.
The contention of those in the known is that almost 100% of the Ogun State’s stakeholders with interest in the project have lost faith in his leadership and he would only be an Alberto on the
President’s neck towards 2019 presidential election if he is not checkmated now. The need to tactically isolate him and be decisively dealt with like a political leprosy has been finalised.
Like it has been stated in another article, Governor Amosun is a political spent-force and he doesn’t possess the clout of any godfathers he is pretending to be.
SIA has been demystified, bruised and he is turning a desperate spoiler. He can’t just win!
Dayo Amusan (DA) writes from Sagamu