REBELLION TO A TYRANT IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD

“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.” Apologies to Thomas Jefferson

When political overlords fail to understand the simple thesis of power, it becomes mandatory for philosopher kings to instruct them. Power, in its sincerest essence, is not dominion but records. It is not the service to one self, but the elevation of the collective.

Senator Jide Ipinshagba embodies the most recent and egregious manifestation of failed leadership in Ondo North Senatorial District. It is my sincere prayer that the conscientious people of the Ondo North senatorial district never again be subjected to such an animal clothed in human form.

Speaking with utmost candor, the people of Ondo North are in a state of profound disenchantment regarding the quality of representation that has superintended our affairs in recent years. While his predecessor was patently feckless, it must be admitted that they however facilitated a number of projects across the length and breadth of Ondo North Senatorial district, many of which, regrettably, remain incomplete to this day.

Under the administration of Senator Ajayi Boroffice, Ondo North witnessed few meaningful development. ICT Centres were established across the senatorial districts. Although not furnished with equipment. Secondary schools underwent renovation and some schools were built. Rural roads were constructed to ease the burden of our farmers. Market women, artisans, and youths received meaningful empowerment. I do not advance these facts as panegyric. I mention them as irrefutable evidence that he evaded the pettiness of provincialism, a vice which Senator Jide Ipinshagba has now enthroned as statecraft.

Under Senator Bode Olajumoke, Ondo North experienced and witnessed leadership centered on sincerity and vision. During his tenure in the Red Hallowed chamber, the Nigerian Navy Secondary School in Imeri, Ose Local Government, was established and it remains a functioning institution to this day. Farmers in Oka-Akoko, Oba, and across the four Akoko Local Governments were not forgotten. His administration was felt at the grassroots. I cite this not to praise, but to preserve historical memory.

Senator Jide Ipinshagba, in nearly four years, has offered the people nothing but vacuous rhetoric, ostentatious posturing, and a dangerous brand of provincialism. There are no visible, legacy projects to point to. The sum total of his representation is noise and the distribution of paltry palliatives parading as empowerment. The people of Ondo North have never lamented with such unison. This current dispensation remain, without reservation, as the most deteriorating this district has endured.

Leadership required vision, not vanity. In this epoch, the President of the Federal Republic has articulated policies designed to advance the grassroots and center the people in governance. Across the nation, senators of conscience are delivering these initiatives. Yet Senator Jide Ipinshagba has elected silliness, investing the people’s common wealth in the construction of private Investments. This is not only an act of political dementia, but a profanation of democracy.

Furthermore, governance is a sacred. It is a covenant agreement between the falcon and the falconer. When that sacred trust is breached with impunity, the people reserve the authority and democratic right to seek redress and amendment. The gentility of a lion must not be misconstrued as dogmatic behavior. It is, in fact, the quiet before the storm.

*Power is transient, records are permanent*
History will note down, leaders who mistook office for entitlement. They governed with rudeness, arrogance and left with odium. The path of Senator Ipinshagba mirrors this lamentable blueprint. To lead is to serve. To serve is to sacrifice. Anything short of this is a treachery.

Senator Jide Ipinshagba, the custodian of office without the burden of service, your days are  numbered in the Red chamber.
A savior has arise from Owo Local Government Area. I am aware that you, in your capacity as a seer, perceived this rising glory and dispatched three emissaries from Akoko to seek him out. But providence intervened. They did not return with tidings. Instead, they have chosen to shield him. And in no distant future, he shall dethrone you from that hallowed chamber, you shall worship him, and the people shall bask in an administration replete with prosperity, for his tenure shall be one of honey and divine blessing.

I implore you, do not persist in your present course. Continue along the path of doom. Your season of odium is here.
Thus says the Lord, our God, concerning Ondo North Senatorial District.