DAVIDO FILLS THE VOID
You see, this young man has emerged as the true face of this revolt. Don’t get me wrong. This movement is headless and that is why it will be very difficult to engage it. It is hydra-headed and as such cannot be decapitated with the traditional means. Before, IBB go don go NTA go say, ‘Don’t provoke an institution that has the monopoly of force’. Today he will just be looking helplessly because these ones don’t need a monopoly of any useless force, these ones are using monopoly of justice, fair play and total good for the common man. Na the monopoly that is giving the movement the legitimacy it currently enjoys. Mbok, don’t distract me abeg. So I had said this during the Osun elections where his uncle was contesting. As a student of politics – yes I have a master’s degree in Political Science o. So don’t be looking at me with one kind eye o and na 2:2 I get. Influence is very pervasive. Much more potent than constituted authority if deliberately parlayed. That is what Davido is carrying around. The mass voluntary corralling of a huge swath of a restive population is massive. We should be looking at this boy with one eye o. His privileged birth, his boldness, his confidence and the knowledge that ‘nothing can happen’ is making him a potent political force if well-managed. I watched him purportedly with the Inspector General of Police sans the youthful exuberance and the messianic disposition; the boy is showing that he could be a very powerful leader. I like him and can see his massive followership and his willingness to lead. I am watching very closely. Some mumu people will now say that Duke is saying Davido will be president now o. That is not what I am saying o. Why am I even bothered, nobody pay my school fees, what was I even trying to say again o? kai, I don confuse. You see life?
SANWO-OLU – WHAT MANNER OF MAN?
This paddy has a way of rising to the
occasion and that is quite impressive. The man no like calmness because na that time he will just be moving around like someone that take Andrew’s liver salt and be pointing at buildings everywhere. But when there is a crisis, the champion in him will just wake, he will just be moving around, assume the ‘Presidency’ and lead the nation in ways that are uncharacteristically ‘unNigerian’. The bobo is impressing us o. When COVID-19 came, it didn’t know what it would meet in Lagos. If it knew, it would have gone to drop in Fernando Po but it came to Lagos and Sanwo-Olu jumped in and showed it that amala and gbegiri can be a potent energy source for a governor. Today, as the #EndSars thing is consuming our political elite, he has emerged as the much-needed bridge between the vanguard of the movement and our hard-pressed leadership who really do not understand what is happening. He was first resisted by the movement but has gradually won their trust, setting up N200m fund, engaging on social media and joining the parades and speaking. Kai, I am loving this chap. He is truly a leader if only his handlers at Bourdilon will free him up. He just might be that midpoint leader that we need to gradually shift the ethos of power. Well done bro, please keep up the crisis leadership. God will bless you for me. I will soon invite you for lunch over a plate of well-made afang and fufu with periwinkle, but please don’t come with that your deputy that will be following you up and down before he come and finish the food o. Just one man dose that will be served. Let me know when you are ready. Well done, sir.
REVOLUTION TUTORIALS FOR OMOYELE SOWORE
I can say Sowore is my friend at least he used to be part of us at the Duke’s Summit. I was even chatting with him some minutes before he was snatched away and this threw me into a state of fear. I went into hiding inside Shomolu in case some overzealous DSS persons come go through his phone
and see that he was chatting with me o. The Duke cannot be arrested or kept anywhere for a second without afang and sex. I am no Mandela, not even in the least interested. This is a warning I am sending out there o. Well anyways, I have been trying to reach Sowore to ask him if he dey see how dem dey mobilize in the 21st-century. See how people use a strong ideology, leverage technology and push resources strategically and show love without calling people names and achieve better results. My brother has been going around painting bridges and shouting revolution with only four people joining the parade. Even of the four, two run away. That na old school campus revolution. Now we are facing the real REVOLUTION NOW. Let’s carry laptop and learn. Bro no vex o, couldn’t just avoid the yabis.
WIKE’S COMEDIC U-TURN
Please, this daddy should not just let me laugh abeg. I am really in no mood to laugh. Duchess has been ordered to go into a 45-day fast by one prophet o. Please, can’t this movement to end SARS be pushed towards some of these pastors? How can someone siddon for him shrine or altar come dey affect my time in the other room? As we speak, Duchess has moved to the boys’ quarter with Bible and candle and has been shouting ‘holy, holy. Me I dey room alone dey ask myself which kind life is this. I have asked for the man number and she has refused to give me. Once I have his picture, I will publish it so that you people can help me beg him to reduce the days of the fast before ‘conji’ kill me. Am I Buhari, am I the one that increase fuel, light and garri prices? Mbok, na Wike I want yab o before my own frustration enter the matter. The man first say he don ban all movements, those Port Harcourt boys na another level of ‘madness’ o. They came out naked. Come and see stark naked – but them thing small oh! I thought PH boys ‘carry’. Shame catch me for them sha. Anyways this na #EndSars no be that one we dey talk. When Wike see say they will not listen he begin to change mind. But when Buhari appoint that ‘fat’ woman INEC something Wike join movement o. Come and see him speaking the one that concern him. How can Buhari appoint his aide to INEC, he kept shouting. The people say SARS is killing them, baba is shouting Buhari, INEC. You see the disconnect? I pity am, he does not know what is happening. Let him continue.
DOLA IS GONE
My brother Dola Bamgboye passed on last week. This year has been crazy, very good people have gone and Dola has sadly made the list. He was a gentle giant. They said he slept and did not wake up. He was my man at MTN. Na him dey advise me, support me and play with me. I was not very close to him but the few times we met up he was genial; a friend of the people. He mixed with the high, mighty and the lowly. He was everything to everybody. Our last discussion was on my play, Aremu. He worked with me in designing it, giving very good advice and positioning it in such a way that it will be attractive to sponsors. He told me matter-of-factly that ‘MTN no go do am’ but make I help you so that others go do am. He was sweet, he was sweet o and this one pain me o; really pain me o. His cousin and my brother, Femi Omotosho, sent me a video of Dola dancing in church a few hours before he passed and that just wounded me. I cried o. I have been crying this year o. People have gone o. From Erelu to Aramide to Dola, people have gone o. Who remain o? This is why in my new play – Our Duke Has Gone Mad Again - I will be celebrating all those who have passed this year through a sweet video montage with beautiful actress Bikiya GrahamDouglas calling out their names and the audience in all white standing and bowing their heads, paying total respects and honour. God keep their souls but much more importantly, God protect the rest of us left behind. Dola!