*A "VICTORY" THEY ARE AFRAID TO CELEBRATE....*

Isn't it very instructive as it is very funny?

Isn't it comedic if not tragic?

Isn't it telling enough for the untutored?

How else could this be interpreted?

How could a Party, in this case APC in Osun State, win such a *"humongous victory"* and its members are scared to death to celebrate?

Many of them are hiding in the crannies of their hotels, dens, camps and houses and unable to flood the streets to celebrate their so called victory.

I am reminded of King Pyrrus of Epirus (318 to 272 B.C.). He was a son of Achilles. He waged two wars against the Romans in 280 BC and 279 BC. Those two *victories* were so costly and devastating to the *Victor,* King Pyrrus, that his name had come to be associated with costly, deadly, severely consequential and vacuous victories. Historians characterize such victories as *pyrrhic.*

That is what has happened in Osun State. *A pyrrhic victory by the APC.*

A victory that could not be celebrated by the victors.

A victory so costly that even the victors became psychologically worse situated than the so called vanquished.

A victory that put the fear of unknown into the victors.

A victory that has forced on the State and its people, *a peace of the sepulchre.*

A victory that is forcing the *'victors"* to mourn rather than celebrate.

A victory that is evidently ephemeral in all ramifications.

A victory that is so hollow and shallow as it fills the victors with trepidation.

Even, the robbed, the dispossessed, the disenfranchised, the humiliated and the spirits of the murdered seem to be in a more celebrative mood than the victors.

They seem to be propelled by their confidence in the *eventual victory of GOOD over EVIL.*

The seem to be encouraged by the fact that *their cause and course are just; and that the just shall be vindicated.*

The robbed are watching.

The dispossessed are paying attention.

The disenfranchised are keeping vigil.

The unjustifiably humiliated are angry.

The wronged are waiting eagerly for the D -Day of real reckoning. How soon that Day would come, no one knows.

But it seems that both the perpetrators of the robbery and their victims seem to be in agreement and are aware that there would be consequences for what has happened.

Hmmmmmm!

When a victory like that of the APC in Osun State could not and would not be celebrated, it only means it is not a just and a deserved victory, but a fundamentally pyrrhic one.

So, we wait and watch as time tells.

*©Remi Oyeyemi*