Sam Omatseye and his Piper of Bourdilon!

You can incentivize a lie to the point that the liar and his LovePeddler-son, start to smell like rose. Bola Tinubu is the godfather of did-information and Sam Omatseye has emerged as his fecal-brained son in an alliance induced with emolument. Alausa, seat of the Lagos State government has become the ATM for Tinubu - the man from Iragbiji, now lord of Lagos. While Omatseye was writing, "The Lord" of Lagos was busy securing the signatures of Local Government Chairmen to transfer N2 billion from the Local Government reserves. Omatseye might as well check this out through disaffected Chairmen or the Lagos State Accountant-General's office. For there is nothing the combination of money and lies cannot wrought, the imperial Bokassa of Bourdilon has managed to wield his terrible influence, not only on his party acolytes but also his agents of subterfuge in the press like Sam Omatseye. Money will procure lies and falsehood. Money will buy the gift wrap, often of the glittering and colorful type. Money will paint lies as rose petals - propaganda in beautiful prose. However, as the propaganda rises, our democracy languishes and we must respond.

Omatseye is a megaphone of pretentious activism, trapped in the vibration of Tinubu’s anal sphincters. His studied pomp is nothing but a loud flatulence wrapped at first in the folded petals of a rose. But a pig is still a pig, lipstick or not. When you read him, a beautiful rose is what you first encounter, but only from the distance. If you tell your soul to pause a while, to read and smell again, to give his packaged lies a closer scrutiny; that’s when, as they say, the shit hits the fan! The lies begin to fall apart, even as the lavendered stench of rot hits your nose.

Omatseye has singled Governor Amosun out for his funded assault on the APC Presidential rally in Abeokuta. He has tried to sell us a pile of Tinubu’s dung as rose, but we are too smart and too further ahead to buy the nonsense. Amosun was not the cause nor the one to blame. And if anything, the style and height of Amosun’s hat will teach us of a self-assured and progressive, visionary David who dares to stand out and take on the Goliath of his party.

Let it be clear that the gathering in Abeokuta was a political rally and Buhari was in attendance as a political candidate running for the office of President. At political rallies, the people meet their candidates, they chant, they sing, dance, feast, applaud and boo as free democracies permit. The speakers work the crowd with catchy slogans composed to offend and impress simultaneously. One remembers Neil Kinnock of the Labor party in the Uk, who declared at the national rally of the Labor party; ‘if the lady will not bend, she will be broken’ in a direct jab at the sitting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who, was also a candidate.

There was nothing untoward therefore in the nature of the Abeokuta rally. All was smooth and peachy until Tinubu’s agents - highly impulsive Rauf Aregbesola - ex governor of Osun State (who was not billed to speak at the event) and controversial party Chairman Adams Oshiomole - threw in the acid. Amosun did not engineer the rowdiness, neither did he act in any way to inflame the tension manufactured by Tinubu.

On his part, Sam Omatseye writes in streams of diarrheic verbosity; rose petals bellying a lie. His piece on the Ogun State Presidential rally, where all he does is nothing but a hatchet job on Governor Amosun is wrapped in the glitter of words. What a waste of skills and talent! Even the Academy of Letters award on his wall is fallen in shame. It would be easy to excuse Omatseye’s journalistic subterfuge, if it were not exceptionally moronic! Omatseye is a weasel; a genuflecting, body-scratching weasel whose head is stuck in a pit of dung! He has emerged as this political season’s howling, calculating opportunist with an immense appetite for manure! He is cheap and he is a cheat.

Like the sponsored propaganda he now peddles, Omatseye and his piper of Bourdilon should smell the coffee after the elections when Amosun would have emerged as a Senator from Ogun State, Akinlade as the Governor of Ogun state and Buhari as the second term President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria - QED!

- Atanda Odewole (Ojodu Abiodun)