Former Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Hazeem Gbolarumi has been asked to tell Nigerians the truth over last weekend’s alleged attack on his home and to give whatever he collected from his financiers to his few aggrieved loyalists, who now feel used and cheated.
This was as the controversial politician has been warned to stop trying to tarnish the image of Governor Seyi Makinde for personal and pecuniary gains.
A political group, the Ibadan Conscience Vanguard issued the warning to Gbolarumi on Sunday, following allegations that the governor might have sponsored political thugs against Gbolarumi, who is supporting the Nyesom Wike group of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
According to a statement made available to newsmen by the Coordinator of the group, Alhaji Akinde Abass, Gbolarumi’s antics and antecedents are well-known to the people of the state, hence the news of the attack didn’t come as a surprise to many people.
The group said there are different versions of the story on the attack and where it happened, while a version said some loyalists kicked against Gbolarumi’s alleged refusal to release the money he collected for the kangaroo local government congress of Wike’s PDP group, another version hurriedly put together tried to blame Governor Makinde.
It noted, however, that anyone who knows Gbolarumi well would know the true version, as the politician courts controversies and has always been a hard guy; refusing to obey the law as exemplified by his continued reference to himself to himself as a former deputy governor despite the court saying otherwise.
“Ogbe, fi ohun fun olohun is a popular Ifa verse and it is the advice we would like to give to Mr Hazeem Gbolarumi at this time. If, indeed, as a political contractor and aimless political jobber that he is, he has collected money from sponsors to destabilise the PDP in Oyo State, then we advise him to share same out to the few loyalists who are in bed with him on the shameless voyage.
“We learnt that the few loyalists felt used and cheated and they were the ones, who fought back on Satuday. Of course, anyone who knows Gbolarumi’s story and his past would know the kind of loyalists he can have. He should please settle the boys and let Oyo State residents continue to enjoy the peace and order they have become used to during Governor Makinde’s administration.
“We would also like to put it on notice that residents of Oyo State cannot be deceived by Gbolarumi and clowns like Diran Odeyemi from Osun State; they know their governor as a man of peace and hundreds of stage-managed attacks and lies packaged to make their sponsors believe that the billions they got to oppose Makinde are being put to good use cannot sway the people.
“While sympathising with Gbolarumi over the attack from those whose belief in violence echoes what he himself once was as loyal boy of Baba Adedibu, we would like to counsel him to stop courting Ipanle and unscrupulous characters as loyalists and if he finds it difficult to not be friends with hooligans, he should at least learn to give what belongs to Caesar to Caesar.
“This is why we are asking; was the attack stage-managed to get more money from the drunk Emperor or to convince the boys that money don loss? Mr Gbolarumi, please listen to Ifa; Ogbe, fi ohun fun olohun…”
