Makinde: Diran Odeyemi bombs Olopoeyan following remarks on’ Amutajero’

The immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Diran Odeyemi has replied Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, Alhaji Adebisi Olopoeyan over his recent comment on Wednesday. 

Olopoeyan had in a statement told supporters of Governor Seyi Makinde to tell him the true situation of things in the party.

Mouthpiece NGR understands that Olopoeyan issued this statement after the immediate past Deputy National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Diran Odeyemi had on Monday said it is needless for any member of the party to contest against Makinde in 2023.

Odeyemi said if someone is thinking Seyi Makinde will lose a primary and governorship election in Oyo State, then such person is making a big mistake.

Recalls that Makinde won the gubernatorial election on the platform of PDP in 2019. But, Olopoeyan while reacting, said that people like Odeyemi should not deceive the Governor that he will win the election again in 2023.

Olopoeyan noted that being an incumbent governor is not an automatic ticket to winning the election for the second time.

He warned Odeyemi and his colleagues to stop playing to the gallery. The PDP chieftain advised those who are close to the governor to tell him the truth.

Olopoeyan said that Odeyemi should remember that Alao-Akala was a sitting governor when he lost the 2011 gubernatorial election.

He added that late Abiola Ajimobi as a sitting governor also lost in the senatorial election in 2019.

Olopoeyan said, “So, all that Diran Odeyemi said on the radio was just an attempt to hide the truth from a person that needed it. It is high time people like Diran Odeyemi, who are close to Governor Seyi Makinde to stop playing to the gallery.

“They need to start telling Governor Seyi Makinde the truth, not just be uttering all the governor wants to hear all the time.

Reacting to his statement, Odeyemi in a lengthy article personally signed by him and made available to Mouthpiece NGR on Saturday described Olopoeyan as an immature, crude and shallow for rushing to media without a simple telephone call to him for clarity. 

The statement read: “I read your response to my Radio Interview at Amutajero last week. I was busy in Osun but now less busy, hence this response.”

“I stand by all what I said in that interview without apology to you or anybody. It is my personal opinion which I careless if does not meet your expectations.”

“When Gov Ayo Fayose expressed a similar statement of fact in his speech before the Southwest congress, you are one of the people that grumbled and condemned him but went missing during voting. I am therefore not surprised but wonder about your audacity to pick on me.”

“A simple telephone call to me (you have my numbers) for clarity would have been ideal but in your usual character, you saw an opportunity to voice out your frustration against the positive mention of the name of your enemy- Gov Seyi Makinde.”

“I know your level of comprehension, I am aware of your limitations and can also understand your frustrations.”

“The Governor is your enemy and whoever did not agree or join you in condemning him is also your enemy by extension.”

“This idea and line of thinking is too shallow, immature and crude. Gov Makinde is not my friend either but I, like many other committed and enlightened politicians are matured in disagreement with him.”

“I wonder why you chose me as another of your object for cheap publicity. I know your style. Rushing to the press in your imagination throws you up politically and has become your marketing strategy towards getting recognition and patronages.”

“This style is ok in as much as it remains your procedure for a meal. What is wrong is choosing me as another of your opportunity for cheap bravado. I am up to the task of putting you at your level.”

“At the risk of sounding immodest, I am not in your class and so can never be who you are. I am sophisticated urbane and educated the qualities that you lack.”

“These standards you lack are the reason you should not have expected me to say what you will fancy or lend credence to your unintelligent ways in action and utterances.”

“This is not a pride but a statement of fact m, I repeat, we are not on the same level.”

“Yes, I understand you are arms-in-glove with Gov Seyi Makinde which is not unexpected in politics but assuming everybody should join you in your archaic manner of fighting him is too shallow a thought.”

“Your personal reasons for choosing him as your enemy is not the same reason why some of us don’t fancy his inability as a leader to embrace all.”

“He may not be who we expected as a political head but God and destiny as made him our leader which is a fact that is against your comprehension and understanding. You obviously can not give what you don’t possess, you are deficient in exposure. 

Must we allow our sense of reasoning to becloud our sense of judgment? No, I don’t think it should. 

While we are in disagreement  with Gov Seyi Makinde’s political style, he remains our symbol and emblem. His modest achievements in governance is our joint claim and collective gain as members of PDP that wants to remain in office. 

“Assuming we don’t want him as our symbol beyond 2023, must we brake the pot with which we will eventually need to produce another soup? 

Bisi, stop playing God, reconsider your ways, politics is never a war, even in wars, there are rules of engagement, be fair,  just and rational. The Holy Books teaches us not to sin in anger. “If you become angry, do not let your anger lead you into sin, and do not stay angry all day.”

Ephesians 4:26 GNT

We should always give room for jaw-jaw and a round table talk for settlement.

“While you exhibit your limitations and level of intelligence, some of us are refined, cultured, sensible and strategic in battle.”

While Governor Seyi Makinde may not be who we expected, no matter the level of dislike for his person and style, it will be unfair to discredit, insult and bring him down at any given opportunity especially in the media which has become your trademark. 

He is not clueless in governance but in my estimation is limited in the political methodology of winning over his perceived enemies. A committed party man will not disparage or belittle him and his office in anger. Subtle advice and constant gentle approach I believe is a better approach for us that are determined to stay put in PDP. 

I honestly can not play dirty as an ex-National Officer compared to someone who has never won any election as low as ward level. 

My Dear Bisi, It is obvious that with your recent visit to Tinubu, garrulous attacks on the party and romance with other political parties, only what to destroy before you take your exit. 

Taking pictures besides the Jeep of Kwankawaso or displaying an handshake with Sen David Mark and other gimmicks of yours are only for the gullible, they are old-fashioned and display of a nonentity, you are marketing your product and possibly looking for customers. Please leave quietly and stop being a pest. Political doors have entrances and exits, stop making noise. 

Seek for your customers elsewhere and keep enjoying  the credulous  ones in your enclave. Stop claiming what and who you are not, you are overpricing yourself. O to ge. 

It is obvious that you are being ignored rather than be subjected to a party discipline. You are lucky because it can only happen in PDP. In other political parties, you would have been reduced to your size as a non-existent. 

Perhaps PDP believes in the Yorubaland wisdom. When you ignored, it has a meaning.  It is simply interpreted and likened to a dog that is hangry and thus bark especially when he is hungry. 

In summary, you are irrational and irrelevant.   

We are taught never to dig too deep a political grave. We are also lectured that no misunderstanding is beyond settlement which is why political battle is never a war of battle to finish. 

We understand crisis to be a necessary ingredient in politics, the art of managing it is for the wise and not for fools. 

In your estimation, what you believe is giving you political recognition via the media  is seen in the public domain as notoriety,  peripheral and a needed nuisance to fill-in a funny gap in politics. 

Your main problem is choosing a character or a distinct identity. While you love to be feared as a terror competing with the leadership of NURTW (even when you don’t own a transport) you also want to be recognised as Adedibu reincarnate whereas you lack the smallest of prerequisite requirements for both characters. You are a coward and a noise maker. 

The formula of mixing these identities and your efforts to be their carbon copy for political recognition is your dilemma. You lack tact and you are insensitive. 

If in your thought, rushing to the press on faulty arguments throws you up politically each time you open your mouth, I want to assure you that it is exposing all what you lack in trainings. Learn to be civil and reasonable, it has its gains. 

Rather than read these upside down, I want to advise that you get a good interpreter that will tell you that all what I wrote is an advise, the way forward, a little knock for being naught and not a total condemnation. You remain my friend. I am however ready and willing to take up your challenge in any ways.

I am yours sincerely 

Prince Diran Odeyemi.