Ah, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) never ceases to amazingly entertain the good people of Ogun State. Just when you think their ‘political relevance’ has safely expired, they pull a rabbit out of a hat—or, in this case, a heavily recycled essay out of a time capsule. Enter ex-finance commissioner, Kehinde Sogunle and his grand manifesto, “Reclaiming Ogun State’s Sovereign Blueprint: The PDP template.” It is an exquisite piece of historical fiction. Reading it feels like being aggressively scolded by a museum curator who is deeply upset that someone wants to replace a broken, horse-drawn carriage with a bullet train. Apparently, in the PDP’s world, progress is a dirty word and moving forward is a structural sin.
The core grievance of Sogunle’s treatise is as hilarious as it is predictable. He is absolutely terrified of the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, popularly called Yayi, and his high-octane “ITESIWAJU” campaign. Sogunle laments that Yayi’s platform treats Ogun State like an “administrative backwater requiring an imported governance model to achieve modernisation”. Heaven forbid! Imagine wanting to import high tax revenues, structured infrastructure development and corporate investment into the Gateway State. The horror!
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What makes Sogunle’s critique truly delicious, however, is the author’s own resume. He writes with the lofty authority of a grand economic architect, conveniently hoping we all forget his time as Ogun State’s former commissioner for finance under the PDP. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are being lectured on fiscal sovereignty by a man who steered the state’s chequebook during an era when financial masterclasses consisted of racking up debts, struggling to pay basic overheads, and treating internally generated revenue like a rare, endangered species. Watching a former PDP finance chief critique Senator Yayi—a seasoned chartered accountant and the current Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee—on economic management is like a backyard bicycle “repairer” struggling to explain aerodynamics to a rocket scientist.
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