We read with dismay and total shock the the unwise pronouncements of Senator Seye Ogunlewe in an interview with a newspaper when he virtually derided his own people by defending Mr Nyesom Wike, the Rivers State Governor, insisting that Wike should not apologise to the Yoruba people.
Wike had publicly demeaned our people and our leaders as symbols of failure !
Even when all leaders in the Yoruba nation within the PDP fold had denounced Wike’s utterances as crude, uncouth, virtually uncivil and primitive, Ogunlewe, in his characteristic manner of an unstable and mischievous mode has aligned himself with the traducer of his own people. What a great shame! What a very disgraceful aberration!
Is Ogunlewe happy that our people are being lampooned and dishonored in the market square? A true born Yoruba person will never partake in this crass idiocy.
Former Governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, even rose above partisan politics to demonstrate his anger against Wike’s immoral pronouncements. That is the way it should be !
Ogunlewe is a total disappointment to the Yorubaland. He is a turncoat and a failed leader. He had behaved like an untidy, raggedy traitor to our people.
We at the League of Yoruba Professionals in PDP demand an immediate retraction of the reckless defence of Wike by Ogunlewe and at once Ogunlewe should tender a public apology to our people.
⁃Dr Adegoke Adaranijo is the Chairman of The League of Yoruba Professionals in PDP
