Just suddenly, all is quiet in the social media on the Obidient front. It was after Julius Abure, the turbulent Labour Party Leader, took off the gloves and delivered an uppercut. It was in the form of revelation. One, that Pastor Itua Ighodalo was – or is he still? – a signatory to the account of LP or Elupee. And guess the other signatory. Some in the social media are calling her hushmummy. But that may not be fair. They need more imagination. Diezani will be jealous. They need something original for Aisha. Abure said both Aisha Yesufu and Itua Ighodalo signed the comings and goings of the Eluppee purse. We are not talking no-shishi here. A lot of chin chin. We are talking billions of Naira. Not one or two billion, but a purse in the neighbourhood of N12 billion. And not Naira alone. We know Elupee is international, not just because Pitobi had offshore accounts when he was governor and kept money aside for himself and family. After all, a governor is worthy of his election.
Funny, that Aisha now recognizes the courts. Was she not the one that gave a vote of no confidence in the judiciary when the Nigerian people outvoted Elupee? Now the courts are important. She said those who are aggrieved should go to court. That is, those not happy with her position on how the money was spent in those giddy days of LP ferment. We want transparency as clear as a person without a hood. We cannot hide accounting inside Hijab. Let’s take apart the hijab from the signature.
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Again, Pastor Ighodalo has an interesting story. He was angry with President Tinubu, then candidate, for running for the election. Ighodalo was for Osinbajo then before the primary. When his pastor friend lost, he pirouetted to Pitobi, the closest he could to a pastor. So smooth was he that he rose to the sumptuous reaches of accounting. Was this not the same Pastor Ighodalo, who, before the last political dispensation, could not take his feet out of the gates of Bourdillon? It’s like the character in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night who said “make me a willow cabin at your gate,” signifying permanence. I still wonder what is going on in this man’s mind about why he made a U-turn on his supposed friend without decency. He could not blend empathy into evidence and experience into testimony. I thought a man who saw Bourdillon in its interior would have acted as a good witness. He did not have to support him but he should have made a case. He just looked the other way and openly dismissed his ambition. He should have articulated what he knew and the whys and wherefores of his new course. Most people, given their past association, would not turn it into an open antagonism. You would think he would be one of those to have cleared the air when the Christian elite launched a calvary against the Muslim-Muslim ticket. But he carried Judas’ halo. If it was not fair, he was not alone in this sordid fare.
But more perplexing is that the Obidients were angry over the money the lawmakers spent on cars and few acts of laxity by some persons in the government, and all of them do not amount to the money at stake in the Elupee scandal. That is, N12 billion and over half a billion dollars. If this is not hypocrisy, I wonder what it is. Obidients have not called for a proper audit of the account, and this was a barn they filled with their own sweat, I suppose. They don’t even want to know who is feeding on the harvest. Charity should begin at home.
