I read a piece which the former Chief Press Secretary to the defeated Governor Gboyega Oyetola, Ismail Omipidan said "How Oluomo Kolapo Alimi started off as a teacher and later read law and became a lawyer... became a Commissioner when all he wanted was to become a scribe of a local government..."
It is a collective insult to teaching profession for Omipidan to describe a teacher in a disparage manner. Are teachers not human being? Are they not the bedrock of all professions? Even Omipidan was a product of teachers. Why does Omipidan, a mere opportunist, so full of himself to the extent of insulting and underestimating teachers? Or is it his hatred for Oluomo Kolapo Alimi that has made him to lose all sense of rationality? Or is it his background as an Aboki boy that is affecting his good sense of reasoning?
It is important to let him know that, there is no profession that is better than another, every discipline has its own place. However, if it is hatred for Alimi that has beclouded Omipidan sense of reasoning, I don't think he can get solution to his problem.
Oluomo Kolapo Alimi is a destiny child for greatness, any team that has him has success and progress but a team that underestimate him will head to destruction. It is this reality that Oyetola and Omipidan failed to realize that eventually consumed them.
Omipidan should know that Alimi didn't get to where he is today by accident; it was due to his hardwork and commitment that paved way for him. Aregbesola, a visionary leader saw the uniqueness of Alimi and gave him what is due to him. Even if Alimi's ambition was to become a secretary of a Local Government as claimed by Mr Ismail Omipidan; is a scribe (Secretary to the Local Government) not a human being? Does that mean a scribe cannot rise more than that position? And if Kolapo Alimi was aspiring to become the scribe of Irepodun Local Government in 2010 and the leadership of the party with the Governor, appointed him as a Commissioner for Local Government, taking into consideration his capacities and qualities, is that a crime? That same Kolapo Alimi was among the only five Commissioners that were reappointed for second term by Aregbesola, when many others like Sunday Akere were dropped. Kolapo Alimi was never part of Oyetola's Government despite his contributions to the emergence of that Government because God did not want him to be part of a failed Government of Alhaji Oyetola. Today, Kolapo Alimi is the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, the Oluomo and the Balogun Musulumi of Erin-osun.
Meanwhile, former Speaker Najeem Salam started as councilor before he rose to the position of Osun House of Assembly Speaker. So what is the crime in starting little and getting to the top? It is clear that Omipidan is just a rabble rouser with no political value in Osun, an opportunist who contributed greatly to the failure of his Master.
Mastermind writes from Osogbo
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