OPEN LETTER TO HON. TAOFIQ AND HON KILANI
I have become so worried at the ongoing attacks on each other on social media through your aides . It is a very disturbing trend which if not attended to will degenerate into a catastrophy.
As a major stakeholder in this party and administration, I owe it a responsibility to speak to you both. Here, I am going to be very blunt, not taking any side and talking to you both in the proverbs of our fathers and I hope the messages are diffused and acted upon very urgently and swiftly. I do not know the issue between you both and I do not care. The issue is “Our people matter and should be No1 on your scale of preference.” They supercede any personal issue.
It is said that “a house divided against itself cannot stand”. Going into the 2023 elections and beyond, if we are not careful and united, we will fail at the polls against a more united front. United we stand, divided we fall.
It is also said “No matter how painful one’s tommy is, he cannot rip it open with a knife, except he is a deranged fellow”. We must caution our followers and supporters not to overheat the polity by making unnecessary, unguarded, embarasing and inciting comments on social media. We are supposed to be very polished, civilised and enlightened people .
Also said is “When two elephants fight, it is the grasses they stand on that suffer.” The Paramount issue is security . Two heads they said are better than one. It is expected that you both put your heads together, get your acts together and save the people, my people, your people from continuous insecurity in the Ayere axis where I come from.
I hope my adages make sense; we must make hay while it’s yet day. We must consider our people first and as paramount. Sometimes when a husband and wife is set for duel and a wise one between them both considers the children and sheath his or her sword, in no distant time, the drums of war will cease and peace will return. Hon TAOFIQ and Kilani, sheath your swords and roll your sleeves.
Let us first pursue the eagle far from the chick, then when all is clear, we return home to spank the child .
Lastly, it is said that elders cannot be in the market and watch a baby’s head not well placed behind his mother’s back. Where are our elders? Where is Sen Smart and others? You have work to do. It is time to set up a reconciliatory team that won’t take sides and mince words.
Consider my words .
Save the people first.
Williams Charles Oluwatoyin
Lokoja.