Even those of us from the other three local governments that make up this federal constituency understand a timeless political truth: when a people suffer prolonged disappointment, justice demands that the wounded zone be allowed to produce the healer.
Irepodun has paid heavily for political experimentation that yielded little dividends for the masses. Therefore, allowing the zone to once again produce a more capable, visionary, and people-driven representative is not merely politics; it is an act of political restitution.
The outgoing occupant of the Green Chamber did not embody the yearnings of the people. Representation is not measured by noise in Abuja, flamboyance on billboards, or the gathering of political praise singers around corridors of power. True representation is measured by the smiles on the faces of the neglected, the hope rekindled in the hearts of the forgotten, and the visible impact on the soil from which the mandate was harvested.
Sadly, after over eight years in the Green Chamber, what remains are bitter questions, unfulfilled expectations, and a constituency still searching for the true meaning of representation.
History has a stubborn way of correcting political arrogance. And politics itself is governed by an eternal principle: no people can continue to ignore their electoral stronghold and still expect victory at the battlefield of general elections.
The largest voting strength within our federal constituency has always determined political victory. That is not sentiment; it is political arithmetic written repeatedly by history itself. Any party that toys with this reality merely prepares itself for electoral mourning.
Our great party, the PDP, must therefore rise above personal interests, manipulations, and narrow calculations. Victory can only return to our fold when credibility, competence, acceptability, and electoral value become the compass for decision-making.
Bamofin Titilope Akogun understands this reality. His courage to openly step forward from this politically strategic axis speaks volumes.
Beyond that, his political antecedents, grassroots connection, maturity, and public reputation place him in a strong position to confront the ugly political instability that has robbed our constituency of purposeful representation.
Power, they say, is not given to those who merely seek it loudly, but to those whom history has prepared for responsibility.
This moment calls for wisdom over sentiment, strategy over selfishness, and collective victory over individual ambition. Giving Bamofin Titilope Akogun the ticket will not only strengthen the PDP’s chances of reclaiming victory; it will restore hope to thousands who still believe politics should serve the people and not enslave them.
The masses are awake. The political wind is changing. And history is patiently waiting to record who stood with the people when it mattered most.
Chief Joshua Atofolaki writes from Oke Ero LGA.
