Osinbajo and the rope in his portmanteau, By Taiwo Olanegan

I persistently vouched for him despite overwhelming facts. I held on to the last edge of his sanity. But he fell to the old trick of the serpent. He succumbed to the temptation of the Garden of Aso Rock. Ambition is a drug. It makes you drudgery. But he is a professor of law. Millions of us would never be. So, he probably knows things we don’t know.

But he is not a Judas. No, he is not. Not yet. He definitely didn’t sign an I – would – not -contest – pact with Bola Tinubu. At 65, he is manly, and has a mind of his own. But check his portmanteau, Yemi Osibanjo has bought himself a rope. There is a rope in there, in his box. To climb, or to hang.

If he picks the form, and contests at the June primary, against Bola Tinubu, and he wins. Then he uses the rope to climb the tree of life.

But if he’s defeated, and Bola Tinubu wins. Well, Yemi would still need the rope, to climb that sycamore tree behind Bourdilon. To plead, “Bola the son of Tinubu, or Ahmed the son Sangodele, have mercy on me!”

See, if he loses the primary, and Bola Tinubu also loses, (both to Rotimi Amaechi), àkii-kàà…! It would have been better for Yemi Osinbajo not to be born in Southwest Nigeria, than for that to happen.

Because, the Oduduwa nation would hang the failure of Tinubu exclusively on the Osinbajos, forever and forever and forever. Songs would be sung of his treachery, and anthems would be composed about the ọdàlẹ. The betrayer.

And if by some God chance, Yemi Osinbajo picks the APC presidential ticket, then he MUST win the main election, lest he would still use that rope, in Judas Iscariot’s way. Because, if he loses to PDP, every Yoruba would still sigh: Oh! Bola Tinubu would have won!

l imagine the weight on Pastor Yemi and Dolapo his wife. The photograph loving pastor would age older in the next few weeks. That man had just picked a large boulder of granite and placed same on his balding head.

This man needs pity and prayers.