WHEN “STRATEGY ” BECOMES “BETRAYAL...



We’ve seen this movie before. In 2011, it was called strategy when power-brokers clipped Dimeji Bankole at home while cheering David Mark in the Senate an insurance policy in case GEJ won. The same night GEJ took Lagos and Ogun, Bankole lost. Convenient, isn’t it?

When the speakership was zoned to the South-West, Mulikat Akande was floated to keep the balance. Who mobilised against their “own” again? The very voices now distributing purity badges and calling everyone else betrayers. Yesterday’s chess is today’s outrage.

Let’s stop pretending. What you bless as “grand strategy” when it favours your camp becomes “ethnic treachery” the moment others realign. The label changes; the logic doesn’t. Power is the constant. Memory is the casualty.

Now they scream because Aregbesola explores a northern alliance? Spare us the theatre. If coalition-building was genius in 2011, it can’t be a mortal sin in 2025. You can’t copyright realignment and criminalise it for rivals.

This is bigger than one man, one bloc, or one cycle. It’s about consistency. Either we believe in coalition politics or we don’t. Either we accept that interests evolve or we keep weaponising ethnicity to police other people’s choices.

If you want to talk loyalty, set rules that outlive your faction: transparent zoning, open caucuses, documented pledges, and consequences for breach—applied to everyone. Receipts over rumours. Institutions over idols.

And if you want to talk “Yoruba interest,” define it beyond thrones and titles: schools that work, hospitals that treat, jobs that pay, security that holds. Anything less is personal empire-building with an ethnic wrapper.

History is not an eraser; it’s a mirror. In 2011 you called it strategy. In 2025 you call it betrayal. The truth? It’s the same playbook only different players holding the pen. Choose principles, or keep chasing shadows.

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