January 30, (THEWILL) – The humbling of Senator Biodun Olujimi, the lawmaker representing Ekiti South Senatorial District and Minority Leader in the hallowed chamber under the Peoples Democratic Party, has been a long time coming.
Olujimi, who is one of the 14 contenders for the governorship position in Ekiti State and likes to be seen as the strong woman of Ekiti politics, as well as the one who determines what happens in the state politically, has been forced to swallow her pride and eat the humble pie. Discovering that she was not as powerful as she had believed herself to be and to avoid a disgrace of monumental proportions, she decided to withdraw from the governorship race to avoid being trounced.
She attributed her decision to step down from the race to the fact that the system had been compromised in favour of a particular aspirant, who was declared the winner of the governorship primary. The said aspirant, Bisi Kolawole, is the anointed candidate of former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, a PDP chieftain. Olujimi had allegedly thought that her new found friendship with Fayose, after years of feuding, would position her as his right-hand ‘man’ for her eventual emergence as the party’s candidate. She had thought that was the case and allegedly saw any other aspirant, especially the female ones who eyed the position, as a threat to her ambition. She particularly
declared war on one of the female aspirants, Princess Adekemi Adewunmi, widow of a former Chief of Air Staff, late Air Vice Marshal Ibrahim Alfa, and allegedly threatened to deal with her physically and spiritually. But it is now obvious that all that boasting that Ekiti State belongs to her and Fayose was only a figment of her imagination as the former governor only allowed her to enjoy the euphoria of being associated with him and never had any plan to include her in the scheme of things, not to talk of becoming his preferred governorship candidate.
Ivory Ukonu is a versatile journalist with many years of experience, with entertainment and society reporting as her area of core competence.
