William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet
IT is doubtful if the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the State of Osun would grasp the full import of the drift of an elevated discourse suggesting that names aren’t anything until you act your name. For instance, does being called Mr. Lion make you a fearsome beast like that creature if you are as timid as a little mouse? On the other hand, you could display all the characteristics of a rampaging king of the jungle even if you are addressed as Mr. Mouse.
PDP is finding it a tough knot to untie as it seeks fruitlessly to read a meaning into the recent happenings at newly created Amotekun, the security outfit put in place by the government of Gboyega Oyetola to tame crime and other social ills plaguing us in Osun.
Spokesman for the opposition party in Osun, Sunday Bisi, is full of fury at the governor’s well considered change of title of the head of Amotekun, Amitolu Shittu, from Director General to Field Commander. In an assemblage of bile, the PDP man writes: ‘’In a clandestine attempt to escape the hammer of the law, Governor Oyetola changed the nomenclature of Amitolu’s appointment from the widely reported DG…to Field Commander of Amotekun with a purported letter of appointment post-dated to 30th April, 2020, incidentally, the very day the Osun PDP served a pre-action notice on the government for the wrong action.’’
This is a malicious inference that the opposition, through its litigation, educated the governor to make a U-turn and do the right thing on the matter of a new name for Amitolu. Another mischief is the charge that Oyetola is playing ‘’dirty politics with the security of lives and citizens of Osun State’’, simply because he has decided to be pragmatic in calling the operational head of Amotekun by his battle name.
Pray, who is better poised for a sensitive appreciation of the nuances of securing society: the governor who has adroitly given Amitolu his professional title to enable him earn the full respect and honour the office deserves or the PDP folk confusing names and titles with performance. To be sure, the governor is better placed to be trusted with the onerous task of taking care of life and property of the great people of our beloved state, which today is being reckoned with as among the safest states in Nigeria.
And that presents a good case that Amotekun, by what name the government decides to call its head, is delivering on its constitutional brief. In these days of prevalent insecurity, the people of Osun need nothing less than a security apparatus acutely determined to protect them. They don’t need politicians given to jejune arguments over names and titles that don’t count for performance!
OYATOMI is the spokesperson of APC in the state of Osun
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