By Wale Ojo-Lanre
Yes, stoned! That’s the only fitting punishment for Senator Fatai Buhari and Hon. O’Shine Oyedeji—for committing the most unpardonable crime in Nigerian politics: working together across party lines for the benefit of their people!
What effrontery! What insolence! What political heresy!
Senator Fatai Buhari, a card-carrying member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was elected to represent Oyo North Senatorial District. On the other hand, Alhaji O’Shine Oyedeji of the opposing People’s Democratic Party (PDP) represents the Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives. Yet these two, instead of being sworn enemies, dared to unite and co-sponsor an initiative to bring a Federal University of Agriculture and Technology to Oke-Ogun.
Iru ere ki laja mba ekun se? What kind of madness is this? Have they no shame?
Where is the ideological warfare? Where is the healthy political sabotage? Have they forgotten the sacred tradition of Nigerian politics—that members of opposing parties must fight themselves to a standstill, even if it means burning their communities to the ground?
How dare they put the interest of the people above the interest of their parties? This is pure anti-party behavior—the kind that should earn one immediate expulsion, or better still, a public stoning at Soun Hall ,Ogbomoso.
We must understand that loyalty to party is greater than loyalty to progress. Political ideology in Nigeria is not about development or policy—it’s about lines in the sand, division, and war cries. Anything short of that is betrayal. To work together, even for the good of the people, is a treasonable felony against the spirit of our politics.
Let me say it again for emphasis: these two men committed political harakiri. They defiled the age-old doctrine of perpetual opposition. They violated the unspoken rule that no APC man must smile with a PDP man, let alone sit in a room with him to develop anything other than scandal.
And what is most insulting is that they did it with pride—flaunting their act of cooperation across the media space as though they had done something honorable. Imagine them smiling together in press photos, arms locked in camaraderie, championing a university project for their people. Shameful!
Have they forgotten that politics in Nigeria is not about the people? That your first allegiance is to the party’s supremacy—even when your community lies in ruins?
One of them should have stood up to sabotage the plan. One of them should have filed a motion against the bill. At the very least, a sponsored protest should have been arranged against such unity of purpose. Instead, these two disgraceful sons of Oyo lubricated the same political engine and drove development home together.
Indeed, they should be stoned—if only to serve as a detergent against further ideological pollution in the National Assembly.
And don’t mistake me—I won’t join you in the stoning. I only supply the stones.
May posterity judge them kindly… but let party loyalists judge them now, harshly and without mercy.
For me ,Wale Ojo- Lanre Esq, I commend this rare political sagacity and diligently urged other elected political personages at the National Assembly to copy this .
God bless the two great souls
Signed
Wale Ojo- Lanre Esq
Usi Ekiti
