Call Dapo Abiodun, His Marauding Beasts To Order Showunmi Tells Nuhu Ribadu

The Peoples Democratic Party Governorship Candidate in the 2023 election, who is also the Otunba Fiwagboye of Idoani, Otunba Segun Showunmi has appealled to the newly appointed National Security Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to help tame the Governor of Ogun state and his marauding beasts who assaulted him some weeks ago at the premises of the Election Petition Tribunal seating in Abeokuta.

Segun Showunmi made this call in his congratulatory message to Mallam Nuhu Ribadu through his media office in Abeokuta.

In the statement made available to newsmen, the social commentator who has contributed greatly to peaceful coexistence in Nigeria said that it is an embarrassing event that hoodlums will come out in a public space and unleash mayhem on any law abiding citizen chanting that the Governor sent them and such Governor will fail to clear his name.

Showunmi applauded Mallam Nuhu Riibadu for his landmark achievements in the past and expressed his optimism that the nation will witness a drastic improvement under the new Security Adviser.

Although, there have been calls from different quarters pacifying Otunba Showunmi to overlook the ugly incident, Segun Showunmi vehemently objected that Ogun state is too civilized to be held by the jugular by just one selected Governor.

He entreated Mallam Nuhu Ribadu that Nigerians had paid so much price for democracy to thrive, therefore any move to strangulate human rights by any governor is capable of fomenting trouble and this should not be allowed.

Below is the full statement by Otunba Segun Showunm

Malam Nuhu Ribadu NSA

Dear Malam, I wish to congratulate you on your appointment as special adviser on security, I have known you for years and you are one of the very few public officers in Nigeria I trust and have faith in his ability to do the job without let. 

I write you to bring to your notice a major security challenge I have, a type I have never experienced in over 30 years of speaking truth to power in this country. 

It is about the government of Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, he has elevated high-level thuggery and unacceptable brigandage to such an unacceptable level, the high point of it is that a few weeks ago, I was violently attacked within the precinct of the Ogun state high court while simply minding my business, much more embarrassing was that it was in full view of the Nigeria police. 

The images are all over the media. 

As if to lend credence to this criminality the chief security officer of the state Dapo Abiodun in the most uncivilized manner has pretended that nothing happened.

Sir, I write you so that you may know that this type of activity is what lead others to recruit their militia which metamorphosed into the crisis we are just about now stemming in the northeast, it is my view that light arms and soldiers of fortunes are all over the place within our sub-region. 

Please ask for a detailed explanation of this event sir and send a very clear warning to politicians especially Governor Dapo Abiodun that this rubbish will not be tolerated, while he was busy running deals in Nigeria, men like I were busy looking for how to get Nigeria to work, you may ask Mr President, that he may tell you that this democracy was fought and won at great personal act of sacrifice. 

I plead with you to please look into this for it is an ill wind that harbours no good.

Congratulations sir and be assured of my service at the drop of a hat. You are not like most of them as such a lot of us are praying along with you and wishing you success. 

Otunba Segun Showunmi,
Abeokuta, Ogun State.
15th June 2023