Wonder will never end with politicians. It is incredible but true that veteran People Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain/stalwart in Ikorodu division, Otunba Seye Ogunlewe, has bowed out of (PDP) to join the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Lagos State.
This veteran politician, who formed the Alliance for Democracy/Action Congress along with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Funsho Williams and others about twenty (20) years ago, suddenly left the party for reasons best known to him and joined the PDP.
While in PDP, he kept shooting high, rising in positions to become the Minister of Works and Housing, one of the most strategic portfolios in the federal and state government system. He also became an influential chieftain of the party under Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s regime and became a power broker.
No one, therefore, would have conceived that Ogunlewe, who fell out with Asiwaju Tinubu, will return to the same political umbrella, this time APC, to meet Asiwaju again.
But that is politics, you would say. Afterall, there are no permanent friends or enemies but permanent interests.
Oriwu Sun learnt that he alone did not joint but also his son, Moyosore, whom we learnt moved in first before his father Seye joined. The former PDP stalwart will now meet another veteran of the PDP, Bashorun Olorunfunmi, who is now an APC chieftain and member of the G57.
Both Ogunlewe and Bashorun came from the same constituency in Igbogbo but were said to have fallen apart at a stage but will now dine on the same political table with Tinubu and other APC members.
Oriwu Sun gathered that Ogunlewe has already met other prominent APC leaders in Igbogbo/Baiyeku constituency such as Chief Denrele Olowu, Asiwaju Bashorun, Asipa Kaoli Olusanya etc.
He was seen with these APC leaders in photos.
Already, political watchers are asking how these strange people sometimes regarded as arch enemies to one another lie on the same bed alongside Asiwaju Tinubu?
But the answer is not farfetched, after all, Obasanjo and Atiku Abubakar both sworn enemies at a time, are today in the same boat, while President Muhammadu Buhari and his former running mate, Tunde Bakare, are poles apart. That is politics for you.
No wonder many people do not trust any politician because they are unsteady. Many are quick to cite the political demons who cross carpeted from the PDP to the APC and ruined the 9th National Assembly and Buhari’s first term.
What about Musiliu Obanikoro, a onetime fierce enemy of Tinubu who became Nigerian Ambassador to Ghana and later, Minister of State for Defence under PDP? Has he not returned to APC while his son is currently elected as a member of the House of Representative under APC?
Who says Nigerian politics is not a mystery?