For years and lately, a desperate syndicate of panic-stricken political infants and self-appointed DNA registrars in Ogun State have peddled a tired, xenophobic fairy tale: that Senator Solomon Adeola Olamilekan is a “Lagos-Ekiti stranger” with no traceable roots in Yewaland. Unable to match Yayi’s colossal grassroots machinery, his staggering legislative scorecard or his ironclad grip on the 2027 APC gubernatorial ticket, these trembling detractors retreated into the gutter of identity politics, begging for residential permits instead of engaging in a contest of ideas.
But on Saturday, September 12, 2026, that lazy, fraudulent “non-indigene” narrative was dragged to the cemetery and officially buried six feet deep. As the entire political and traditional elite of the Gateway State besieged Pahayi, Ilaro, to lay the Ogundimu/Ogunleye family patriarch, Pa Michael Adelani Ogundimu, to his final rest, the opposition’s favourite weapon of mass distraction was completely annihilated— leaving a pack of terrified gatekeepers frantically scrambling to audit a grave that just proved their worst nightmare: Yayi is home, he is a son of the soil, and he is absolutely unstoppable.
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Let us be completely unsparing here: the favourite pastime of these local political orphans has been playing amateur genealogists. They have weaponised the fact that Yayi achieved historic legislative feats in Lagos West as an excuse to try to exile him from his own ancestral home. “He cannot trace his lineage!” they yelled from their desolate campaign offices. “He is an imperialist invader from Lagos. No. Ekiti!” they scribbled in their poorly funded, tortuous script.
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