On-the-March-Again: Opeyemi Bamidele’s Reignites Governorship Ambition

Society Watch
A member of the Red Chamber, Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele is a vibrant and brilliant politician whose trajectory in the nation’s politics would make an interesting story.

For a fact, the Ekiti State-born politician received his political tutelage under the APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, having served as a Commissioner under him while he was governor of Lagos.

Much later, Tinubu ensured his victory in the race to the House of Representatives in 2011 under the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).

To say that Opeyemi also enjoyed a robust relationship with Tinubu until 2013 is to say the obvious. But he later literally played Oliver Twist, when he began to manifest traces of a man who was over-ambitious.

Many said he was under some illusion over the dummy sold to him by some sycophants or political hangers-on.
He dreamt of becoming the governor of Ekiti State, while Tinubu was interested in returning the then former governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

All entreaties to make him forego his political ambition had fallen on deaf ears. Determined to actualise his dream, he had dumped ACN and pitched his tent with the newly structured Labour Party.

But it turned out to be a wrong political step, which he later paid dearly for.
Because his ambition to be the number one citizen in the state did not see the light of day, he became a spoiler, as the party was polarised, thereby leading to the emergence of Ayo Fayose of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) as Governor of the state.

But like a prodigal son, he later crawled back to the All Progressives Congress (APC), a party he had so much vilified towards the build-up to the governorship election in the state, and he begged his political mentor and godfather, Tinubu.

He also worked hard for the emergence of governor Fayemi towards the build-up to his election in 2018.
Much later, Tinubu ensured his victory to the Senate in 2019, and he has since been once enjoying a robust relationship with the APC chieftain.

Meanwhile, Society Watch gathered that the graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University and University of Benin may have concluded to return to centre stage, as he is ready again to throw his hat into the ring for the number one job of Ekiti State.

MOB, as he is fondly called, has his gaze on the governorship seat of Ekiti State, even as the incumbent’s tenure is slated to come to an end next year.

It was gathered that the lawmaker is currently consulting top political gladiators far and wide in the state for his ambition.