Olayinka said George should take a rest and “stop
embarrassing himself and the Yoruba race by persistently dancing naked in the
market place of politics”.
In a statement he signed, Olayinka said, “For someone who
was Military Governor of the old Ondo State in 1988 (38 years ago), some level
of decorum and maturity is expected.
“But it is becoming an embarrassment the way a man like
Chief Bode George, who should be acting
like an elder statesman, is jumping from one television station to the other to
malign people who are young enough to be his children.”
Olayinka, who challenged Bode George to show what his
leadership of the PDP in Lagos State has produced, added that “Since 1999, he
has not won his polling unit for the PDP.”
“Unlike Lagos State, we have had PDP governors in Ogun,
Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo and Osun states. Methinks rather than doing ‘cho cho cho’ all
the time, Bode George needs to tell Nigerians why PDP has remained at the
sideline in the politics of Lagos State since 1999.”
Admonishing Bode George to begin to “act like an elder that
he is supposed to be,” Olayinka said;
“Even if a man was over spoilt, rascally, too playful and dull as a child, at
81, he should have outgrown those vices.”
He said; “In Yorubaland, it is a strict cultural and
traditional rule to respect elders. However, this respect is not automatic, it
is conditional and the major condition is that an elder must avoid
disrespecting himself.
“That is the reason it is said that ‘an elder who chooses to
tie corn to his waist and run around will have fowls chasing and making mockery
of him.
“Today, who among those eminent Nigerians who served as
Military Governors with Bode George between 1988 and 1990 are doing ‘political
we no go gree’ up and down, jumping from one media house to another to lie?
“Even in the PDP, who among those who served in the party’s
National Working Committee with him is talking anyhow in the media as he is
doing?”
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