ORCHESTRATED MEDIA WAR AGAINST GOVERNOR AIYEDATIWA WILL WITHER
By Com. Allen Sowore, Esq
Imagine being a towering political figure, allegedly sponsoring blackmail against your own state, driven by such an enormous ego and consuming ambition that you become willing to sacrifice the peace and progress of the very people you claim to represent.
Imagine further that, in the end, the legacy you leave behind is not one of statesmanship, but of political warfare, intellectual dereliction and despair.
Perhaps it is in this context that the assertion attributed to Bangambiki Habyarimana resonates: “The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show.”
I have argued elsewhere that one of the critical assignments before the APC Reconciliation Committee in Ondo State should be to trace the roots of this internal hostility. Who are these registered members of the party—some of whom are political appointees at other levels—who wake up every day to troll the Governor, regardless of what he does?
One is almost tempted to believe that an elaborate incentive structure exists somewhere: reward the best blackmailer, celebrate the most inventive troll, and applaud whoever can manufacture the loudest scandal. Sadly, these are not enemies from outside the gates. They are enemies within.
But there is a problem with this strategy: it is beginning to collapse under the weight of its own contradictions.
Crude, mendacious and increasingly unimaginative, the orchestrated media attacks against Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa are falling apart like a house of cards.
Yesterday was another major setback for the blackmail machinery. They chose the wrong strategy, relied on misinformation and, as usual, unleashed it through screaming headlines designed more to provoke outrage than to establish facts:
“Police Arrest Ondo Governor’s Aide, Wife Over Alleged Cocaine, Meth, Opium, Supporters Attack Officers.”
The report went even further, alleging that the Governor personally called a Divisional Police Officer.
Haba!
A Governor calling a DPO over such a matter? That allegation, by itself, raises more questions than it answers.
When a campaign of calumny becomes this desperate, one need not search too far to locate its theatre of operation. The fingerprints of the orchestrators are becoming increasingly difficult to conceal.
There is an old saying: “The witch cried last night; the child died today.” But in this instance, the cry is becoming louder while the supposed victim refuses to die.
The people are beginning to understand the game.
They are beginning to distinguish genuine public-interest criticism from politically motivated mischief. They are beginning to see through the profiteering, the manipulation and the carefully choreographed shenanigans masquerading as politics.
And that is why this campaign is beginning to resemble the grass: it blossoms in the morning and withers before evening.
Every new allegation is expected to be the final blow. Yet, when the dust settles, the Governor remains standing and the allegation begins to fade.
The truth may sometimes walk slowly, but it does not need propaganda to sustain it.
Governor Aiyedatiwa’s critics may continue to manufacture headlines, recycle accusations and unleash their media machinery. But a campaign built principally on calumny cannot sustain itself indefinitely.
They are gradually running out of stock.
And when the stock of blackmail is exhausted, what remains is the stark question every political actor must eventually confront:
What legacy are you building?
Because political ambition is temporary. Public office is temporary. Headlines are temporary.
But the memory of what one did—or failed to do—for one’s people has a much longer life.
Allen Sowore, Esq.
Special Adviser to the Governor
(Communication & Strategy)
September 16th, 2026
