My Silence, My Concern, and My Hope - Lawrence Adesola Adebiyi. The State Coordinator, A - 330 group, Oyo State APC!
On the Pending Declaration of Colonel Adegbola as Oyo North Senatorial Candidate
I have been silent. But my silence should not be mistaken for indifference.
Those who know me understand that I do not speak carelessly on matters of consequence.
When something means everything to me, I choose my words with the same deliberateness that I have chosen my loyalty so carefully, consciously, and without apology.
This is one of those moments.
My Silence. I have watched. I have listened. I have prayed. While voices around me have grown loud, some in excitement, some in anxiety, and some in calculated mischief.
I chose the quiet of observation. Not because I have nothing to say, but because I understand that not every battle is won by the one who shouts first.
Colonel Adegbola is not a man who needs noise to validate his worth. And those of us who truly stand with him do not need to perform our loyalty in the marketplace.
Our loyalty was tested in the quiet seasons, not just in the moments when the cameras are watching.
So yes, I was silent. But behind that silence was a man fully awake.
My Concern
I will not pretend that everything is smooth.To do so would be dishonest, and this moment deserves honesty.
The delay in the formal declaration is not without its anxieties. In Nigerian politics, every day of uncertainty is an invitation for manipulation, for the infiltration of doubt, and for those who have never believed in this project to sharpen their knives in the dark. I am aware of this.
Every genuine supporter of Colonel Adegbola is aware of this.
My concern is not about the Colonel himself, his competence, his character, and his commitment to Oyo North are not in question, at least not in my heart.
My concern is about the processes and the powers that surround the process.
Senatorial tickets are not just won by merit in this country; they are sometimes ambushed by those who mistake access for entitlement and connections for mandate.
I am concerned that the voices of the grassroots, the market women, the farmers, the youth, the ordinary people of Oyo North who need representation that actually feels their hunger must not be drowned out by backroom arrangements that serve a few.
Colonel Adegbola deserves to emerge not as a compromise candidate, but as the undisputed, legitimate, and enthusiastically declared choice of our people. Nothing less is acceptable.
My Hope
And yet, I believe. I believe because I have seen what this man carries. I have seen the discipline of a man formed under pressure, the vision of a leader who thinks beyond the next election cycle, and the humility of someone who understands that power is for service, not for self.
I believe because Oyo North deserves better than it has received, and the time for that better has come.
I believe because Nigeria, for all her troubles, still has moments when the right thing happens, when the people's will, stubborn and patient, eventually breaks through the resistance of those who would suppress it.
So I say to every supporter reading this: do not lose your footing.
Do not be destabilised by rumour, rattled by delay, or recruited by those whose only agenda is confusion. Stand where you have always stood.
The declaration is pending, but our conviction is not.
I shall be silent no more. And I close with the words that carry me through every political season and every uncertain morning:
I believe all shall be well. Not as a passive wish, but as an active declaration of faith in the process, in the people of Oyo North, and in the emergence of Colonel Adegbola as the Senatorial Candidate this zone has long deserved.
I say All shall be well. And we shall work to make it so.
I write on behalf of all Supporters and Loyalists of Col. Gbenga ADEGBOLA,
Oyo North Senatorial Zone.
