I have offended a few people on this platform unjusitifiably. Each time I realize my mistake, I beg.
I truly beg.
I’d beg in the morning, beg in the afternoon and beg at night.
My disrespect was public.
Therefore, when I start this begging I do so in the same way, publicly. I will never hurt you publicly and start to crawl to you privately.
Ọmọde bú ìrókò lọrọọ Ayọ àti Baba.
Had Ayọ gone public with his apologies, on TV, radio, SM and all, even before approaching Baba to now seal the apology, òkò ọ̀rọ̀ tó gbọ́ on his birthday, his day of ẹ̀yẹ, would have been avoided.
You can’t disgrace and disrespect someone publicly, but go quietly and privately to beg for forgiveness.
Power is transient.
Let the powerful today know that there is a tomorrow.
Now I see why and how Nyesom and Wike could be best of friends. They both act like bulls in a China shop. They are both garrulous and disruptive, even as they assume they are bold and untouchable.
If I were Ayo Foyese and his wife, that day, after Baba had said his mind, I’d have prostrated and knelt down to publicly BEG him again and ask the other guests to help me beg him as well.
Also, I’d have called on Baba the next day to thank him for honoring the invite and begged him again.
Ayọ went overboard then.
Why he thought it was okay to so do remains a mystery to me.
Baba offered to return Ayos money, afterall, Aliko Dangote sent him a plane that brought him back home.
That is loaded.
Ayọ ló set ara ẹ up for that messing up, he didn’t do well at all then.
Look today how his brother is dragging him. He once dragged Baba, so, we can’t tell Isaac not to drag him.
All these background drama makes his request to be buried by the State, a profound one. Tí ìwọ bá ṣe rere thingy… Ara kí ó wà yà ọ. He already knows there’d be drama at his demise, hence the arrangement made with the State in advance.
When people in power or are rich misbehave, I blame the people around them, who shy from telling them the truth. My friends in the glare of the public who do or say inappropriate things, I correct privately. Thankfully, they listen.
The Lere chastising Yerima, and talking about respect etc now, was Aide to Ayọ in all the years he was publicly disrespecting Baba o.
When I critic people, it isn’t because I have a big mouth but more of, that they may become a better version of themselves, as the ones close to them have chosen to look the other way.
Power is transient.
Let the powerful today know that, there’s a tomorrow.
Who would have thought an Ayọ Fayose and wife, will humbly stand before a Baba Iyabo in public, and will not revolt to a “verbally whooping” like that?
Everyday for the tiff, one day for the owner. Ayos 65th birthday bash day was for Baba Iyabo, and he made a very good use of it.
I can only hope the couple learned a thing or two, because, I, Ajokeade Ọmọ-Ayinde learned a whole lot from that experience.
AYO FAYOSE AND THE LESSON OF LIFE
BY DOYINSOLA A ILORI
