Na Who Love Me I Go Love: Oshiomhole, Loyalty, and the Edo South Truth

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Na who love me I go love, hm
Na who love us we go love, hm
Who go believe you, when the whole world is calling you a liar-liar? Hm- Burna Boy

“Na who go dey by your side, if you waka through the fire-fire?”
The question opens like a drum roll. It is not just music. It is a test of loyalty, courage, and memory. As Burna Boy sings, love is not noise. Love is presence inside the fire.

That is where leadership lives.

Leadership is not the art of pleasing every crowd. It is the discipline of choosing fairness even when applause is selective. It is standing firm when the wind of social media blows hot takes and half-truths. It is knowing that even if you love everybody, everybody no go fit love you.

So when a manufactured controversy trends, claiming that Adams Oshiomhole is “fighting Edo South” or “disenfranchising” anyone from federal opportunities, the record must speak louder than the rumor.

Let us speak of love as action.

When Oshiomhole chose to hand over power, he handed it to Edo South. Not under pressure. Not by accident. By conviction. And when that administration lost rhythm, he did something rare in Nigerian politics: he acknowledged the misstep and openly rooted for another Edo South son to take the baton. That is not sectional politics. That is leadership correcting itself in public.

As governor, Oshiomhole’s footprint in Edo South was not cosmetic. Roads, schools, urban renewal, and one critical intervention that Benin people still talk about: the storm-water master plan. Over 70 percent completed. Designed to end the yearly flooding that swallowed streets and livelihoods. A long-term solution, not a seasonal patch. That project did not fail the people. It was halted by a successor from the same Edo South, Godwin Obaseki. History is stubborn like that. It remembers who started, who stopped, and who benefited.

As an APC leader , Oshiomhole’s influence has continued to open doors across zones, including Edo South. Appointments, visibility, political leverage, and access did not vanish because of geography. They followed trust, capacity, and commitment to party growth.

A life lived to impress everyone quickly loses direction. The reality is that in politics, certain actors benefit from division, elevate grievance as a tactic, and allow volume to substitute for evidence.

Beyond governance, the relationship between Adams Oshiomhole and his deputy, Pius Odubu, remains one of the quiet proofs of sincere leadership. Odubu, an Edo South son, was not a deputy in name alone but a trusted partner through eight intense years of governance.

There were no public fallouts, no cold wars, no post-office bitterness. More importantly, that bond did not end with power. Till today, the friendship remains firm, respectful, and intact, showing that their alliance was built on trust and mutual respect, not convenience or ambition. In a political culture where partnerships often collapse once offices change hands, that continuity speaks louder than any propaganda.

Even though you love everybody, everybody no go fit love you.
But history, when it finally clears its throat, will say this: Adams Oshiomhole did not govern by compass of ethnicity. He governed by compass of duty. He handed over to Edo South. He defended Edo South. He invested in Edo South.

Love, in leadership, is not a slogan. It is the courage to stand in the fire with your people, even when the crowd outside is chanting something else.

Osigwe Omo-Ikirodah is the Principal and CEO of Bush Radio Academy.