“When brothers fight to death, Achebe warned, a stranger inherits their father’s estate. But the import of the immortal bard’s words seems to be lost on Osun gladiators; Gboyega Oyetola, the governor of Osun State, and Rauf Aregbesola, the immediate past governor and now Minister of Interior. Things seem to have fallen apart completely, and the falcon can no longer hear the falconer.” At dawn, just before the sun rose above the horizon, the attacks were launched with feral intensity. By the time dusk fell, not a few Ilorin…
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