Ify Aniebo, wife of Labour Party’s gubernatorial candidate, postured as an activist and anti-corruption advocate, but days after her father’s dark legacies made the headlines, including his role in the violence and butchery of Abacha’s dictatorship, she has chosen the complicity of silence, opting instead to blame the opposition for unearthing the uncomfortable facts.
Reports of how Aniebo stole N113 million from the coffers of the Kogi state government while in power recently awash the media, with many startled and disturbed to find out he is the father of Ify.
It was also uncovered that Aniebo was a close ally to General Sanni Abacha, a violent military administrator infamous for the 1993 military coup.
The wife of the LP’s guber candidate, has before now, been known to be vocal on political issues so much so those that come close to home.
In the cognizance of this accustomed pattern from the daughter of the infamous colonial administrator, it begs more questions the unusual silence of Ify on the dark revelations uncovered of her father.
Despite the flurry of social media reactions, expressing shock and repulse towards the personality of Aniebo which has spurned insinuations that Ify could possess similar corrupt traits, the LP candidate’s wife has shied away from a discourse that questions her integrity and that of the campaign run by Gbadebo.
It keeps being conceived in the public space that her silence over the issue could irrefutably translate to her concealed distrust of the avowed new breed of leadership the GRV campaign had promised to deliver to Lagosians.
However, some section of Nigerians, in the light of the revelations, continue to opine that if the GRV campaign was honest on its promises to deliver better governance to Lagos, then it must start with holding the culprits of the past to account, regardless of whose ox gets gored.