ADEYEMI IS NOT SPECIAL. HE IS A TEMPLATE. AND ABUJA IS FULL OF THEM.
There is an entire class of operators in Nigeria's capital whose full-time job is proximity. They do not have products. They do not have services. They have access. And access in Abuja is the most valuable currency in circulation.
Here is how the template works.
It starts with a photograph. One picture with a governor. One picture with a minister. One picture with a legislator. It does not matter how it was taken. It does not matter if the official remembers them. The picture exists and the picture does the work. It goes on a website. It goes on a letterhead. It becomes the first slide in every presentation to the next target.
Then comes the compounding. They show up at events. Not invited but not stopped, because security at most government functions in Nigeria operates on familiarity, not verification. If you look like you belong and you have been there before, you get waved through. They do this consistently until their face is known. Until the aide at the door nods at them. Until the protocol officer assumes someone else cleared them.
Then they start bringing people. They arrive with delegations. Foreign looking faces. Men in suits carrying folders. Nobody at the gate is checking the credentials of a man who arrived with five people who look important. The optics are the clearance.
He even hosted a revered traditional ruler. Kabiesi thought he was meeting a proud son from his community who is doing well in Abuja, making Ogbomosho proud! Unfortunately, reverse is the case!
If anyone approaches you, says he's close to the President or Presidency, that he can help you get appointment, contracts or other patronage, be wary, it is 90% possible that he's an Adeniyi, especially when he demands money or other favours from you. Be wary. They're plenty in Abuja, moving like big men, whereas, they are crooks. They have accomplices inside government too, inside all arms of government.
DSS, Police and Court will use this particular case to unravel many things when the case eventually begins on July 27.
📹 not a recent video.