The Man Who Bets on Every Horse: Why President Tinubu Must Watch Zach Adedeji —Abdul Wakeel Ajao

‎In the blood sport of Nigerian politics, there is a particular breed of operator more dangerous than an open enemy, the man who smiles with you while funding your opponent. Oyo State has one such man, and his name is increasingly difficult to ignore.
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‎Zach Adedeji has built a quiet but unmistakable political reputation over the years: when elections approach, his money moves, and it rarely moves in only one direction.
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‎Political analysts in Oyo State will tell you that Zach’s financial fingerprints have appeared across party lines in virtually every significant election cycle. This is not speculation, it is an observable pattern of a man who has mastered the art of backing every horse in the race, ensuring that whoever wins, he retains access, relevance, and reward.
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‎While serving under the late Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s APC-led government, benefitting from its structure, its platform, and its goodwill, Zach Adedeji allegedly opened his purse to fund Gov. Seyi Makinde, then a rising opposition figure. The same Makinde who would go on to defeat APC and send the party into the political wilderness where Oyo APC faithful have wandered for nearly eight painful years.
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‎Eight years of sacrifice. Eight years of faithful party members holding the APC flag in the rain with no government patronage at the state level, no rewards, sustained only by conviction and hope.
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‎And the man who helped engineer that suffering? He is today positioning himself as APC’s most indispensable figure in Oyo State.
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‎What makes him particularly dangerous is not his wealth, it is his methodology. He embeds himself deep within the ruling structure, gaining trust, access, and intelligence. Then, quietly, he insures himself by investing in the opposition. If his primary horse wins, he is a loyalist. If the opposition wins, he is a benefactor. He never loses. Everyone else does.
‎This is not political sophistication. This is betrayal dressed in strategy.
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‎The APC faithful in Oyo State understand this better than anyone. They have lived the consequences, years in opposition, watching a governor partly funded into power by a man who claimed to be on their side.
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‎This is where the matter becomes a national conversation.
‎President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a political colossus, a man who has navigated Nigeria’s most treacherous political waters for decades. He understands loyalty. He also understands betrayal. Which is precisely why those who genuinely support his vision must sound this alarm clearly:
‎Zach Adelabu Adedeji cannot be trusted with the soul of Oyo APC.
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‎A man who funded your party’s opponent in 2015, while sitting inside your party’s government, will not hesitate to do the same in 2027. The structure may be different. The office may be grander. But the pattern does not lie.
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‎Mr. President, with the greatest respect: a leopard that changed its spots for Ajimobi will not change them for Tinubu.
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‎Oyo APC faithful have paid too high a price, eight years too high, to allow one man’s calculated ambition and cross-party financial games to once again determine their fate.
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‎The 2027 elections are approaching. The stakes are existential for Oyo APC.
‎A man who has historically sponsored both sides of every war should not be handed the keys to your arsenal.
‎President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the evidence is in the pattern. And the pattern never lies.
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