OSOGBO – Governor Ademola Adeleke on Tuesday officially flagged off his re-election campaign ahead of the August 15, 2026 governorship election, declaring that the Accord Party would remain on the ballot and expressing confidence that he would secure a second term in office. Addressing thousands of supporters, party leaders, defectors and various interest groups at Freedom Park, Osogbo, Adeleke described the campaign as a “divine journey to victory,” assuring party faithful that all lawful measures were being pursued to safeguard their constitutional rights to vote and be voted for. “Accord will be on the ballot; your votes will count; and I will be re-elected as your governor on August 15th,” the governor declared amid cheers from supporters. Adeleke said his administration would not succumb to what he described as “dark forces,” insisting that democracy and the rule of law must prevail in Osun State. The governor also revisited the lingering local government crisis in the state, cong...
....ambition has a tax, and the tax collector is merciless
It’s not everyone who can lie down in comfort and still rise in greatness. Some spirits refuse the pillow of ease; they burn differently, restless until destiny bows.
When the Olympics was introduced, some athletes came only to participate. Others came with medals carved in their dreams - gold, for silver, bronze glittering in their imagination before the gun ever fired. The difference? Sacrifice.
Patrick Evra, the former Manchester United defender, once revealed that Sir Alex Ferguson was not just a coach; he was a storm in a tracksuit. Call a player lazy, and Ferguson would call him “son of a bitch” to his face. His law was simple: if I line up my eleven, no team in the world dares to humble them. That wasn’t arrogance. That was order. That was nature in boots.
People now call him lucky. But where were those same voices when other coaches stood on the same pitch, with the same grass, the same whistle, the same board meetings, and yet became serial failures? Luck? No. Law. The law that sacrifice and vision cannot be cheated forever.
Celebrities too pay their toll. We see their light, but rarely their shadows. Ferguson nearly sacrificed the warmth of family, stretched his retirement like a man stretching time itself, just to keep his dynasty alive. Ambition has a tax, and the tax collector is merciless.
Society calls it obsession, critics call it madness. Yet the truth is simple: those who bend the laws of nature with sweat, sacrifice, and vision may walk wounded, but never broken. Those who try to bend it with shortcuts, deceit, or comfort? Nature waits, smiling. It breaks them in due season.
So let it be written:
Greatness is never free.
Comfort is never loyal.
And nature… nature is never mocked.
Abioye Tosin Lawrence is the Publisher of Oriontimes Online Newspaper and author of the forthcoming memoir, Voices from the Fire: My Journey Through a Hollow Empire.
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