Ogboju Ole ti n jare Oni n kan is Yoruba's way of describing a thief who is so bold as to challenge his victim after dispossessing him of his belongings and would try hard to convince all and sundry that he actually owns the property. An Ogboju Ole would be so shameless and bold to prove that what he was accused of stealing actually belongs to him and not to his victim.
In proving his case, he would not mind to employ all tactics from the sublime to the ridiculous. A thief has no shame anyway. So anybody who does this is said to be suffering from the 'Ogboju Ole' Syndrome. I first came about this phrase when I was in form 4. There was a junior student whose nickname was Chenchema. He stole books of his classmates and convinced everybody the books were his. He stole their money and asked them in our presence to mention the numbers written on the money while he quoted the numbers correctly because the whole essence of his being is how to steal and keep the stolen property by putting the owner on the defensive through dirty tactics. This is an apt description of the latest legal action taken by Mr.Segun Oni, ousted governor of Ekiti State. He petitioned the Appeal Court in Ado-Ekiti on the ground that he was not given fair hearing at the Appeal Court Ilorin and therefore asked the Court to reverse itself. He prayed the court to set aside the earlier judgment and order the Speaker of the House of Assembly to take over as Governor, pending the determination of the matter.
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