Oyo North Senatorial District: Sen Fatai Buhari and Chief Hannah Ogunesan are inseparable political twins; the duo are too strong to break | By Hammed Tunde
BAF and HOO are inseparable twins; they are too strong to break.
It’s Time For One Twin to Step Aside for the Other to Shine.
They say Sen. Buhari Abdul-Fatai (BAF) and Mrs Hannah Olawumi Ogunesan (HOO) are inseparable twins, not by blood, but by bond. Their journey together, from the trenches of Oyo State politics under the late, great Governor Abiola Ajimobi to the national stage, has been a masterclass in loyalty and shared vision.
For years, they have stood shoulder to shoulder, their love and mutual respect stronger than any rumour or political interest that has tried to drive a wedge between them.
But even the strongest twins must sometimes face a simple truth: the path forward cannot always be walked side by side. Sometimes, one must pause and let the other lead.
Today, BAF is a distinguished third-term (3rd) senator representing Oyo North. He has served with visible impact. He now publicly nurses a governorship ambition, a noble next step.
Yet whispers have grown louder that he may instead run for a fourth (4th) term in the Senate, against the very governorship dream he has spoken of. And now, his old friend-like twin, HOO, Hannah Olawumi Ogunesan, has stepped forward, under the same APC banner, to run for Senate in Oyo North.
Here is where loyalty must be defined not by silence, but by honour.
BAF has already written his name in the Senate’s history. Three (3) terms are a worthy harvest. To seek a fourth (4th), especially when his twin, who has walked every mile with him, who bled in the same campaigns, and who kept faith when interests sought to separate them, is now ready and capable, would not feel like ambition; it would feel like crowding.
HOO is not a stranger. She is not an opponent. She is family. And family knows when to say, ‘You’ve had your turn.’ Now let me carry the torch.
This is not a fight. It is a gentle nudge from those who love both men and women of integrity. Let BAF pursue the governorship with all his might. That is a new frontier.
But the Senate seat for Oyo North? That should now be HOO’s turn. Not because BAF is less, but because he is more, more experienced, more suited now for executive power, and more of a twin if he remembers that twins grow by honouring each other’s seasons.
So let the public see this for what it is, not betrayal, but brotherly (and sisterly) love.
BAF, step up for governorship. HOO, step in for Senate. That is how twins truly win.
And to BAF’s loyalists, I say this with a smile: you cannot claim “inseparable twins” and then ask one twin to sit forever in the other’s shadow.
Let HOO run. Let BAF rise higher. That is the loyalty the public will respect.
By: Asiwaju Hammed Tunde,
Media and Public Relations Expert,
Oke-Ogun, Oyo State.
