Senator Babafemi Ojudu, who represented the Ekiti State Central Senatorial District in the Senate between 2011 and 2015, has reiterated that his four years in the Senate were frustrating, stressing that they were uneventful years.
Ojudu said this today in a statement he released to mark his 64th birthday, noting that he had also spent eight quiet years in the Presidency, enduring all manner of inconveniences, discomfort, and ethnic segregation—driven only by the hope that, with patience and commitment, he could help usher in a new day for the country by supporting the candidacy of the incurable patriot, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, for President.
“That dream, unfortunately, did not materialise”, he painfully emphasised.
He said, “Since then, I have returned to my comfort zone: watching, reflecting, and intervening from time to time. And now, as I mark my 64th birthday, I have found clarity in a quote whose author I do not know: ‘People of character do the right thing even if no one else does—not because they think it will change the world, but because they refuse to be changed by the world.’”
Ojudu resolved, “At 64, I have no illusions left. But I still have hope—hope that our democracy can be rescued from cynicism, that the next generation will do better than we did, and that Nigeria can one day be governed by reason, not impulse; by principle, not patronage.
“I remain in my party, but my ultimate loyalty is to the higher calling of conscience. Because, in the end, loyalty to country, to justice, and to democracy must outweigh loyalty to any individual or institution.
“This birthday, for me, is not just a celebration of life—it is a recommitment to purpose: to speak truth, to stand firm, to resist decay, and to keep alive, in whatever small way I can, the flickering but enduring flame of democracy.”
