By Ayodele Oni
Ondo State Attorney General and commissioner for Justice, Olukayode Ajulo SAN, has joined prominent Nigerians and traditional ruler to mediate in the ongoing verbal attacks between the publisher of Ovation magazine, Dele Momodu and Ambassador Femi Fani- Kayode.
The duo had in the past few days engaged in war of words over political differences, exposing their ugly past on social media.
Ajulo, a close ally of the two, in an open letter, appealed to them to display the Yoruba traits, one of which is Omoluabi.
Ajulo ‘s letter : “Bashorun Dele Momodu, the compass from Ile-Ife whose quiet calls in the my earlier days first taught me that a true elder does not merely advise but lights the path, and
Sadauna Femi Fani-Kayode, the indomitable lion whose fire I once had the solemn honour of defending, emerging victorious not by force but by the quiet architecture of justice, I write to you not as a junior, but as one who has drunk deeply from the wells you dug.
“I have watched and read with the ache of a son who loves two fathers. Your minds have met in battle like thunderclouds on the horizon; brilliant, electric, impossible to ignore.
“Yet an old Yoruba saying sits between us like a patient elder: Bi erin meji ba ji, koriko a gbagbe oruko Igbo: when two elephants fight, the grass does more than suffer; it forgets the name of the forest that gave it life.
“There is truth here that cuts deeper than rhetoric: the people, our people, are the forest, and their remembering is what binds us.
“Conflict between kindred spirits is not always sin; it can be the kiln in which truth is hardened. Heraclitus taught that strife shapes being, and our own Yoruba orunmila whispers that wisdom is found where questions meet. But strife without resolution is a wound left to fester. The logos, the balance that binds, must be sought, or the very fabric of our shared life frays.
“The Yoruba speak of oju Otito; the face of truth and the axiom of omoluabi: character measured by how one treats the community. I call on you to show that same omoluabi now.
“Not for applause, not for convenience, but because Nigeria, because Yorubaland, because the generations who will inherit our mistakes and our triumphs, deserve leaders who can rise above ego and choose legacy.
“Make peace, not as surrender, but as transcendence. Make reconciliation not as a pause in the war, but as a promise of new work. Let March 2026 be remembered not as the month when titans traded blows, but as the month when two of our brightest sons chose to be a single light for the nation; one the keeper of memory, the other the guardian of conscience; and together made history.
“I offer myself to that work; not merely as mediator with words and legal instruments you once trusted me with, but as a fellow traveller committed to the slow, patient labour of rebuilding trust. Call me, and I will come; speak, and I will listen; act, and I will stand with you.
“May the spirits of our ancestors; the wise ones of Ile-Ife, the teachers of Ori and Iwa; bear witness to this choice.
“May your names be spoken in future houses not with rancour but with gratitude: two men who, having known the thunder, learned how to bring rain.With deepest respect, abiding affection, and the unshakeable conviction that greater men have always chosen peace after the storm,
Dr. Kayode Ajulo, OON, SAN
…for the people
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