While Dr. (Mrs.) Florence Ajimobi and her handlers are quick to blame Artificial Intelligence for a video they describe as fraudulent, one is compelled to ask a few sincere questions that history itself keeps asking on behalf of the people of Oyo State.
First, we must ask Madam plainly: was the maladministration of her husband’s eight-year administration also AI-generated?
Was it Artificial Intelligence that reduced hardworking Oyo State civil servants to perpetual half salary, subjecting families to hunger, debt, and untold hardship? Or was it AI that almost crippled the state workforce and demoralized public service to its lowest ebb?
Was it also AI that nearly wiped out pensioners, leaving elderly men and women who gave their productive years to Oyo State unpaid, unattended to, and abandoned without pensions and gratuities? Were their tears, protests, sicknesses, and deaths caused by synthetic deception too?
Perhaps more instructive, Madam should clarify: was it AI that prevented her husband from constructing up to 60 kilometres of quality roads in eight solid years of governance?
Was it generative technology that stalled infrastructure, slowed development, and left communities disconnected while neighboring states moved forward?
If today’s failures are being blamed on AI-generated videos, Nigerians deserve to know whether yesterday’s governance failures were also digitally fabricated.
No amount of technical grammar, forensic buzzwords, or legal threats can erase lived experiences.
The people of Oyo State did not experience governance through algorithms; they experienced it through empty wallets, unpaid pensions, abandoned roads, and broken promises.
Before crying wolf over synthetic deception, Dr. (Mrs.) Florence Ajimobi should first explain the very real, very human consequences of the administration her family presided over.
History is not AI-generated.
Suffering was not a deepfake.
And governance failure cannot be edited out with press statements.
Agbaye writes from oyo state
