While Osinbanjo rose from academia to state and federal political prominence, Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC, Oluomo eventually emerged from the streets to secure a formal political appointment with the Lagos State government, despite his suspension by the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).

Following Mr Akinsanya’s exit from the NURTW, Governor Sanwo-Olu suspended the operations of the union in Lagos State, and appointed the embattled Akinsanya as the pioneer Chairman and Director General of the newly instituted Lagos Parks Management Committee. 

Thus, Mr Musiliu Akinsanya continues to lead his men, popularly called Agbero, who collect on his behalf an estimated N123 billion per annum, according to an ICIR investigative report.

MC Oluomo on the Charts

Though MC Oluomo still trails behind the political attainments of the likes of Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Governor Jide Sanwo-Olu and his godfather, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his rise to political relevance in Lagos State despite the odds against him is worthy of note. 

Officially recognised as Musiliu Ayinde Akinsanya, MC Oluomo’s music genre is a fusion of fuji blues layered on underground syncopated tatatatata beats, a rythmic groove made popular in Okene, Kogi State, which normalises scaring intending voters with gunshots and shooting at political rivals.

Besides few appearances like his live performance of Case together with the music Diva, Teni, MC Oluomo’s body of work is hard to trace. But his role as a regional politician made in Lagos is fast becoming significant.

Oluomo is reputed to be the street enforcer of voting decisions at the polls in Lagos State, and recently, Nigeria’s Southwest. In the last general elections in 2019, he boasted that his presence and that of his boys had secured wins for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, and he promised to repeat the same feat at the polls against the People Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State. 

Responding then to a reporter’s question about the state of the elections in Osun State, Mr Akinsanya said, “Now, we are in Oshogbo. My heart is full of joy. Who is PDP? where is PDP? PDP that’s dead?” 

Then gazing straight into the camera, he sent a direct message to an incumbent President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, “You Saraki, you brought your money to spend. Is your money not wasted now? Your money is wasted. 

You are mad. We have just started, Eh! Listen! Regarding Ilorin, Kwara (State), we will take it from your hand.”

Beating his chest, Oluomo affirmed, “It is confirmed. We will take it over from your hands. APC owns Kwara”

True to Akinsanya’s declaration, the All Progressive Congress won the Governorship election in Mr Saraki’s home state.

Yet, like Wizkid, Akinsanya has his own Ojuelegba story too. It was reported that he hustled in Lagos “from (a) Yellow Bus Conductor to Conducting Millions”.

Perhaps the notorious MC conducts much more than millions. A 2021 report by the ICIR shows he actually controls billions.

The ICIR report on Agberos in Lagos estimates that, given LAMATA’s conservative figures of 75,000 buses and other vehicles, enforcers of motor park and road transport levies, a.k.a. Agberos, rake in about N123 billion in revenue per annum. These levies are collected by different cadres of officers under Mr Musiliu Akinsanya.