I suppose it's possible that he's just trying to copy opebo. Which would be pathetic.
Even opebo didn't make an overnight transition, and if he did, it wasn't as clumsy as Simi's.
And apparently a hell of a lot more convincing -which doesn't make his views any less contrived than they were before.
Opebo's sole desire is to be comfortable satisfying his selfish and self-centered desires (i.e. screwing prostitutes). And he will support any ideology or personality (i.e. Qaddafi) whom he views as most likely to accommodate him. That is all. Everything else is merely fluff.