Don’t colonise Oyo, Accord Party tells Ajimobi share By Olusakin Babalola, Ibadan Oyo State Chairman of Accord Party (AP), Alhaji Lawal Aremu Bashir, has advised the state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, against colonising the state, alleging that what the people of the state expected from him included giving dividends of democracy to them and not transferring such to outsiders. Bashir gave the advise in Ibadan while speaking with Sunday Newswatch on national issues which included politics and security. The AP chair said that it was unfair for the government to allow the company in which the former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu, was a director to be the sole beneficiary of most of the contracts coming out from the state. He referred to the just completed Mokola Bridge in Ibadan and a similar one constructed in Ogun State, alleging that they were done by a company belonging to Tinubu. Bashir said that it would be fair if the contract for the bridge was given to contractors who were indigenes of Oyo State, adding that what the government has done could be likened to colonising the state. However, the state Commissioner of Information, Pastor Taiwo Otegbeye, had earlier defended the governor on the issue of contract award raised by the party chairman, saying that the people of the state were not marginalised as alleged by the opposition. Bashir had also alleged that the ‘Ajumose’ shuttle buses of the state government were registered with Lagos registration numbers, adding that the revenue would in effect, go to the purse of Lagos State Government, instead of having them in Oyo State. “It means they are deliberately punishing the people of the state by not making the economy to move. Most of these contracts being awarded were given to people from Lagos State”, he alleged, adding that “this is the economic colonisation of Oyo State. Our people are not carried along in the development of the state and what we are meant to enjoy are going to others who are not better than us in terms of quality work”.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:35:16 +0000
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