It is also an APC victory, but it is no time to gloat. The PDP was not crushed. With over 292,000 votes, Omisore showed a strong foothold on the state. It shows that the PDP is not yet a pushover in the Southwest. With Ekiti to PDP, and Osun to APC, it is in sports language, 1-1. A draw. It is time to go back to the drawing board. Last week’s victory is more an Ogbeni victory than an APC swagger. The Southwest folks want to be convinced. They have said, they are not for the taking. That is why the battle for the APC in Oyo and Ogun states must not be taken with the same sense of accomplishment as the one in Osun. There is a lot of work to be done. We can do road, we can do schools, we can do hospitals, but we should do the heart. Loyalty to a cause often transcends the loyalty to material gains. Money is good. Stomachs will rumble. But the grumble of the humble come more from a sense of understanding, a belief that you feel my pain and you are not here to con me. If the APC wants to build on this momentum, it has to follow the Ogbeni style. Not all of it. But his sense of folksy virtue, his animal enthusiasm for work. The other governor that shows an open animal joy for work is a PDP man, the Akwa Ibom governor, Godswill Akpabio, who speaks about his work as though an amorous affair. But he has evidence to prove his doings, in massive infrastructure, especially. When he became governor, Ogbeni promised an unusual reign. He delivered in the way he performed and in the way he won last week. It should not be different in the next four years - Sam Omatseye.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 05:57:51 +0000
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