OSUN GUBER: Osun gubernatorial election that is coming up on August 9, 2014. We do not need a soothsayer to tell all and sundry that Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is on his way back to Lagos State. After almost four years in the saddle, what we have in Osun is tension everywhere. If he is not causing chaos in his project implementation, he will be busy abusing an Oba. He had an altercation with Timi of Ede over land matters when he opened his wife garment factory. The people of Iwo will never forget in a hurry how the school merger nearly ruptured the peace hitherto enjoyed in Iwo when pupils wore masquerade dresses, choir dresses, hijab and all manner of dresses to school in protestation to Aregbesola’s policy. Opon Imo, the flagship of his programme, is full of contradictions. Apart from the errors in the tablet that led to woeful performance in NECO and WAEC this year, he promised to deliver 150,000 of that figure, not a quarter has been supplied to schools. Do you now expect those people who have been improverished by his anti-people policy to cast their vote for him? Now, he has set N2billion apart to pay compensation to those he willfully destroyed their means of livelihood, won’t those people see the compensation as Greek gift? Will the civil servant who have not received salary for an upward of three months cast their vote for Aregbesola? What of O-YES who are being owed nine months, will they not use their brooms to sweep away Aregbesola? If Governor Fayemi who everybody agrees is a perfect gentleman could lose so scandalously because of disconnect from the people, what then will be the lot of Aregbesola who has lost touch with reality? Democracy is supposed to be government of the people for the people and by the people and not other way round. The governor of Rivers State, His Excellency, Rotimi Chuibike Ameachi, said a while ago that the masses would soon be stoning them because of acute corruption, the Ekiti masses have responded through their votes and the train has moved from Ekiti to Osun where another landslide is expected. It is like a Passover feast of the Hebrews, it would soon catch up with Lagos and other states whose chief executive officers have betrayed the confidence reposed in them by the masses.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 07:17:59 +0000