First and foremost, let me congratulate the Osun State governor elect, Mr. Jackson Ademola Adeleke (Dancing Senator) on his victory in the just concluded election in the State of Osun. They have decided who steers the boat of the state in the next four years. The dancing Senator has won the election; it is now left for him to do well or bad. If he could surpass the incumbent administration of Gov. Gboyega Isiaka Oyetola, let him be.
And for Gov. Oyetola, he should accept defeat as the will of God almighty. Also as a good Muslim, he should have it in mind that it is only Allãh that enthrones the kings and dethrones them as well. He should please, congratulate the winner of the election and move on.
Back in Ogun State, in a matter of urgency and fact, the Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun should be getting ready and start preparing his handover note for the next governor. The Osun State election should be a lesson for those power intoxicated Governors, Senators, Representatives, Assembly members that thought that they could use power of incumbency to rig election. Indeed, this is a clarion call and a signal to Governor Abiodun-led administration.
Dapo Abiodun absolutely believes in himself and the members of his cabinet that were pushing him here and there. Imagine a sitting governor that is not liked or loved by his workers, members of the public and others. Dapo Abiodun is not a workers’ friendly governor, with due respect, he underrates the workers, believing that they were voting. Now that the vote is counting, Dapo Abiodun would gnash his teeth in the coming elections in the state.
What happened in Osun State will surely happen in Ogun State, because Abiodun’s administration is always paying lip services to the development of the state, the masses are tired of lies, and he has betrayed the confidence people reposed in him. He should start packing his loads from the government office in Oke-Mosan and the state in general.
He should be reminded that after three years in office, he has done nothing tangible to better the lives of the entire Ogun State indigenes. All the promises made during his electioneering campaign were not even fulfilled, the entire workforce are wallowing in abject poverty, the motorists and commuters are still complaining about dilapidated of roads, market women and men are also grumbling of high cost of living, taxes and double taxation.
I was in Abeokuta last weekend, the people were lamenting of bad roads. When it is raining, hundreds of people were stranded at the different bus-stops, in fact, I was forced to convey some passengers from Kuto, Lafenwa to their various destinations. I was told that it was the works and infrastructures being put in place by the last administration of Senator Ibikunle Amosun that they were enjoying/appreciating now.
I was heading towards Federal Housing Estate Olomore, in fact, to my surprise the road is still in the shambles, unmotorable for those plying the road. They were cursing the governor for compounding their plight and predicaments. I could remember that the governor wanted to repair the road but worsened their situation. Olomore becomes a deserted area for the motorists and commuters. Let him tell the world, what is he doing with tax payers’ money? Barely two years, he could not complete a two kilometers road of Olomore, why not leave it the way it was before?
Go and ask those living in Ijoko, Alagbole, Akute, Agbado, Papa, Ifo and environs, how they are managing to ply their roads, you will realize that the governor is doing them more damage than favoring them with level of their bad roads, likewise too, those living in Lafenwa, Brewery, Abule-Otun, Ijeun tuntun, Ijehun Lukosi and many others in Abeokuta Metropolis. Governor Abiodun should do something to those roads before they consume his reelection bid. The people are now saying that “Dapo lo’kan, lo’ma lu’le” meaning, it is time for Dapo Abiodun to fall in Ogun State.
Imagine for the first time in many years, the people of Ijebuland celebrated Ojude Oba Festival with extremely bad condition of links roads, in fact, during the inglorious days of Ibikunle Amosun, roads in Ijebu-Ode in particular were given palliative attention, and this gives easy access during the period.
Let me ask Mr. Governor what is the latest on the popular Molipa expressway which your administration started with the admiration of the people almost two years back? What about Ondo, Oke-Aje/Ilese raods, Igbeba roads? What is your administration doing to alleviate the suffering of the motorists and commuters plying these roads? Or are they not paying their taxes?
Mr. Governor, mind you, I personally wish you a successful tenure, I mean a single tenure like former Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode and Osun State Governor, Gboyega Isiaka Oyetola, because it seems that some of the people around you are not allowing you to feel the pulse of the people you are governing.
It is time for Governor Dapo Abiodun to join the retired governors that did a single term in person of Ambode and Oyetola of APC, because the people of Ogun State will speak with their vote in 2023, as they did to his Osun State counterpart recently. If you like, do good, if you like, do otherwise, when it is time of voting, the people will justify your good deeds and bad through their votes. Now, the Ogun peoples’ anthem is “Dapo Ma’lule lo’Ogun.
Aliykal Lanre, a journalist, public commentator, wrote in from Ketu Alapere, Lagos State. Can be reached via aliykhallanre@gmail.com.
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