Browsing: Rauf Aregbesola

Having said these, I’ve in recent times been equally pained by the stigmatization of Osun State as if it is the only state in Nigeria currently owing its workers months in arrears of salaries and pensions. The belief in some quarters that the state is the ‘sole culprit’ in this rather unfortunate salary default is not only wicked, it is also a malicious attempt by some enemies of the state to paint the administration in bad light and portray the government as grossly incompetent, obtusely inconsiderate and acutely lacking in compassion for its people

The 2014 Osun governorship election was a modern day version of Jalumi War that witnessed the decisive defeat of an army of occupation and liberating the land of an occupied people locked down, repressed, intimidated and harassed by those who were paid from their taxes to protect them

“We know the Osun voter is not worth more than N10,000 and a bag of rice and we definitely have that in abundance.” Such is the disdainful conclusion and the pitiful value they have placed on the state and the Osun Voter! A huge slap on the Yoruba race
This cynical theory goes along the myopic lines of “it’s when your stomach is totally taken care of that you can think of making use of the social amenities and infrastructure”. The better saying in my opinion is “give a man a piece of fish and you feed him for a day