Still on Osun State and the Jihadist
AREGBESOLA must know that he is on his way out. If this man who held
sway as the commissioner for works in Lagos State for eight long years
at a stretch with the budget for the ministry being in trillions of
Naira (a budget that is bigger and fatter than the budget for the whole
of Osun state); and in the end he has nothing to show for it, then I
don’t see him achieving much in Osun State. It follows therefore, that
Aregbesola cannot do much for his people. It is obvious that with the
cumulative budget for four years being not up to five hundred billion
naira, the people of Osun should not expect any proactive moves from
him. If he could not achieve anything with that huge budget for a mere
ministry in Lagos state, then the people should not expect his
administration to touch their lives positively. No wonder he has plunged
them into religious turmoil?
Is it not obvious that it is a planned strategy to distract the people, simply because he knows his government is not transparent and would not be able to account for the squandering of their limited resources? With less than 500 billion Naira at his disposal, he cannot, in four years, do any meaningful thing for the people of Osun. Let us do a simple arithmetic here. It is out of this amount that he would build schools and hospitals and furnish them. It is also out of this amount that he would pay salaries and fund housing, sports and build roads. It is out of this amount also that he would fund over 10 important ministries; and also make sure that he caters for his cronies and political leaders. It is because he is so financially handicapped that he has resorted to propaganda as well as cheap ad hoc/crash programmes to cover up his failure.
How can a sitting governor, who is hard working indulge in such irrelevancies, as the renaming of a state; is it a new name that will put food on the table of an average Osun person? This is a state, which is part of a federation, yet, despite his illegal act, he is still accusing the presidency of short-changing the other tiers of government in the monthly allocation for both the states and the local government areas. Should the states not put in place solid economic policies, which would make them independent of the Federal Government so they could fend and cater for their people? Should Aregbesola not be the spearhead of such a policy, to justify his clamour for an “independent” state? He has conveniently forgotten that Osun state like any other state in the federation is absolutely subject to the federal government, firstly, as stated in the constitution, and also by the financial dependence on the central government, through the federal allocations. I marvel each time I consider the actions of this egocentric governor who sits atop the affairs of Osun State and wonder why he is not being realistic. This is a state that can hardly fend and cater for itself and its people without the absolute dependence on the federal government through the monthly jackpot known as federal allocation, and yet this confusionist of a governor is doing all he can to rubbish what great Yoruba heroes have done by his actions which is a play out of the script written by his political leaders..Osun state today is unarguably one of the five poorest states in Nigeria going by the facts on the ground and the economic and financial indices of the past thirteen years. In view of the foregoing, is it not obvious why he is using religion to cause disruption in the state? He has nothing to offer, he cannot see his way through the muddle because he simply has no clue of how to run the state. No wonder he is using the fight or flight survival strategy!
— Mr. Babatunde wrote in from tundedisuza@yahoo.com
I have a few questions for Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. Did he discuss with stakeholders before introducing this new policy? If he did, what are their responses? Did he listen only to the sycophants surrounding him in government? What he is toying with is dangerous. Religious was in the S/W is and evil wind that would do no one any good.
— Popoola Taiwo, Ibadan. 08058584692
I refer to the unsettled problem in Osun state raised in your column last week. The fault is from the chairman of CAN in the State. I see him as someone who lacks the spirit of God to wrestle against the principle of ungodliness. The Christian Association should go to Governor Raufu Aregbeshola and ask him to return all schools to their owners; this is the solution, instead of Christians fighting for what does not belong to them.
— Pastor Comfort Adebayo-Oyende. 08085441411
Is it not obvious that it is a planned strategy to distract the people, simply because he knows his government is not transparent and would not be able to account for the squandering of their limited resources? With less than 500 billion Naira at his disposal, he cannot, in four years, do any meaningful thing for the people of Osun. Let us do a simple arithmetic here. It is out of this amount that he would build schools and hospitals and furnish them. It is also out of this amount that he would pay salaries and fund housing, sports and build roads. It is out of this amount also that he would fund over 10 important ministries; and also make sure that he caters for his cronies and political leaders. It is because he is so financially handicapped that he has resorted to propaganda as well as cheap ad hoc/crash programmes to cover up his failure.
How can a sitting governor, who is hard working indulge in such irrelevancies, as the renaming of a state; is it a new name that will put food on the table of an average Osun person? This is a state, which is part of a federation, yet, despite his illegal act, he is still accusing the presidency of short-changing the other tiers of government in the monthly allocation for both the states and the local government areas. Should the states not put in place solid economic policies, which would make them independent of the Federal Government so they could fend and cater for their people? Should Aregbesola not be the spearhead of such a policy, to justify his clamour for an “independent” state? He has conveniently forgotten that Osun state like any other state in the federation is absolutely subject to the federal government, firstly, as stated in the constitution, and also by the financial dependence on the central government, through the federal allocations. I marvel each time I consider the actions of this egocentric governor who sits atop the affairs of Osun State and wonder why he is not being realistic. This is a state that can hardly fend and cater for itself and its people without the absolute dependence on the federal government through the monthly jackpot known as federal allocation, and yet this confusionist of a governor is doing all he can to rubbish what great Yoruba heroes have done by his actions which is a play out of the script written by his political leaders..Osun state today is unarguably one of the five poorest states in Nigeria going by the facts on the ground and the economic and financial indices of the past thirteen years. In view of the foregoing, is it not obvious why he is using religion to cause disruption in the state? He has nothing to offer, he cannot see his way through the muddle because he simply has no clue of how to run the state. No wonder he is using the fight or flight survival strategy!
— Mr. Babatunde wrote in from tundedisuza@yahoo.com
I have a few questions for Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. Did he discuss with stakeholders before introducing this new policy? If he did, what are their responses? Did he listen only to the sycophants surrounding him in government? What he is toying with is dangerous. Religious was in the S/W is and evil wind that would do no one any good.
— Popoola Taiwo, Ibadan. 08058584692
I refer to the unsettled problem in Osun state raised in your column last week. The fault is from the chairman of CAN in the State. I see him as someone who lacks the spirit of God to wrestle against the principle of ungodliness. The Christian Association should go to Governor Raufu Aregbeshola and ask him to return all schools to their owners; this is the solution, instead of Christians fighting for what does not belong to them.
— Pastor Comfort Adebayo-Oyende. 08085441411
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