‘Bisoye Fagade, founding principal consultant/CEO of Sodium Brand Solutions Limiter, has revealed why he is gunning to govern Oyo State and not represent Lagelu/Akinyele State constituency.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain spoke in an exclusive interview with YES INTERNATIONAL! Magazine Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, AZUH ARINZE.
According to the dark-skinned and dashingly bearded marketing communications professional, the passion to see a better Nigeria made him join politics.
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Many people believe that you are planning to become the governor of Oyo State. Will you like to shed more light on that?
Ten or eleven years ago, I started off a movement called OSMD, which means Oyo si ma dun. I just wanted to become a governor and I still want to become the governor. All of us just can’t sit back and do nothing. We won’t continue to allow the worst of us rule over the best of us. When the best of us just sit down and do nothing, we won’t enjoy good governance. So, I decided that let me just play my part and I know that as a good human manager of resources, we can do better.
The interest in politics, what ignited it?
My passion to see a better country. If I wanted to be a politician years ago, I would have probably been in the House of Representatives, but I wanted a position where I know I could control and be responsible for things that I do. Trust me, if I wanted to be, ten or fifteen years ago, I would have gone for a position in government and would have won more that twice and I’ll be part and parcel of that structure. I have never run for any post aside this – to be a governor. And this is because I feel I’m totally responsible for what I do, my decision is mine. Just like Mr. President, he’s responsible for this country, whether it is good or bad, he’s still responsible for it. And I feel that I can make a whole lot of changes and difference too.
You have this popular slogan, OSMD, will you like telling us more about it?
I came up with that name eleven years ago. Things weren’t as bad as they are now, but I thought it was worse as of that time. It was a year when we were trying to save ourselves and I felt that I needed something that will motivate those in the north; someone that they needed to listen to. I felt that someone that my people in Oyo State can actually identify with and something that is more like a call to action, reason for hope. So, the OSMD, Oyo Si Ma Dun, means that Oyo can still be sweet again, literarily. There’s this saying that Oyo can never aspire to be like anybody. But that’s not what is happening right now. I don’t want to take us back to the old Oyo, I want to take us to the future, where we should be, and if you see Oyo State’s number plate, it says The Pacesetter. But, where exactly are we setting the pace? And because the leaders are comfortable with doing nothing, and also because people don’t complain, they are complacent. They are scared of development because they feel that people are okay where they are. There’s a lot of reason I want to be the governor. A lot! And it’s only the risk takers that can take the risk, others are just politicians.
