Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo State, is politically naked and instead of Raufu Olaniyan, Mukaila Lamidi, chairman of the disciplinary committee of the Parks Management System, PMS, is the one that is regarded as deputy governor, says Adebayo Adelabu, governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said.
Adelabu, who was APC’s governorship candidate in the 2019 election made this known at a press conference heralding his official declaration which comes up next week.
According to the Obafemi Awolowo University trained accountant and Agbaakin Parakoyi of Ibadanland, I have observed the deficiencies of the present Oyo State Government being led by Engineer Seyi Makinde. These deficiencies point unerringly to an unspeakable lack of understanding about what is called Government Business. Government Business is not a trade which any man does for his personal emoluments or aggrandizement. It takes society for its basis and reason and experiences for its guide. It takes society for its basis because it is the centre towards which people gravitate for collaboration and cooperation in order to achieve progress and happiness. This is the reason why the business is divided or expanded into Ministeries, Agencies and Departments in order to serve Humanity.
“Unfortunately, but really, the current Oyo State Government is failing daily and woefully on fundamental departments of Government business. For instance, Security of lives and properties which is the true end and aim of Government is a distant achievement for Seyi’s Government. His Government has enthroned Thuggery and hooliganism as the official controllers of Oyo State. The indigenes and residents in the Pacesetter state can not sleep with their two eyes closed talkless of doing businesses of life with peace and progress.
“The Excellency of Government is no longer excellent in Oyo State in the light of our sordid performance in the Environment, Education, Health, Security, Agriculture among others.”
Adelabu, who is the immediate past deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, added that it will be impossible for Makinde to be re-elected governor next year.
Adelabu explained that Makinde had been isolated politically, having lost the coalition members who stepped down for him to win in 2019.
This was just as he said that the owners of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who have been dumping Makinde for the APC, have added weight to the odds that are stacked against his re-election.
Makinde, according to Adelabu, would not have been governor today if former governor of the state, Rashidi Ladoja had not put a coalition together in a bid to stop the late former governor, Abiola Ajimobi, from installing a successor.
He said that he had always been committed to peace-building as “I am the highest employer of youth in Oyo state. Ninety per cent of my investments are here.”
Related