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| Myself and Femi Babalola who was at my grandmother's funeral Dec 2013 |
As the race for the Agodi Government House in Oyo State hots up, ahead 2015 governorship election, an aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Femi Babalola, at the weekend, declared his intention to run, saying he has joined the race to serve the good people of Oyo State and work hand-in-hand with all to take the state to its pride of place.
This was as he charged the people of the state to beware of “imported politicians thriving on propaganda, borrowed ideas and parochial interests,” adding that “it is only those who live with the people and understand the terrain that will know the appropriate programme and project for each community.”
Babalola, who said he had resources to “make meaningful contribution” to the advancement of the state, as an employer of labour since 1990, added that the state deserved “a truly people-oriented government of its own.”
He added that the state did not need “a stooge administration, remotely-controlled from Lagos” which “executes only such projects that make money for the expansionists. For us in Oyo State, 2015 is about forward ever, backward never.
“2014 is here, the test-case and the political eve of 2015, when we would have another golden opportunity to decide in whose hands we want to entrust our collective destiny, our resources and, by implication, our future for another four years.
“Without mincing words, four years is a long period in man’s lifetime, therefore, one must not joke or toy with a decision that will affect him, his family and his society for a whole four years and, by extension, may even have an impact of a lifetime.”
This was as he charged the people of the state to beware of “imported politicians thriving on propaganda, borrowed ideas and parochial interests,” adding that “it is only those who live with the people and understand the terrain that will know the appropriate programme and project for each community.”
Babalola, who said he had resources to “make meaningful contribution” to the advancement of the state, as an employer of labour since 1990, added that the state deserved “a truly people-oriented government of its own.”
He added that the state did not need “a stooge administration, remotely-controlled from Lagos” which “executes only such projects that make money for the expansionists. For us in Oyo State, 2015 is about forward ever, backward never.
“2014 is here, the test-case and the political eve of 2015, when we would have another golden opportunity to decide in whose hands we want to entrust our collective destiny, our resources and, by implication, our future for another four years.
“Without mincing words, four years is a long period in man’s lifetime, therefore, one must not joke or toy with a decision that will affect him, his family and his society for a whole four years and, by extension, may even have an impact of a lifetime.”
