Comments on: Critical issues in Ondo politics http://mimikoforgovernor.com/121/ Ondo State Governor! Wed, 26 May 2010 09:10:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Olaitan Babafemi Jayeola http://mimikoforgovernor.com/121/comment-page-1/#comment-1251 Olaitan Babafemi Jayeola Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:56:51 +0000 http://mimikoforgovernor.com/121/#comment-1251 Yes, gone are the days of political rubbish. These days, our people are more aware, and are looking forward to issues, developmental programmes and policies. How do you explain knocking on someone's door and handing him 200 naira just a few months or days to the election? You are outrightly calling him a fool. That you are paying him off, even if voted into office. Programmes of deception like the bitumen programme of 2003 have put so much doubts in the minds of the people towards this "supposed Olokola" agenda, and the fact that we have been servicing someone else's debt with Nigeria Airways & co is a clear setback too. People are fed up of drinking water and viewing white elephant projects on telly; but we need real, effective and constructive programmes. We have so much resources that are yet untapped, and the few readily available are being squandered recklessly. Abeg enough of this bullshit. Well, we've all agreed that "the great physician" should come and heal us. At least we collectively agreed, and we are not taking a dime to accept his readiness to chart a new course. We have put our trust in God to save us, and that is our hope of moving forward from this spot. Surely, there's a new dawn in Ondo State. Mimiko joo, gbasibe jare. Yes, gone are the days of political rubbish. These days, our people are more aware, and are looking forward to issues, developmental programmes and policies. How do you explain knocking on someone’s door and handing him 200 naira just a few months or days to the election? You are outrightly calling him a fool. That you are paying him off, even if voted into office. Programmes of deception like the bitumen programme of 2003 have put so much doubts in the minds of the people towards this “supposed Olokola” agenda, and the fact that we have been servicing someone else’s debt with Nigeria Airways & co is a clear setback too. People are fed up of drinking water and viewing white elephant projects on telly; but we need real, effective and constructive programmes. We have so much resources that are yet untapped, and the few readily available are being squandered recklessly. Abeg enough of this bullshit.

Well, we’ve all agreed that “the great physician” should come and heal us. At least we collectively agreed, and we are not taking a dime to accept his readiness to chart a new course. We have put our trust in God to save us, and that is our hope of moving forward from this spot.

Surely, there’s a new dawn in Ondo State. Mimiko joo, gbasibe jare.

]]> By: Tosin OGUNMOLA http://mimikoforgovernor.com/121/comment-page-1/#comment-632 Tosin OGUNMOLA Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:36:27 +0000 http://mimikoforgovernor.com/121/#comment-632 The truth of the matter is that it is high time Nigeria moved to an issues-based politics & governance and I think Ondo State, with the caliber of the people in politics in the state (at least, the major contenders as highlighted in this article), can spearhead that in the country. Gone are the days of useless sentiments in the determination who wins in an election. Coupled with your antecedents, the main factor of success should be your ability to harness & process the available resources to achieve the desired results. Also, we must realise that violence takes no one anywhere. At the end of it all, we will only have to count the losses. If truly anyone is ready to serve, politics should not be a do-or-die affair because if such a one is refused at the polls, it is only the people who must have lost out in the sense that they would have lost the opportunity to benefit from what the person has to offer. So if anyone becomes violent about getting into a particular office, it simply shows he/she is not really out to serve the people but must surely be after his/her own personal gains. By their fruits, you shall know them. The truth of the matter is that it is high time Nigeria moved to an issues-based politics & governance and I think Ondo State, with the caliber of the people in politics in the state (at least, the major contenders as highlighted in this article), can spearhead that in the country.

Gone are the days of useless sentiments in the determination who wins in an election. Coupled with your antecedents, the main factor of success should be your ability to harness & process the available resources to achieve the desired results.

Also, we must realise that violence takes no one anywhere. At the end of it all, we will only have to count the losses.

If truly anyone is ready to serve, politics should not be a do-or-die affair because if such a one is refused at the polls, it is only the people who must have lost out in the sense that they would have lost the opportunity to benefit from what the person has to offer. So if anyone becomes violent about getting into a particular office, it simply shows he/she is not really out to serve the people but must surely be after his/her own personal gains. By their fruits, you shall know them.

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