This is to notify all that Ms. omotaylor is indisposed but will rejoin the site very soon.

I will want to say congrats to the people of Ondo State and those in the true struggle for GOOD Governance in Nigeria as a whole.
Pls can I hear from Fred and Iroko Kekere. Long time I heard from the well of wisdom of these great beloved.

This is to notify all that Ms. omotaylor is indisposed but will rejoin the site very soon.

I will want to say congrats to the people of Ondo State and those in the true struggle for GOD Governance in Nigeria as a whole.
Pls can I hear from Fred and Iroko Kekere. Long time I heard from the well of wisdom of these great beloved.

This is to notify all that Ms. omotaylor is indisposed but will rejoin the site very soon.

I will want to say congrats to the people of Ondo State and those in the true struggle for GOD Governance in Nigeria as a whole.
Pls can I hear from Fred and iroko Kekere. Long time I heard from the well of wisdom of this persons

Peace my people.

Remain calm, Ondo Labour tells residents 15/2/2009

From Damisi Ojo, Akure

As the countdown to the Appeal Court judgment over the April 14, 2007 governorship election in Ondo state draws near, the Labour Party (LP) in Ondo state has urged the people to remain calm in the face of provocation by some disgruntled elements.

They party however commended them for their resilience, support and stoic defence of that which is just, in a clime where some notable men had been compromised.

In a statement signed by the state Publicity Secretary of the party, Pastor Ranti Akerele in Akure, the state capital yesterday, said “LP as a people- oriented political party we also use this opportunity to pledge our continued protection of the interests of the good people of Ondo State and the good values of truth, honesty, love, kindness and the good neighbourliness cherished by them.

He stressed that in due course, through the instrumentality of the Nigerian Constitution, the injustices of the past would have been corrected saying that the true dividends of democracy would be delivered to the people in the most efficient, effective and transparent manner by the party.

His worlds: “We therefore use this medium to appeal for calm and peace in all our cities, towns and villages. It is of utmost importance that nothing is done to breach the peace as we are aware of the wicked plans of some disgruntled politicians who are daily planning widespread violence expecting retaliatory responses that could force the declaration of a State of emergency in Ondo-State.

“We also seize this opportunity to praise the courage, professionalism and sense of purpose of the Nigerian Police, the State Security Service, the Nigerian Civil Defence Corps and other Security agencies for their commitment at ensuring peace for all in Ondo State. We ask them not to relent and we ask the people of the state to remain vigilant”, he added.

He therefore enjoined all the people of the state to pray fervently as they prepare for the celebration of light over darkness, truth over falsehood and good over evil in due course.

Ondo Progressives group berates guber candidates 15/2/2009

Ondo State Progressives Coalition (PC), a body comprising all opposition partiesand groups, has dismissed the recent statement by the gubernatorial candidates of some opposition parties that defected to the PDP in 2007 as “the mendacity of a league of failed but greedy gubernatorial pawns in defence of the collapsed government of Olusegun Agagu on sundry issues.

“We see the desperation exhibited by these political turncoats and mercenaries in openly twisting issues and facts to suit their selfish interests, as proof that the Agagu government will stop at nothing to save its sinking ship for the benefit of the greedy parasites that have rendered Ondo numb under his wasteful regime”, the group stated.

In a release in Akure, signed by the group’s Director Media & Research, Bola Ilori, Chairman of PC, Niran Jogbodo and Chairman of Ondo State CNPP, Ayo Isijola, the coalition said the manner the failed gubernatorial candidates went about manipulating issues on Ondo State shows that greed could land one in an embarrassing slavery and when it does, truth is bound to suffer irreparable damage.

It advised “the political renegades” that have been recruited to honour the Agagu parody for their meal tickets to know that the interests of the long-suffering Ondo people would never be suppressed for their narrow and selfish interests.

“It is apparent that this league of political prostitutes was given a condition to put up the kind of silly defence they put for Agagu in their paid statement in exchange for the horrible mess of porridge that informed their political flirting.

“It is apparent that they decided to append their name to that bundle of convenient lies to satisfy the rumblings of their stomach for which they elected to pawn away their honour and devour the meat of treachery.

“We won’t be led to believe that these hirelings do not know that all they said in their so-called statement, probably scripted and paid for from the Ondo Government House was a mere hogwash and hollow recitations of Agagu’s tepid propaganda. We believe that the stirring of their stomachs must have led them into this misadventure.

The group opined the the governor’s decision to go to appeal after the universally-lauded and thorough judgment of the Ondo tribunal, was merely buying time to carry out “unholy and corrupt acts” such as the contract bazaar for which the EFCC stopped him on his tracks.

“He was not doing it because he believed that the world would accept he won an election where palm kernels, different world personages such as Mike Tyson and objects voted for him. In coming out with spurious stories of performance after he had been thrown out by the elections tribunals and he went of spending spree, the purveyors of these falsehood are taking Ondo people and indeed all Nigerians who know about the preening going on in Ondo under Agagu for fools.

“Because they must quell the rumblings of their stomach, these politicians of fortune are twisting issues and desperately engaging in a campaign of calumny against Dr Olusegun Mimiko. We want to assure them that they will fail in their desperate mission because the Ondo people do not need political sell-outs and infidels to tell them what their interests are.

“We want to warn Agagu and the prostituting politicians that flock around him for morsels of their daily bread that soon and very soon, they will have no further hiding place. The earlier they start preparing for life in political limbo, the better for them. The Ondo people who have been suffering the scorching heat of Agagu’s bad government since 2003 shall run rejoice. We want to let the six politicians of the stomach know that their commission will soon come to and end as the new Ondo will have no room for the kind of opportunistic move they made after betraying their respective parties’ trust. We want to let them know that the new Ondo under Dr Olusegun Mimiko will be made to work for the people of Ondo and not for a few greedy politicians and their hirelings.”

MY PEOPLE, I FEEL COMPELLED TO SHARE EVERY SINGLE WORDING OF MARTIN LUTHER’S KING WITH YOU ALL. I BEG YOU TO START STUDYING IT BIT BY BIT. I ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO PRINT IT OUT AND READ IT AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE. VERY SOON, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, WE SHALL HAVE THE CAUSE TO STUDY THIS DREAM INDEPTH AND FASHION A NEW ONDO STATE FROM IT. I AM CONVINCED THAT OBAMA MUST HAVE STUDIED THIS DREAM A LOT, OBAMA HENCE IS A VICTOR. HE USED ONE OF THE MANY RIGHT TOOLS OF GOVERNANCE. WE CAN ALSO GAIN A LOT FROM THIS DREAM. IT WILL CHANGE OUR THINKING AND ASSIST US FASHION A NEW ONDO STATE WHERE OUR GOVERNOR OLUSEGUN MIMIKO’S GOVERNANCE WILL BE MADE EASIER. COLLECTIVE , IDENTICAL AND UNANIMOUS THINKING WILL WIN THE DAY. FOR GONE WILL BE THE OLD ONDO STATE WHERE LOOTING AND STEALING AND BACKBITING AND BLACKMAILING WAS THE ORDER OF THE DAY. SIT BACK AND READ MARTIN LUTHER’S DREAM, WHICH SHOULD BE A NIGERIAN DREAM, AND AN ONDO STATE DREAM:

Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I Have a Dream”
delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: “For Whites Only.” We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”¹

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest — quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”2
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day — this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim’s pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!3

PEACE MY PEOPLE. I SHALL BE BACK

MY PEOPLE, I HAVE A DREAM. A DREAM OF AN ONDO STATE UNDER DR OLUSEGUN MIMIKO. A DREAM THAT WILL BECOME REALITY THIS WEEK. A DREAM THAT WILL SEND ONDO STATE PEOPLE INTO A VICTORIOUS AND THANKFUL ROAR. A DREAM THAT WILL SEND THE VANQUISHED SCUTTLING INTO THE NEAREST HOLES.

I HAVE A DREAM
A DREAM THAT WILL REWRITE THE ONDO STATE HISTORY, A DREAM THAT WILL BRING RELIEF TO THE POOR AND WEARY. A DREAM THAT WILL HELP POSTERITY, A DREAM THAT WILL DEVELOP MILLIONS.

I HAVE A DREAM
A DREAM THAT WILL BRING IN FRESH IDEAS, A DREAM THAT WILL ENCOURAGE MANY TO INVEST IN ONDO STATE (MONEY, TALENT, INTELLECT AND WHAT HAVE YOU). A DREAM THAT WILL ENCOURAGE OUR CHILDREN TO BECOME GOOD LEADERS, A DREAM THAT WILL WIPE OUT HOOLIGANISM AND PEOPLE WORSHIP.

I HAVE A DREAM
A DREAM THAT WILL PUT A CHECK A FULL STOP TO BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION, A DREAM THAT WILL PUT BEHIND BARS THE EVIL LOOTERS, A DREAM THAT WILL END SYCOPHANCY, A DREAM THAT WILL DEVELOP THE INTELLECT OF THE PEOPLE.

I HAVE MANY MORE DREAMS
DREAMS THAT I WILL BE SHARING WITH OTHERS WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT, DREAMS THAT WILL MAKE US SO SO PROUD TO BE ONDO STATE PEOPLE, DREAMS THAT WILL MAKE GOVERNANCE IN ONDO STATE ENVIABLE, LOVABLE AND JUSTIFYABLE.

STAY WITH ME AND ENJOY OMOTAYLOR’S DREAM.
CAN THIS DREAM BECOME REALITY?
WELL YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION.

PEACE MY PEOPLE, OMOTAYLOR WILL BE BACK.