Deputy Director-General of Governor Ibikunle Amosun Campaign Organisation, Bisi Adegbuyi, said the election of the Ogun helmsman at the general elections has demystified godfatherism in Ogun State.
In an interview with Daily Independent, the lawyer said the rigid posture of Osoba in Ogun affairs made him leave the APC.
He said: “I respect Aremo Olusegun Osoba a great deal but with due respect to him, he has succeeded in demystifying himself politically and I feel very pained. The victory of Amosun would have ordinarily belonged to Osoba.”
“People would have been congratulating him that he has done it again. ‘You made him governor in 2011, you have given him another second term’. I don’t want to get involved but I strongly believe that Osoba’s decision to quit APC was misconceived.
“Now we have seen that a governor who came into office about four years ago could win on his own without any godfather, could return about 17 members of the House of Assembly out of 26, could return two senators.
“I am glad that has been done and we now know the leader of the progressives in Ogun state. The elections have decided that. It is no longer the Ijebu- Igbo mafia, it is no longer some old men who before now will say ‘that person should become the next governor’”. On his message to the opposition parties who contested against the governor, Adegbuyi said it was time they supported “the people’s choice if indeed what we are interested in is the development of Ogun state. Enough of politics and hate campaigns. There is so much work to be done.”
“Also, the icing on the cake is that the great apostle of change, Muhammadu Buhari has been given the mandate to lead Nigeria for another four years. So, expectations are high. But I believe that APC, as a political party is equal to the task. This is not the time for governance of the run-of –the-mill politicians.
“It is the time for the people who share the philosophy, orientation and belief of Buhari that change is possible in Nigeria and that we have no business with poverty. All I can say is that the best is yet to come.” Commenting on the victory of the APC in the just concluded presidential election, he said the alliance of the North and South birthed the success.
“I remembered I granted an interview a year ago and I need to revisit it now. I said then that Nigerians will hold Buhari and Tinubu responsible if PDP wins in 2015
“I said then that they must resolve their differences and a forge a very strong alliance that would produce a political combination between the North West and the South West.
“I am glad they heeded my advice and then APC was born. Now the election has come and PDP has lost. I have been proven right.”
Advising the APC to learn from the mistakes that the PDP made that resulted to its rejection, Adegbuyi noted that there was a major disconnect between PDP government and the governed.
“We all know the records of the PDP in 16 years. They could not generate more than 4,500 megawatts in 16 years. How many units of houses did they build? Insecurity became the order of the day. Education was in tatters, unemployment reached an alarming high.
“Therefore for APC to endear itself as a political party that represents change that has brought hope to Nigeria, they must look into why the PDP failed and then get the brightest people to think out of the box. Governance is not rocket science. We know how to generate employment. We know how to turn around the agricultural sector.
“I was nominated by Governor Amosun as a delegate to the national conference. My membership of land tenure and boundary adjustment committee opened my eyes to lot inadequacies in the land management of Nigeria. Without proper land management, agriculture can never be sustained and developed.
“All over the world, there are three major ways of generating employment. One, embark on massive construction of houses, embark on revolutionized agriculture, embark on massive manufacturing endeavours.
“If you all of these three, the value chain, the multiplier effect of the three will create employment. How do you get money to finance all of these? Block all the leakages!”
“I am happy all of these are contained in the manifesto of the APC and I believe at the appropriate time, we will be called upon to come and demonstrate all what we have been saying publicly.”
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