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•State of Osun PDP Legal Adviser, Barrister John Abidoye (with APC flag); his wives, Kemi (3rd left); Lola (5th right); State of Osun AllProgressives Congress (APC) Acting Chairman, Elder Lowo Adebiyi (5th left); Chief of Staff to State of Osun Governor, Alhaji GboyegaOyetola (2nd left); State Acting APC PRO, Apostle Samson Oyebode (3rd right); State Acting APC Women Leader, Mrs KudiratFakokunde (right) and other party stalwarts during the decampment of Barrister Abidoye from the PDP to APC with fanfare inOsogbo last Tuesday. Photo: GBENGA ADENIYI

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How PDP Members AttackedThemselves Over Election Booty

Osun PDP In Disarray AsLegal Adviser Joins APC

Jonathan‘ll Lose In2015-Adekilekun

2015: PDP InFresh Plan ToUnseatAregbesola With10 Lawmakers

Modakeke APCPasses Vote OfConfidence InOnigbinde AsParty Leader

The victory of the AllProgressives Con-gress, APC in lastSaturday’s gubernato-rial election in OsunState reinforces theopposition against aseemingly rampagingpolitical train ofPresident GoodluckJonathan

It was a welcomerelief to thenational leader ofthe APC, AsiwajuBola AhmedTinubu.Those who sawhim yesterdaymorning astheresult of the OsunState governorship

Osun and 2015: Thegame changer

poll was declared saidthey saw a man greatlyrelieved but reinforcedfor the battleahead.Besides being anelixir to the

opposition that wasbadly traumatized bydefeat in Ekiti amonth ago, theOsunvictory acts as aspring for

the oppositiontowards the 2015presidential prizethat was being con-sidered a foregonebooty of the rulingPeoples DemocraticParty, PDP. Themessage yesterdaywas that 2015 is still

within play. Despiteearlier claims by the APCthat the presidency wasdetermined to rig theelection in favour of thePDP’s Senator IyiolaOmisore, the outcome ofthe election showed thelimit to which PresidentGoodluck Jonathanwould go in forcing hiswill on the electorate.

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•WHO WILL SAFE THIS LITTLE BOY FROM HER MOTHER? Two married women fighting at Akindeko Market,Osogbo, State of Osun, recently. Photo: GBENGA ADENIYI.

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How PDP Members Attacked Themselves Over Election BootyBy KAZEEM MOHAMMED

FRESH facts emerging have revealed how the PeoplesDemocratic Party (PDP) members are attackingthemselves over the money released during the

August 9, 2014 governorship election in the State of Osunand blaming the attack on members of All ProgressivesCongress (APC).

It would recalled that thePDP had recently raised afalse alarm, alleging thatAPC members have beenphysically attacking itsmembers across the state.

It has now beenauthoritatively discoveredthat out of the N1 million perpolling units, allocated andhanded over to PDP leaders

to induce voters at the rateof N5,000 or N10,000 pervoter in each unit, maximumof 10 per cent of the moneywas shared to inducevoters in many of the units.

Sources further revealedthat some of the partyleaders did not bother toshare the money, thinkingthat the federal power that

would be used to rig the pollwould cover their tracks.

When it was time to sharethe booty among the PDPleaders, it was gathered thatdisagreement set in, as someof the prominent members,who were privy to thenumber of voters inducedwith money, disagreed withthe number claimed by theirleaders.

They also kicked againstthe sharing formularproposed to be adopted bysome of their leaders, assource revealed that somemembers insisted that sincethe money was meant for

election, it should be sharedequally.

This, the source said,snowballed into crisis,leading to a free-for-allamong themselves, but theintervention of state partyleaders curtailed the matterat that level.

However, the issuereverberated again when adirective came from thedefeated PDP governorshipcandidate, Senator IyiolaOmisore, that each of theparty leaders should comeand account for the moneythey have collected.

It was gathered that when

the leaders of the team insome of the units called thearrowheads in theinducement saga together todiscuss how to refund themoney that have beenshared among themselves,some party members kickedagainst such move.

Why some insisted thatthe party leaders, who hadtaken the largest share ofthe booty should take careof the refund, some noted

that it was a “politicalmoney” that cannot berefunded.

In the process,disagreement set in againand eventually resulted toparty members sponsoringattacks on themselves.

It was learnt that in someof the units and wards, theparty leaders showed morematurity, as they did notallow the matter to lead toattacks on members.

Lawyer Expresses Concern Over Creation OfNew Polling Units

By KEHINDE AYANTUNJI

A legal practitioner, Barrister Akin Bajepade, hasexpressed concern over the timing of the creationof new polling units by the Independent National

Electoral Commission (INEC).

The legal icon doubtedthe ability of the INEC tocomplete the process aheadof the 2015 generalelections, while speaking toOSUN DEFENDER on theproposed creation of thenew polling units.

According to Bajepade,creation of new pollingunits by INEC was longoverdue, considering theincrease in the population ofthe voters at the pollingunits, which maydisenfranchise voters in2015.

He said: “INEC hasignored this responsibilityfor a very long time. Whatthey always consider is thepopulation, landscape butin this circumstance, whatINEC should take intoconsideration is the voters’register, if it is in doubt ofthe general populationfigure.

“The implication of notcreating new polling units isthat in some units now,where INEC registered over4000 voters, with the votinghours and process, it wouldbe impossible for the 3000eligible voters to vote andthey may bedisenfranchised, which isagainst the law and theConstitution.

“To ensure that the rightof the people to vote is

protected, it is important tocreate more polling units,except that the INEC mustbe very careful not to allowpoliticians to abuse andtake the advantage to rigbecause the more pollingunits you get, the moreballot papers you get. Istrongly believe creation isnecessary to strengthenelectoral process.”

Bajepade further stated

that he was not surprised bythe South and Northdichotomy introduced in thecreation of the new pollingunits, adding that theregional political completionpreceded this period and itmust be expected at anypolitical level in Nigeria.

He however, expressedconcern over the time of thecreation, considering theprocess involved, saying thisis not the best time to createmore units.

He added: “The taskbefore the INEC is that theymust convince Nigeriansthat between 2011 and now,

there are more voters, whichrequire more polling unitsand that they have thecapacity to transfer the dataof the voters from theexisting units to the newunits.”

He said INEC has lessthan six months to conductgeneral elections and thisprocess may be difficult,considering the level ofeducation, noting that theremust be serious educationfor the people and shouldbe done three monthsbefore the election, for thevoters to verify theirrecords.

2015: PDP In Fresh Plan To Unseat AregbesolaWith 10 Lawmakers

STILL suffering from the pains of losing to GovernorRauf Aregbesola in the August 9, 2014 governorshipelection in the State of Osun, some leaders of the

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Senator IyiolaOmisore have devised a new political strategy to unseatAregbesola.

The new plan, tagged:“Aregbesola’s 2015 Exit”was aimed at impeachingAregbesola after the 2015general elections,according to someimpeccable sources withinthe PDP.

OSUN DEFENDER wasreliably informed thatOmisore, who lost by over110,000 votes toAregbesola in the election,was yet to give up on hisschemes to frustrate

Aregbesola, using thefederal might and otheravailable means.

According to the sources,the PDP and Omisore wereaiming to win 10 seats in theState House of Assemblyelection come 2015.

If their plan is successful,there is a grand plan for the10 PDP lawmakers to beginimpeachment move againstAregbesola, a month aftertheir inauguration, said thesources.

The sources confided inthe medium that the PDPhas already written what itcalled “grand ofimpeachment ofAregbesola” which wouldbe given to the electedlegislators of the partyimmediately they win theelection.

The 10 PDP lawmakershave also being given themandate to work on someAPC legislators for possiblecompromise, and if theycould not gain any of theAPC lawmakers, they wouldstill proceed on theimpeachment move.

According to thesources, the impeachmentplan and the election of the10 PDP House of Assemblycandidates would be fundedby the presidency.

The PDP is expecting to

win the House of Assemblyelection in all the eight localgovernment council areas,where Omisore won in thegovernorship election, witha calculation to win theAtakumosa-East and WestState constituencies.

It was also gathered thatthe PDP has reportedlyformed a committee with themandate of approachingsome APC members, whomay be aggrieved on theselection of candidates forthe 2015 general elections.

The sources said: “Webelieve that the APC wouldimpose candidates in thecoming 2015 generalelections and some peoplewould be aggrievednaturally on that. We haveput up a committee headedby a former leader of theAPC, with the sole objective

of wooing the APCaggrieved members to thePDP.

“If the APC imposescandidates, we would givethe aggrieved APC membersthe opportunity to contestunder our party. Thestrategy is: the former APCmembers would have theirfollowers and sympathizersthat will vote for them, whilethe PDP will supply a blockvotes.

“The last governorshipelection has shown us ourstrength and we are workingto maintain it, alongside ourstructures. If care is nottaken, the PDP may havemajority in the House ofAssembly and it will be thebeginning of the end forAregbesola. The plan tounseat him at all cost is stillreal.”

Modakeke APC PassesVote Of Confidence In

Onigbinde As Party Leader

DAZZLED by his superlative performance, Modakekechapter of All Progressives Congress(APC), haspassed a vote of confidence in the leadership of

former coach of Super Eagles, High Chief AdegboyeOnigbinde, in the community.

Onigbinde, who is thechairman of the APCLeaders’ Forum in thecommunity, has increasedthe fortune of the partysince he took over themantle of leadership of theparty in Modakeke.

Rising from a crucialstakeholders’ meeting of theparty in Osogbo onMonday, the chieftains ofthe party in the communityin a communiqué pledgedtheir absolute loyalty to theleadership of the high chief.

The APC stakeholderswere appreciative of theefforts of the members of theparty and their supportersfor securing victory for there-election of Ogbeni RaufAregbesola, the governor ofthe State of Osun, in theAugust 9, 2014governorship election.

According to thecommuniqué, which wassigned by no fewer than 19chieftains of the party, thepositive role being playedby the palace and leadershipof Modakeke ProgressiveUnion (MPU) to ensurerestoration and sustenanceof developmental politics inthe town is a welcomedevelopment.

It was also the resolve ofthe APC stakeholders thatpolitics of bitterness,violence, self-enrichment,non-respect for obaship

institution and eldersshould take a flight from thecommunity, as such wouldbe resisted with all legalmeans.

It was also spelt out thatthe days of politicalcontractors, who front forpoliticians in neighbouringtowns to disturb the peaceof the town, are over.

The APC stakeholderstherefore, appealed to all themembers of the party andsupporters to remainsteadfast in the collectiveefforts of the APC-ledgovernment in the state toattract more developmentalprojects to the town.

Some of the party leaderswho signed thecommuniqué were: ChiefAdetunji Wahab(Olowoasalu); ComradeAdegboye Amos, APCchairman; Pastor TayoKehinde; Mr Kola Olabisi;Mrs Sakunle Idowu,Women Leader; Mr BanjiOyewole; Hon OyedeleOlusesan; ComradeOlonade Olufemi; HonYinka Ajibade.

Others were Mr AmolaDixon Abiodun;Abdulwaheed Ariyo; HonGoke Adebowale; Mr AtitebiIsiaka; Hon Lasisi SaibuAdewole; ComradeOyebamiji Wasiu; HonKareem-Ismaeel A.; AdejareLateef, Local Youth Leader

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• Ikirun to Obaagun road constructed under the administration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola, as captured by ourphotographer, GBENGA ADENIYI, recently.

Osun Poll: DSS, Nigeria Army, Police In N1.5bn Suit OverIllegal Arrest, Detention

By ISMAEEL UTHMAN

THE fallout of activities of some security agents havebegun to tell on the Department of State Security, thePolice and the Nigeria Army, as the security agencies

have been slammed with N1.5 billion suit by someindividuals, who were detained during the August 9, 2014governorship election in the state.

Fifteen out of the hundredsof persons arrested, detainedand harassed during thegubernatorial election haveapproached a Federal HighCourt in Osogbo for theenforcement of theirfundamental human rights,describing their arrest anddetention by the DSS officers,

policemen and soldiers asillegal.

The detainees, on Monday,filed an application forenforcement of fundamentalhuman rights at the FederalHigh Court, against the DSS,NPF and the Army.

Among other prayers, theplaintiffs sought for an order

of the court, compelling therespondents to pay them asum of N100 million each asdamages, and at the same time,tender public apology to them.

The four reliefs sought bythe applicants were containedin an originating summonbrought pursuant to Sections34, 35 and 46 of the 1999Constitution of the FederalRepublic of Nigeria, Articles 5,6, 12, 13 and 20 of the AfricanCharter on Human and PeopleRights, Cap A9 Laws of theFederation of Nigeria, 2004 andOrder II Rule 1, 2 and 3 of the

Fundamental Right(Enforcement Procedure)Rules, 2009.

The applicants in the firstrelief sought the declaration ofthe court that their arrest anddetention wasunconstitutional; illegal, nulland void and in violation oftheir right to personal liberty.

While arguing that theirarrest and detention preventedthem from exercising theirfranchise in the August 9, 2014governorship poll and vote forcandidates of their choice, theplaintiffs also prayed the courtto declare that their arrest andmanhandling by officers of the

respondents constitute aviolation of their freedom ofdignity and inhuman.

One of the plaintiffs, HighChief Sola Ogunsanya, who isthe Regent of Iloko-Ijesa and aregistered voter, in an affidavitsworn to in support of theapplication, claimed that hewas arrested on August 8,2014 by armed officers of therespondents in his house,while others were arrested onAugust , 2014 at Iloko-Ijesaand Ijebu-Jesa.

Ogunsanya maintained thatafter the arrest, he and twoother complainants were takento the DSS office in Osogboand Iloko Police Post, wherethey were detained, strippednaked and ordered to lie downfor several hours in the openwithout allowing them accessto their family.

The regent said: “We werebeaten, tortured andhumiliated, as some of theofficers were cursing, abusingand querying their effronteryto support the candidature ofGovernor Rauf Aregbesola ofthe All Progressives Congress(APC).”

He stated that throughoutthe period of their detention,they were not accused ofcommitting any offence,

except supporting Aregbesola,adding that they (the detainees)were later released at about 6pmof August 9 without beingcharged to court for any offence.

Ogunsanya declared in theaffidavit that the arrest anddetention contravened the orderof an Osogbo High Courtrestraining the respondentsfrom engaging in arbitrary arrestof members of APC and otherinnocent residents of the state.

He averred that unlessappropriate sanction is metedon the respondents, suchharassment, intimidation,detention, and impunity againstmembers of the society and theapplicants would becomerampant.

The plaintiffs maintainedthat their inhuman treatmentconstituted gross violation oftheir fundamental human rightsunder Sections 34 and 35 of theconstitution.

The aim of the arrest,according to the application,was to terrorize the applicantsand restrict their movement inan atmosphere dominated bysheer state terror and completeimpunity which is totallyunjustifiable in law.

Other plaintiffs include:Isaac Onajide, Babatola Segun,Ogungbangbe Suliman,Obayemi Ayo, AwopetuOdunayo, Esther Olamijulo andeight others.

Osun Election: Group Thanks Osun PeopleFor Standing For Truth

A non-governmental group, Oranmiyan Supports Grouphas thanked the people of Osun for standing solidlybehind their governor, Ogbeni Adesoji Aregbesola and

for standing for the truth in the recently concludedgubernatorial election in the state.

The leader of the group, Mr.Ayo Akinola, who stated thisin an interaction with newsmenin Osogbo, the state capital,added that the people of Osunhave demonstrated theirpolitical maturity even in theface of what he referred to asintimidation and recklessinducement by reactionaryagents who, he said, invaded thestate with the evil aim offorceful take-over as they didin the past.

He described the stategovernor, Ogbeni Aregbesola asan Ajagungbade, “one who goesto war to get enthroned”.

Explaining this assertion,Akinola stated in the interaction,“If you cast your mind back to2007 gubernatorial election inOsun, it was really a war ofsorts between him and the thengovernor, who was fraudulentlydeclared as winner in amassively rigged election.Aregbesola went to legal warthrough the tribunals and thecourts for close to three and ahalf years. I was actually one ofthose who opined that this manshould shield his sword and waitfor the fast approaching nextelection. He fought as if his lifedepended on it, even when itseemed then as if it was a lostbattle. But because he is adogged fighter who never givesup, he won and was sworn in.

“Also, in the just-concludedelection, Aregbesola was forcedto war because agents of stateand the opposition were benton not allowing him for a second

term despite his sterlingperformance in all indices. In anormal situation, this manneeded not do rigorous campaignjudging by his credentials,known even to the blind. Butwar he was destined to go if hemust continue for the secondterm. Everything indicated thatif he refuses to go to war withthese reactionary forces, hemight be shamed out of

government house. So, there wasthe need for him for a secondwar. This time around, it was awar he fought through rigorouscampaign and strong will of notleaving anything to chance. Aneighbouring state had recentlybeen captured and it must notbe his turn. He fought and hewon. This is why our group isdescribing him as theAjagungbade.

“While many governors andeven our president got theirmandates on the platter of gold,with little or no serious strugglesand going down memory lanefrom 2007 down to 2010 and in

Group Urges APC,Aregbesola To Challenge

Ife Zone Election ResultBy KAZEEM MOHAMMED

A socio-political organisation, Osun Good GovernanceForum (OSGF), has advised the All ProgressivesCongress (APC) and Governor Rauf Aregbesola to

challenge the result of the August 9, 2014 governorshipelection in Ife Federal Constituency before an ElectionPetition Tribunal.

this 2014 election, it is notdifficult to deduce that this manis destined to wear the gloriouscrown through struggles whichwe call war. This and the 2007,through 2010 episodes are thereasons we refer to him asAjagungbade.”

While congratulating the goodpeople of Osun, especiallythose “who voted for andsupported Aregbesola for thesecond term in office, like ourown group- the OranmiyanSupports Group”, Akinolaurged other present and futuregood leaders, including theyouths to emulate him and goto war, like him, if necessary, toget what truly they deserve.

The group in a statementsigned by its coordinator,Adebayo Abagun, said thenumber of votes polled by thePeoples Democratic Party(PDP) candidate, IyiolaOmisore, in the zone did notreflect the wish of the peopleof the area.

Omisore won the electionin all the four local governmentcouncil areas in Ife Zone inaddition to Isokan,Boluwaduro, Ayedire andOdo-Otin Local GovernmentCouncil Areas, whileAregbesola won in other 23council areas.

According to the statement,the report from members of thegroup from the area revealedthat the residents of the area,especially in Ife South and EastCouncil areas, which are largelypopulated by rural dwellers,were not allowed to cast theirvotes freely.

“The report we receivedfrom our people in the ruralareas in Ife FederalConstituency showed that theelectorate were not allowed tocast their vote freely, as againstwhat we witnessed in otherparts of the state.

“In the rural areas of Ife-South, Ife-East, Ife-Central andIfe-North Local GovernmentCouncil areas, voters, especiallyknown members of APC werechased out of queues and werenot allowed to return.

“PDP leaders, who ledsoldiers and thugs to pollingunits in the area, werereportedly heard warning thosewho didn’t want to vote forPDP to vacate the polling unitsor had their finger-cut off. Thisforced the largest number ofvoters to vacate the units.

“This is against the tenet offree and fair poll and it shouldbe challenged before an electiontribunal to serve as deterrent infuture,” he said.

Noting that the group wasnot surprised that Aregbesolaemerged the winner of theelection because he has won thehearts of the people through hisdevelopmental programmes andpolicies, it said that it was onlysurprised that Omisore couldpoll such votes he had.

Congratulating Aregbesolafor his victory at the election,the group urged the governor toreciprocate the massivesupport of the people for himduring the election by bringingmore development to the state.

Osun PDP In Disarray As Legal Adviser Joins APCBy KAZEEM MOHAMMED

THE fold of Osun chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has further depleted, as its Legal Adviser, PrinceJohn Abolarinwa Abidoye, crossed over to the All

Progressive Party (APC).Abidoye, as at the time of his

defection on Tuesday, was theSecretary of PDP’s LegalCommittee, compiling theparty’s petition to be filedbefore an Election PetitionTribunal on the August 9governorship election.

He hinged his cross-over toAPC on the outstandingperformance of Governor RaufAregbesola, who is strivingdiligently to reposition Osun, tobe ranked one of the best amongthe comity of state, in the nation.

He said the result of August 9governorship election in the statewas a true reflection of thepeoples wishes and aspiration.

On the petition of the PDPagainst the August 9 election inthe state, Abidoye said there isnothing to be feared about thepetition because the PDP isboasting to reclaim victorythrough the tribunal.

He said that the facts andfigure upon which the tribunalwould base its decision hasshown that Aregbesola won thepoll convincingly, saying that thepeople of the state have spokenwith one voice that they wantedAregbesola for another term.

“The people of Osun trulyvoted for Aregbesola. Across thestates, they spoke loud andclear. They have demonstratedthat they wanted continuity;they wanted development.

“There is even no fear aboutthe election tibunal because thecourt relies on facts and figuresand the fact and figure on groundshow that Aregbesola won theelection convincingly. No onecan manufacture facts andfigures.

“Progressiveness in one wayor the other has scored thegovernment of the day high inevery sphere of life, right fromeducation to infrastructure,

human development to capitaldevelopment. All these informedmy decision that the time hascome for me and my followersto switch over to the party”,Abidoye stressed.

Explaining why he did notleave the PDP before theelection, he said: “It is normalfor a principled politician to waittill the appropriate time beforeswitching over.

“If I had switched over beforethe election, some people mightbe insinuating that it was becausewe have seen the handwriting onthe wall that the PDP was likelyto lose. But we believe that weshould stay back and see it tothe end”, he added.

He noted that his coming overto the APC should be seen as anadded strength to the party inthe state.

Presenting the APC flag to thedefector, the Acting statechairman, Elder AdelowoAdebiyi, expressed optimismthat the coming in of newmembers would add to thestrength of the party.

Earlier in his remark, the APCSecretary, Prince Gboyega

Famoodun, described BarristerAbidoye as a politician of aproven integrity.

Famoodun said the comingover of the former PDP LegalAdviser is a right decision as hispresence in the progressive willhelp his political and legal career.

He said: “Prince Abidoye isone of those who believe indevelopment of the state. Hebelieves in the charismaticleadership of Governor RaufAregbesola.

“He believes in the truth. Heis a politician of proven record.He is coming over to the rightparty. He is coming to theprogressive camp; coming to thelight from the darkness.

“He is convinced on the goodwork Aregbesola is doing. Hiscoming over is a testimony tothis effect.”

The Chief of Staff to theGovernor of Osun, AlhajiGboyega Oyetola, called othertruth-loving, development-inclined and lover of the state,who are currently idling in PDPto come over to the party thatis genuinely interested in thedevelopment of the state.

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•STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE: Two youngmen pushing a wheelbarrow in Osogbo, recently. Photo: GBENGA ADENIYI.

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Jonathan ‘ll Lose In 2015 - AdekilekunBy KEHINDE AYANTUNJI

AN All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain inEde, Pharmacist Musliudeen Adekilekun, said lastThursday that the best thing Nigerians could do by

next year to save Nigeria is to vote out President GoodluckJonathan in the fast-approaching 2015 general elections.

Adekilekun stated thatshould Jonathan continueas the President of theFederal Republic of Nigeria,there is a great danger, whichmay consume the wholecountry as a result ofcorruption and impunity ofthe Peoples DemocraticParty-led currentadministration in thecountry.

He described Jonathan asthe worst president sinceindependence of Nigeria in1960, while speaking toOSUN DEFENDER on thej u s t - c o n c l u d e dgovernorship election in thestate.

He described the victory

of Governor RaufAregbesola as well-deserved and rewards ofgood performance, sayingthe governor has raised thebar of governance beyondtokenism.

Adekilekun identifiedshortfall in the federalallocation as one of the majorchallenges of the currentadministration in the stateand blamed the FederalGovernment for itsinsensitivity to the plight ofthe people.

He said:”The fallingrevenue is an headache forsome of us who are friendsof development in Osun andother parts of the country. I

will say this is the worstgovernment sinceindependence. There is astanding agreement thatfrom the federal purse,certain amount should begiven to Osun on monthlybasis.

“Because the governorof a state belongs to theopposition party, youdecided to deny him someof his rights. What type ofdemocracy are wepractising? BecauseAregbesola is an APC man,you decided to punish theteachers, civil servants,school children amongothers.

Adekilekun added that hewas optimistic that thepeople of Nigeria wouldvote out PeoplesDemocratic Party (PDP) in2015.

According to him: “I am

confident to say thatJonathan will lose nextyear’s presidential election.By next year, it would berecorded in Nigerian historythat the ruling party handsover to a democraticallyelected candidate of theopposition. PDP wouldhand over to APC. I don’t

know what Jonathan willuse to campaign in theSouth West.

“The same president wasreported to have said that ifthe people of Osun voted forOmisore, he would developOsun. That was an insultthat because the people ofa federated unit in a republic

presided over by electedpresident did not vote forhis party, they don’tdeserve the attention of thefederal government. Maybehe has forgotten that he isthe President of FederalRepublic of Nigeria and notPresident of PDP,”Adekilekun said.

Aregbesola’s Victory AttributedTo Love, Commitment

THE victory recorded by Governor Rauf Aregbesola ofthe State of Osun in the August 9, 2014 governorshipelection has been attributed to the show of love and

commitment by the people of the state.

By KAZEEM MOHAMMED

It’s Time To Vote Jonathan Out – Akere

THE 2015 general elections have been described as anopportunity for Nigerians to vote for a better personcapable of driving the anticipated changes of the

teeming masses of the country.This was disclosed by State

of Osun Commissioner forInformation and Strategy, MrSunday Akere, while speakingat a special prayer programmeorganised by an Islamic Groupin the state, Alfathu-L-QuareebMuslim Organisation ofNigeria.

According to the

commissioner, the currentadministration in the countryhas not only disappointedNigerians, but has also shownthat it lacked the wherewithalto bring about the necessarychanges the people desired.

He said the leadership styleof President GoodluckJonathan encouragescorruption, which has been thebane of development in thecountry, adding the countryand its people deserve a betterand focused administrationthat would make the people’sconcern its focus.

He stated that it isunfortunate that the presentadministration in the countryis deliberately mixing politicswith governance, therebyheating the polity ahead of thegeneral elections in the comingyear.

Akere described the cut inthe federal revenue allocationto states of the federation as afraud, describing the excusegiven by the FederalGovernment on oil theft as

silly, saying it has all it takesto curb oil theft.

He decried the deliberatereduction of the statutoryallocation to opposition partystates as a way of discreditingthem before the electorate byensuring that they have no fundto execute developmentalprojects.

He disclosed themilitarisation of the recently-concluded governorshipelection in the state won by theAll Progressives Congress andits candidate, Ogbeni RaufAregbesola, as showing thedesperation of the PDP to winthe 2015 general elections at allcost.

Speaking at the programme,the state Missioners of thegroup, Uztas Jamiu Tajudeendisclosed that the victory ofGovernor Rauf Aregbesola inthe August 9, 2014governorship election wasdivine, describing themilitarisation of the state asinimical to democratic tenets.

He, however, charged theteeming populace, as well aspoliticians in the state tocooperate with the Aregbesola-led administration in its bid tomake the state an Eldorado forall and sundry.

Osun Promises To Support FarmersBy FRANCIS EZEDIUNO

THE State Government of Osun has reiterated itscommitment to the development of the agriculturalsector in a bid to make it profitable to farmers and

provide food for the state.The State Commissioner

for Agriculture and FoodSecurity, Honourable WaleAdedoyin, stated this inOsogbo, the state capitalrecently during a meetingwith members of farm settlersacross the state.

He maintained that thepresent administrationwould continue to supportfarmers by providingnecessary farm inputs andagricultural facilities such asfertilisers, seedlings,chemicals and others atsubsidised rates.

He also added that thegovernment had alsoreduced land use fees toN1000, which would be dueafter 24 years for arable cropsand 49 years for cash crops,stressing that the agreementwas renewable after thespecified years of use.

The commissionerhowever implored the farmsettlers to henceforth ignoreany issue that came to themwithout the authority of hisministry.

In his address, theDirector of AgriculturalServices, Mr. Kola Ajisekola,enjoined all farm settlers toabide by the stategovernment’s agricultural

policy, so as to continueenjoying the dividends ofdemocracy, which theadministration of OgbeniRauf Aregbesola wouldcontinue to deliver.

Responding, the farmer,swho earlier revealed thatthey had benefitted

immensely from the stateg o v e r n m e n t ’ sdevelopmental programmeson agriculture, thanked thegovernor for taking them intoconsideration and aligningmost of his administration’spolicy towards the provisionof food and welfare offarmers.

They called on thecommissioner to assist themwith the necessaryequipment and items neededto make this year’s

harvesting season bountiful.The group was also

thankful to Ogbeni RaufAregbesola for his decisionto rehabilitate and constructnew roads which hadhitherto opened up thehinterland of the state tocommerce.

According to them, withthis development, their farmproduce can now betransported to the citycentres without worry of theproduce perishing, due tolack of preservation.

Osun 2014: DSS, Military NearlyMarred Osun Election - NATA

THE Department of State Security and the militaryhave been accused of almost disrupting the peacefulconduct of the August 9, 2014 gubernatorial election

in the State of Osun.This was disclosed by a

group of artisans, NigeriaAutomobile TechniciansAssociation (NATA), whileaddressing a pressconference by its NationalSecretary, Comrade DavidAjetunmobi in Osogbo.

He said while manyvoters could not find theirnames on the registerprovided by INEC on theelection day, the activities ofthe DSS officers during thepoll gave the agency out as

“anti-democratic”.According to him,

NATA’s election monitoringteam witnessed a situationat a polling unit, where a deafand dumb woman withpermanent voter’s card, wasnot allowed to vote becauseher name was not found onthe register, which resultedin her weeping publicly.

Stating his views on theactivities of the security mendeployed to the state for thepoll, he singled out men of

the DSS for criticism, sayingthe operatives harassedand intimidated voters.

He further condemned theuse of mask by securityoperatives of the DSS duringany election, saying thedevelopment wasuncivilised andundemocratic.

According to him: “INECshould know that theconcept of free and fairelection goes beyond mereballot thumb-printing andavailability of ballot boxes,but also include freemovement.

If not for the resistanceof the people, their willwould have been subverted,

and we have the people tothank for a successfulelection in the state,” headded.

Ajetunmobi called for therecognition of the lastelection day as Liberty Dayin the state, saying: inhonour of those innocentlyharassed during theelection; in honour of thecourageous resistance ofthe great people of Osunagainst colonisation of thestate by anti-democraticforces; in honour of thoseillegally arrested anddetained, in appreciation ofthe belief of the people ofthe State of Osun indemocracy, we call on thestate government and thepeople to declare everyAugust 9 as Liberty Day”.

Senior Special Assistant tothe Governor on CommunityForum, OlatunbosunOyintiloye, made the assertionat the Christ Apostolic Church,Number 1, Ibokun, on Sunday,during a Special ThanksgivingService over Aregbesola’ssuccessful re-election.

He said that if not for theoverwhelming support of thepeople and divine intervention,the victory would have beendifficult to achieve.

Promising that the governorwould reciprocate the gesture,he said that the governor’s re-election has added more to hischallenges to develop the statefurther.

Oyintiloye, who noted thatthe governor places premium onthe love and support shown tohis administration leading to avictorious outing at the poll, henoted that more than the firstterm, the governor would ensureequal distribution of socialamenities and developmentalprojects to all parts of the state.

He further assured that thegovernor would not relent on hiscommitment to make Osun areference point to other statesof Nigeria in terms ofdevelopment.

While soliciting moresupport and prayers of thepeople for the administration inhis second term, the governor’saide said this would furtherstrengthen the administration’sresolve to reform the state.

Also speaking, theAlademure of Ibokun, ObaFestus Awogboro, commendedAregbesola for hisdevelopmental strides,expressing optimism that thesecond term would be better off.

The monarch also laudedOyintiloye for his proactivestance and commitment to theprogressive course, saying thathis good representation hasearned the ancient town a lotfrom the government.

By SHINA ABUBAKAR

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By ISMAEEL UTHMAN

Osun and 2015: The game changer Continued from pg1

Overwhelming presenceThe overwhelming presence of security menin the state in the days ahead of the poll didnot impede the electorate from exercisingtheir will on who governs them. Thatindeed, is a reassuring sign for manyNigerians and the international communitythat the 2015 election could be a free andfair election.Indeed, ahead of the polls last weekend, theAPC and its flag bearer, Aregbesola, had inthe face of the strong presence of securitymen around the state betrayed clear signs ofunease. The APC’s national spokesman,Alhaji Lai Mohammed in statements paintedthe impression of the determination of thepresidency to rig the election in a cleardetermination to reshape the politicalconfiguration of the Southwest ahead of thedecisive 2015 election.Such panic caused the opposition party tosummon all its elected office holders andpolitical appointees from across the countryto show presence in Osun State from lastTuesday as a way of boosting the morale ofits supporters in that state.The PDP’s candidate was also lifted by thepresence of strong detachment of thesecurity forces whose presence helped tosuppress whatever advantages the incum-bency factor would have given toAregbesola.Omisore also had his friends from the Senateincluding Senators Enyininnya Abaribe,Ehigie Uzamere and some others to lift hisheart. But the most decisive factors were thevoters on ground who at the end of voting

on Saturday showed their preference for theincumbent.The outcome was, however, not a rout as theAregbesola camp had predicted it would bewithout rigging. That underscored the agitationamong some PDP loyalists who had sought foran alternative candidate. Omisore, a formerdeputy governor of Osun State had before thiselection been on the winning side of all thegubernatorial elections conducted in OsunState. He was deputy governor to Chief BisiAkande, strongly supported the immediatepast governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola in2003 and 2007, but, however, came short indelivering himself into an office he had in thepast helped others to enter.Though a very lively man with soundeducation, the factors against Omisore weremostly fanned by perceptions about himarising from his trial for the murder of ChiefBola Ige, a former attorney general of thefederation. Omisore who was acquitted ofcomplicity in that murder, however, did littleto clear that perception. Besides, his politicalfoes helped to fan the negative perceptionabout him.Oyinlola, the immediate past governor of thestate who himself had a grudge against thePDP rubbed in the Ige wound on the peoplewhen he questioned why President Jonathanhad surrounded himself with all those who werequestioned over the murder of Ige.“The candidate of the PDP was arrested forkilling Ige. He was arrested and detained. “Thenational secretary of the [PDP], ProfessorWale Oladipo, was also detained in connectionwith the killing. The Minister of PoliceAffairs, Jelili Adesiyan, was also detained.“The chairman of the party in this state,Ayobami Olaoluwa, was also arrested. So, why

is everyone who was in detention givenappointment or put in a position of authority?We need to ask the government,” Oyinlola said.Great minusLinking anyone or party with the death of Igewas a great minus especially given the adorationthat Ige continues to draw from most parts ofthe state. The election was also an opportunityfor political enemies in the Southwest to hit athim. Tinubu had by every indication mounted theplatform of political leadership of the Southwestwith the dominance of his party in five of the sixSouthwest states. After the loss of Ekiti, hispolitical empire was trimmed to four states andthe prospect of losing Osun, had in the last weeksof the campaign become an exciting lure forTinubu bashers in the region.Internal dissentIt was especially so, given that Aregbesola wasgenerally considered the closest of the APCgovernors to Tinubu.The internal dissent to Tinubu in the Southwestwas especially fanned by vestiges of Afenifere,the socio-political organization through whichTinubu, himself emerged as governor of LagosState in 1999. But the former governor’s allegedrole in splintering Afenifere after his emergenceas governor helped to create animosity thattoday irks many Yoruba leaders.Even though many Afenifere leaders did notcome out openly to antagonise Tinubu andAregbesola ahead of the election, some of themwere enthusiastically waiting to celebrate thedownfall of the APC in Osun.Celebrating the downfallAPC leaders who learnt from their laxity in Ekitiwere well prepared for Osun and went out of theway to woo known and unknown enemies. PDPon the other hand did not help its candidate withthe clear animosity towards rebels in the party.

The treatment of Oyinlola and another formergovernor of the state, Senator Isiaka Adelekesubsequently proved to be one of the majorproblems for the PDP on Election Day.Though Oyinlola did not muster enough votesto win his booth, Adeleke’s grip on Ede, one ofthe largest towns in the state helped to firmlydeliver the town to the APC. After being luredinto the PDP gubernatorial contest, theformer governor was allegedly forced out bywhat he claimed to be impediments put on hisway. That was the beginning of his defectionto the APC, a move the PDP would now regretnot to have stopped.One APC source revealed that Adeleke was thecandidate the party feared most could troubleAregbesola. But even after he withdrew, thePDP hierarchy in the state failed to soothehim giving him room to defect. Tinubu, theAPC national leader and the many presidentialaspirants in the party would be very gleefulwith the outcome of the polls. Yesterday, asource said Tinubu was himself very bouncy ashe saw the result as a vindication against theaspiration of his internal foes in the South-west. For the presidential aspirants, theoutcome of the election gives hope that theirpermutations of forging a Southwest andNorthern alliance against the PDP remainsfeasible.For President Jonathan, the permutation mayhave been that whatever loss of support hemay have suffered in the North would begained in the Southwest. Now, it is back tobasics.By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor

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THE rainy season is hereagain and this is surely ananswer to many of our

farmers’ yearnings, who have beenwaiting for the opportunity that theearly rain would provide to starttheir planting.

Of particular interest is theenvironmental effect of the rain,as we are all living witnesses tothe July, 2010 debacle in Osogboand the havoc that rain could causewhen man in his foolishnessdecides to interfere with thewonderful work of nature.

During that sad episode of 2010,the state governor then, could notproffer a solution but all he coulddo was to watch in disgustful aweas lives and properties gave way.

Alas, in came Ogbeni RaufAregbesola and the people of Osunsaw for the very first time the useof dredgers on pontoon dredge therivers and streams throughout thestate.

Not only was this done but thegovernor declared a 90-dayenvironmental emergencythroughout the state and re-inforced both the weekly clean-up

exercise that comes up everyThursday and also the secondSaturday of the month statesanitation exercise.

Not long, the effects were seenround the state when the 2011 rainyseason commenced, there was adrastic reduction in flood occurrencein the state and where it did occur, itwas on a very small scale.

2012 recorded no flooding at all.Even when states like Oyo and

others recorded flooding disastersknocking at their doors, we, in Osun,were sleeping with our two eyesclosed.

We all remember the national flooddisaster of 2012, Osun came cleanwith no recorded incidence and thiscredit must go to both thegovernment of the Ogbeni and to thegood people, who decided to makeit happen by co-operating with him

in carrying out all the environmentalcounsel.

Well, another rainy season is aboutto start and I am using this mediumto call on all the good people of thisstate to always abide by the state’senvironmental laws.

Refuse should not be dumped inopen drainages and streams, as thereare O’Clean Plus waste disposal binsacross the state.

This is indeed a novel achievementbeing the very first in thestate.

Citizens should come outwhen due to participate inthe sanitation exerciseswhenever it is time.

I also like to call on boththe State Commissioner for

Environment, Professor (Mrs)Bukola Oyawole and the SpecialAdviser to the Governor onEnvironment, Mr. Bola Ilori tocontinue in their good works and notto rest on the past achievements.

There is still work to do and moreis still expected of the duo.

•OPEYEMI FATOKUN, Orile-Owu, State of Osun.

OSUN DEFENDER Thursday, August 28, 20146

I Saw Hell During OsunGovernorship Election - Adeleke

FEATURE

The first civilian Governor of Osun State, Isiaka Adeleke in this interview with somejournalists, spoke on his ordeal at the just concluded election in the stateNOW that the APC has won, what

role do you think other parties willplay; are you going to do away

with them totally?We have some reasonable people in the

other parties, especially the PDP. Thereare reasonable people too in the LabourParty, the breakaway party of the PDP inOsun State, and I must confess to youthat most of them will be coming back tothe APC. Some of them are reasonable,and some of them very unreasonable. Theleadership of the PDP in Osun State isvery unreasonable. So, I don’t expectanything good from them right fromOmisore. His deputy is not one of them.He was my boy, the former speaker, heonly joined them because he wantsposition but if you look at thecomposition of those individuals thatconstitute the leadership, Omisore, thePolice Affairs Minister, Jelili Adesiyan,and Gani Olaoluwa, they are not goodpeople. Those are the ones in leadership. Idon’t expect anything good from them butthere are some leaders like the elderstatesman, Alhaji Shuab Oyedokun, OluAlibi, Ebenezar Babatope, and the formerwoman minister, Erelu Obada; these arevery reasonable people, they willcooperate with this government becausewe don’t have any other state other thanOsun. So, whoever is in the saddle isimmaterial. The election has been won andlost. To me, there is no victor, novanquished. Everybody should joinhands with the person that won to movethe state forward.

Why did it take you this long todiscover that you were in the wrongparty?

I am not saying I was in the wrongparty, the day I was crossing over I saidthat the PDP is not that bad but theleadership of the party in Osun State iswhat I cannot understand. I said we stillhave nice people in the PDP. I cannotcondemn PDP because I rose on theplatform of that party to become a senator,Chairman, Governing Council, NigerianExport Promotion Council, Pro-Chancellorand Chairman, Governing Council,University of Calabar. Having got suchpositions on the platform of that party, Icannot say now that the party is totallybad, no, but individuals that hijacked theleadership of the party in the state arebad. Honestly, I cannot work with them. IfI had remained in that party as a coreparty man, I will be forced to work forthem and for the success of that party andI don’t want criminals again in the houseat all.

Are you saying that if the leadership inOsun State changes, you might return tothe PDP?

That condition has not arisen but I amnow in APC and APC has won. Icontributed immensely towards thesuccess of the party. I don’t see myselfgoing back to the PDP now.

Some people are of the opinion thatyou were bought over by the APC.

No, there’s nothing like that. It wasbased on principle. Period! If I wantedanything, I could as well have got it inPDP. If I had stayed with PDP, with thosepeople that have hijacked the party in thestate, definitely, they would have won andbecome this and that. We don’t want suchcharacters in Osun Government House. Iam satisfied. I worked relentlessly andtirelessly for the success of the party andensured that those individuals did not getto government house.

We also learnt that your constituencyvoted massively, what are they going to

get as dividend of democracy for theireffort?

This is not the first time with the Edepeople. When you talk about myconstituency, it is not limited to Edepeople. The federal constituency consistsof four local governments areas that aresolidly behind me in every election. Thisis not the first time. My journey intopolitics started way back in the late 1980sand early 1990s and they have beensupportive and I have been giving backtoo. I have done a lot too. That is whyanytime, I say let’s move, they move withme; when we moved from APP to PDP andthen to APC, if election comes tomorrow,we are going to sweep the whole thing. Ihave always tried to give back, not onlyto my constituency but also to the wholestate. I have done a lot in terms ofscholarships, empowerment, employmentand establishment of factories wherepeople are gainfully employed. Now, manypeople are working in Adeleke University,we have established banks, FirstMerchant Bank, which has become UnityBank, and so on. We are doing a lot forthe people because of the support theyare giving us. As we give, they give back.

Governor Aregbesola is in for a secondterm, what are your expectations?

I describe Aregbesola as a man in ahurry to develop Osun State. He wasdoing a lot in terms of infrastructure andthat is what we needed but Osun is not

Lagos. If you are doing that in Lagoseverybody will be happy because nobodycares about any other thing other thanprovide good roads, electricity, water,security, enabling environment forbusinesses to thrive; that is Lagos but inan agrarian place like Osun-Ekiti if you aredoing that without looking at the humandevelopment angle, they will say youhave not done anything, they won’t evensee it. We have to support him to finishwhat he has started. When he started, therevenue was so high, he had a lot ofmoney to play with then, that was why heembarked on all those projects, the roads,the schools were so fantastic; they weredesigned like elementary schools in theU.S. He has provided school buses, theyhave lunch in the school and they don’thave to go out. That is fantastic. If he cancomplete that throughout the state, he willbe one of the primus inter pares of such inthe country, so we have to give him thatsupport and I know very well that he willdo that.

Are you contented as a kingmaker ordo you intend to contest for politicalposition in the future?

I am still going to run for office by 2015.I am going to the federal. I have alwayssaid I love to go back to the Senate. Ienjoyed the Senate and I will love to goback there to make laws.

So far, how has the Senate fared?We are growing. Right now, I have a lot

of bills that are hanging because I didn’tgo back. There are certain bills that Iwanted to introduce. I am a criminologist.I have a masters degree in criminal justiceand there are certain bills I will beintroducing to the country to improvecriminal justice. I introduced the issue ofplea bargain but a lot of people didn’tunderstand what plea bargain was, itwasn’t that anybody that steals moneywould have to do plea bargain, no, pleabargain is a tool that we use to detectcrime and nip that crime in the bud. Forexample, if three of you conspire tocommit a crime and one of you is caughtand is told that this crime you havecommitted, if convicted, you are going tojail for 10 years, if you do plea bargain andyou let us get the other two, we cansentence you to two years, that is pleabargain; you do that in court. It helps youto detect the crime, arrest the criminalsand all that. Those are the issues of pleabargain. We also have what we callprobation. Our prisons are congested. Ourcriminal justice system is punitive ratherthan correctional. It is not for every crimethat you sentence people to prison.Sometimes, you give them a suspendedsentence. Put them on probation forcertain crimes. That is what probation is.Let them serve the sentence within thecommunity; they do community service. Ifyou put everybody in the prisons, itcriminalises the individuals, there arehardened criminals in there that will teachsomebody who ordinarily wouldn’t havebeen a criminal to be hardened criminal,especially in an impoverished society likeours. Then again, we have what we callparole which is where you serve the restof your sentence within the society. If youare sentenced to a 10-year period, there issomething we call good time-one day offupon your good behaviour. It makes thatperson to be of good behaviour in theprison. The prison should be a place likeoutside the society. We have schools.There are people who have had Ph.D fromthe prison and they are good peopletoday. So if you behave yourselfeveryday and you are sentenced to 10years imprisonment, for everyday youstay in prison and you behave well, wecall it check off system, they take a dayoff which at the end of the day, takes offfive years or two and half years from thesentences. We should introduce certainreforms in the prison system like schoolswhere people can teach.

Let us look at the issue of militarisationduring elections. When it happened inEkiti, the APC shouted, and when ithappened in Osun, they also shouted butthe election turned out free and fair. Whatis your take on this?

What I witnessed in Osun a week to theelection was hell. I thought the SSS aresecret service and are not to be seen.They are supposed to detect crimes andhand over criminals to the police forprosecution but these guys have turnedthemselves into thugs. The first day theycame, I saw them with masks, standing ontop of their vehicles and shootingsporadically in the air into scare people,what was that intended to do? Then, thepolice were not doing much but thesoldiers too joined. We have a barracks inEde. I was confined to Ede after theTuesday mega rally, a couple of days tothe election.

Culled from DAILY INDEPENDENT

•ADELEKE

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•DDTC Middle School under construction at Ijebu-Ijesa in Oriade Local Government Council Area of the State of Osun.

•L.A. Elementary School under construction in Ilesa.

Some Of The New Schools Built By The Governor, State Of Osun, Ogbeni RaufAregbesola, As Captured By Our Cameraman, GBENGA ADENIYI, Recently.

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8 OSUN DEFENDER Thursday, August 28, 2014PHOTOTALKEducation In The State Of Osun Under The Administration Of Governor RaufAregbesola. Photo: GBENGA ADENIYI.

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•Elementary School, Obada, Ede.

•St. Stephen’s Middle School, Modakeke.

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•Some of the dignitaries at the event.

• Newsmen and some Osun worshippers waiting for Arugba Osun.

More Pictures On 2014 Osun Osogbo Festival In Osogbo Recently. Photo: GBENGA ADENIYI.

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•Iyalode of Osogboland, Chief (Mrs) Alake Kolade (middle) and other dignitaries.

•Some of the Osun worshippers going back to their homes.

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•A newly-asphalted road at Oromu, Ilesa.

Some Of The Completed Roads In The State Of Osun Under The AdministrationOf Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

•An ongoing double-lane road at Gbongan in the State of Osun under the administration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola, as captured by our cameraman, GBENGA ADENIYI,recently.

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•A completed road at Heritage Hotel area of the state capital.

11 OSUN DEFENDER Thursday, August 28, 2014INTERVIEW

Why Omisore Lost OsunGovernorship Election - Falana

In this interview with OLUSOLA FABIYI, Mr. Femi Falana, who is a Senior Advocate of Ni-geria, reviews the outcome of the August 9, 2015 governorship election in Osun State.YOU predicted that Governor Rauf

Aregbesola was going to win and hewon. What gave you that confidence?

One didn’t have to be a futurologist toknow that Governor Rauf Aregbesola wasgoing to win the election. He is generallyacknowledged to have taken governance veryseriously. Having been involved in popularstruggles, he has had no difficulty inconnecting with the grass roots. Through hispeople-centred policies he has formed anorganic link with the masses. In spite of thelimited resources of Osun, Ogbeni Aregbesolais trying to address the crisis of poverty andunderdevelopment. Through the socialsecurity scheme, the government pays N10,000 monthly stipend to the elderly andunemployed youths numbering about 20, 000.The school feeding programme, the ‘OponImo’ (tablet of knowledge) revolution, theestablishment of a textile factory for sewingschool uniforms and other programmes haveimpacted positively on the people. Mind you,the government has also constructedthousands of kilometres of roads. The factthat he had endeared himself to the peoplewas the basis of my confidence.

What did Aregbesola do that GovernorKayode Fayemi did not do?

Frankly speaking I would not know. Withrespect, the All Progressives Congress shouldbe held vicariously liable for Fayemi’selectoral defeat in Ekiti State. He is a victim ofthe ideological crisis of the party. Did theparty arm its governors with any pragrammeor code of ethics? The APC claims to be anoffshoot of the Unity Party of Nigeria and thePeoples Redemption Party of the SecondRepublic. Both parties ensured access toeducation, health, employment, abolishedoppressive taxes which enhanced the qualityof the lives of the people. Today, the APChas, like the Peoples Democratic Party, pricededucation and health out of the reach of thepoor. The traffic control agencies in the APC-controlled states extort money from motoristslike the Nigeria Police Force. The APC isseriously defending the dubious rein of marketfundamentalism. It believes in thecommercialisation of education and health andthe privatisation of public assets. Even in theUnited States, the bastion of capitalism, thepoor are housed by the state while theirchildren can access education. The main crisisin the US Congress pertains to Obamacarewhich has to do with access to health for 47million Americans who had no healthinsurance. Here, Nigerians are told that thegovernment cannot fund schools, fundhospitals, construct roads, supply water etc.Nigerians have to pay through their noses forall social services including epileptic powersupply. If civil servants cannot educate theirchildren, feed their family and live areasonably decent life then the government hasfailed. But due to his socialist backgroundAregbesola has extricated himself from thecrisis of ideological confusion associated withthe APC. He is convinced that the nationaleconomy should never be handed over tomarket forces. For me, that is the basis of hiselectoral victory.

Some people said that the outcome of theOsun election must have surprised the peopleof Ekiti State. Do you agree?

They were certainly surprised thatAregbesola successfully mobilised the Osunpeople to resist the fascist onslaught. Whereas36,790 troops were deployed for the EkitiState governorship election the figure rose to73,000 in Osun State. Some of the armedgoons were gendarmes who wore masks.Whereas in Ekiti State 40 APC members werearrested, over 700 APC supporters wererailroaded to detention in Osun State. I had tointervene to secure the release of an 80-year-old lawyer. But others, including OsunAttorney-General and Commissioner forJustice, Mr. Wale Afolabi, were released afterthe election. But at the end of the day themilitarisation and monetisation of the electoral

process compelled the people to defend theirvotes.

But his opponent rattled him? Don’t youagree?

I do not agree with you. Aregbesola spoketo me when the undue delay in theannouncement of the results of the electioncaused so much tension and anxiety. Given thesupport of the people, he was on top of thesituation. But the Independent NationalElectoral Commission refused to collaboratewith the anti-democratic forces, who werehell-bent on truncating the electoral process.

Some people said the outcome was anindication that Aregebsola was beatable afterall?

That position is misleading. It was not afree and fair election. Election observers werechased away while many party agents werebeaten up by security forces and thugs topave way for the writing of results for thePDP in certain areas. Even when it wasconfirmed that Aregbesola had beaten hisclosest rival by over 100,000 votes Mr. FemiFani-Kayode announced that the PDP wascoasting to victory. With the arrest of 700people and the intimidation of others includinga former governor, commissioners andlegislators belonging to the APC, GovernorAregbesola snatched victory from the jaws ofthe lion.

Did the arrest and detention of APCleaders work against the APC and in favourof the PDP?

For sure, the wave of arrests was designedto manipulate the election in favour of thePDP. But it was a wrong calculation.Aregbesola mobilised the people and so theytrooped out to vote. And when the returningofficer had problems with the announcementof the results, the voters surrounded the INECoffice at Osogbo. At that juncture the securityforces pitched their tent with the people.

Can you please justify this?The Federal Government did not hide its

plan to engage in the militarisation of theelection in Osun State. But I was so sure that

no amount of militarisation or monetisation ofthe electoral process would make the PDPdefeat Aregbesola at the poll.

Do you think that if the likes of formergovernors Isiaka Adeleke and PrinceOlagunsoye Oyinlola did not defect from thePDP to the APC, Iyiola Omisore could havewon?

With respect to ex-governors Oyinlola andAdeleke, I do not concern myself with theeffect of the defection of politicalheavyweights. I prefer to de-emphasisepersonalities and concentrate on theprogrammes of political parties or theircandidates. Adeleke was intimidated andprevented from casting his vote. Oyinlola wasreported to have lost his polling unit to thePDP. It was the same story in Ekiti Statewhere Segun Oni lost his unit to the PDP. Inan enlightened environment voters do not takedictation from leaders.

What did you think made Omisore lose theelection?

The PDP erroneously believed that it wasthe militarisation of the election that led to itsvictory in Ekiti State. So, it increased thenumber of troops deployed for thegovernorship election in Osun State. ButAregbesola drew sufficient lessons from Ekitiand mobilised the Osun people to defend theirvotes. Owing to his organic link with themasses, they were prepared to make thenecessary and even risky sacrifice to have himre-elected. In terms of integrity, consistency,pedigree, education and principle, OtunbaOmisore could not match Ogbeni Aregbesola.That was why he lost the election.

Does he have any case at the tribunal?Neither Senator Omisore nor the PDP has

filed any petition at the election petitiontribunal.

Do you think his arrest and trial over thekilling of Chief Bola Ige worked againsthim?

I would not know. But the statementcredited to Oyinlola at the last rally of theAPC to the effect that all those who were

detained at the Agodi prisons over the killingof Ige had become the leaders of the PDP inOsun State was so weighty that it might haveassisted some voters to make up their minds.

Would you say that the security agencieswere partial during the election?

In Osun State, Lai Mohammed, theNational Publicity Secretary of the APC wasarrested. We have just been informed that hewas arrested for wandering. But the vagrancylaw was abolished in 1986. If Mohammed wasarrested on the road, Mr. Nasir el-Rufai,another APC leader, was arrested in his hotelroom during the Anambra State governorshipelection last year. Was Nasir also arrested forwandering? To confirm the partiality of thesecurity forces, some PDP leaders fromAnambra, Lagos, Ogun and Ekiti states werein Osun State during the election. They hadplatoons of military and police personnelguiding them. Nobody declared any of them apersona non grata.

Can you defend this?The issue goes beyond the partiality of the

armed forces. My position is that soldiershave no role to play in the conduct ofelections. It is the constitutional duty of thepolice to maintain law and order duringelections. Even the Department of StateService is an undercover security apparatus togather intelligence, detect crimes and passinformation to the police. I am saying withoutany fear of contradiction that no law in Nigeriaallows any security man to wear masks. Thatwas the first time in the history of Nigeria thatmasked security operatives were involved inelections. Beyond the condemnation of thepartisan stand of the Armed Forces, theNigerian people should insist that eachsecurity agency is restricted to its jurisdiction.

Don’t you think that the percentage ofvotes got by the PDP was an indication thatthe party is gaining ground in the state andthe South-West?

Since there is no clearly marked ideologicaldifference between the APC and the PDP thelatter is likely to continue to make inroads inthe country. It is a challenge for all Nigerianswho are committed to genuine social change tocome together, unite and intervene decisivelyin mobilising Nigerians to take their politicaldestiny in their own hands. Instead ofrejecting the APC for the PDP, the Nigerianpeople should be presented with a crediblealternative political platform. With its defeatin Osun State the PDP ought to know thatnaked power through militarisation will notwin the general election.

Will the number of votes secured byOmisore not be a boost for the ruling party inthe presidential election?

It is not likely to be a boost for the rulingparty. Nigerians owe themselves a duty tomake the 2015 general election issue based.

What advice do you have for Aregbesola?Understandably, the expectations of the

people are high. Aregbesola has to redouble hisefforts. He has to free the economy of thestate from the tight grip of contractors byreorganising the state ministry of works toconstruct and maintain roads. The ministryhas more qualified engineers than most of thefirms that handle road projects. Some of theroads constructed by the Public WorksDepartment under the Chief ObafemiAwolowo government are stronger than thenew roads. Some of the roads are still plied inthe rural areas. With a ministry of housing, thegovernment does not need to build housingunits through contractors. The healthpersonnel in the ministry of health, the trainedteachers in the ministry of education, the agricexperts in the ministry of agriculture who arenot productive in the public service should bedeployed in the communities to make themproductive. Through such revolutionarymeasures you conserve funds fordevelopment. During elections it is the peoplethat will vote and not contractor.

Culled from PUNCH.

•FALANA

OSUN DEFENDER Thursday, August 28, 201412 FEATUREOLUSESI ISAAC re-visits Segun Akinwusi of Social Democratic Party (SDP), State of Osun

and writes that Akinwusi played a haughty and naughty front for the opposition's politicalblitzkrieg, far more consequential nationally, than what Wale Bolorunduro dismissed merelyas a "trivial matter, not deserving of a serious attention."

Segun Akinwusi Of SDP And Nation’s GoodIT is given to every man to begin the race at

the starting line; but every man breasting thetape at the same time will alter the divine

scheme for the mortal beings and re-define thepurposes of life. Think of what it would meanif everyone is of the same height, weight andsame intelligence quotient (IQ)?. Then thinkwhat it would have meant if all the candidatesfor the 2014 State of Osun governorship racewere to belong to one and the same politicalparty and possess same essential requisites forthe office?

Of the lot, one gubernatorial candidate, SegunAkinwusi of the State of Osun SocialDemocratic Party (SDP) has a ring of tragicirony around himself as he played a haughty andnaughty front for the opposition’s politicalblitzkrieg, putting all manner of obstructions inthe way of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the AllProgressives Congress (APC) governorshipcandidate in the State. When nothing worked asAkinwusi had schemed, he made a veryembarrassing and damaging leak to the publicover the debt manifest of Osun. By that, hedrew the sword of partisan wrangling from thescabbard and appropriated the task of mobilizingthe people of the State against the re-electionof Aregbesola as Osun governor.

Paradoxes, inherent in men are alwaysutterly unresolved and unresolvable. The sameAkinwusi is the latest retired Head of Service inOsun who Aregbesola inherited on assumption ofoffice a little after the ides of November, 2010;and Aregbesola magnanimously permitted himto carry on for years as number one publicservant in the state until Akinwusi retired onself accord and made his foray into partisanpolitics with the loots raked in the previouscorrupt ridden Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)government in Osun. Paradoxically, Akinwusisprang the indebtedness of Osun to the tune ofover N400 billion, and there was instantthundering rumble of ear-blocking silence orraucous, and high decibel of ear-shatteringmurmurs. He started it as a whisper, it becamean uproar; he began it as a trickle, and itassumed a might river.

Akinwusi goofed! His pedestrian noise onlyacquired the reputation and attribute ofincomprehensibility, until the statistics from theCentral Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the DebtManagement Office (DMO) in the Presidencypunctured his frightening debt figures and pulledhim down, from the pedestal of integrity to thedenizen of shame. Osun debt is actually put atonly N30 billion as loans and N11.4 billion asbonds from the capital market, totaling N41.4billion; but judiciously committed to thedevelopment of physical structures across thestate.

What came from Akinwusi with theproficiency of a stubborn customer was far moreconsequential nationally, than what WaleBolorunduro, State Commissioner for Financeand Budget merely called “a trivial matter, notdeserving of a serious attention.” It wasAkinwusi’s huge flotsam of damaged truth,debris of misinformation, unprovable allegationand chunks of noises and unpolished lies. A caseof a man more sinning against Osun than beingsinned against. Akinwusi, not a new face out ofold body, has oiled the wheel of hypocrisy andraised fawning hypocrisy to the status ofreligious virtues, merely demeaning himself,while playing public favour-seeking pseudogame. He is a vivid example of poor peddling.But Osun people are not vulnerable to whatAntonia Gramsci (1891-1937) called “the warof maneuver” in one of his several writings onthe political unrests in Italy following theRussian Revolution of 1917. Gramsci of a lowermiddle-class family at Ales, the Italian Island ofSardinia, was an Italian Communist Party leader,Marxist political theorist and a journalist forthe Socialist newspaper, ‘AVANTI’. He attendedthe University of Turin.

In the familiar animal analogy, thegovernorship seeking Akinwusi has thecharacterization of an idle baboon who waits forthe monkey to bring him what he must chop.He portends a lazy baboon, living in opulenceand indulgent indolent luxury, while the workersin the state will sweat more and eat less. Theywill be under paid and over taxed, with Akinwusigetting power intoxicated as “power corruptsand absolute power corrupts absolutely,” in theLord Acton aphorism. He will surely loose outin the August 9 gubernatorial election, and hismemoir will read: ‘one paper weight candidateand untidy propagandist in the person of SegunAkinwusi contested in the Osun Stategubernatorial poll and effortlessly lost’.

But Aregbesola has assumed a greater stake in

•AKINWUSI •BOLORUNDURO

the Osun enterprise than the state workers. Inhis near four years in the saddle of the stateaffairs, Aregbesola has rather acted the monkeyand actually pleased the collective people ofOsun in practical terms. Not anyone inparticular. His banish Poverty, Hunger, andUnemployment (BanPHU) through economicand social transformation have re-enacted theMikhail Gobachev’s efforts, the Russianglasnost and perestroika projects. The glasnoststood for openness and perestroika, forrestructuring. Like the Gobachev revolution, theAregbesola BanPHU revolution has removedthe contradictions inherent in the Osun system.Aregbesola’s infrastructure projects in all nooksand crannies in the state also connect the Osuneconomy and Osun wealth to attractinvestment. His government’s borrowing hasnot over burden the state.

There cannot be removal of systemcontradictions without casualties. Akinwusi isthe first victim of Aregbesola’s plugging ofleakages in the state revenue generation. Heretired to save himself of further pains of ‘notbeing able to tap any longer from the usualleakages he was used to, and had to plunge selfinto politics as face-saving’ a friend of his sohinted in a chat. Akinwusi has detoured from theimmiscible integrity and profundity of civilservice, “not one to honour, a pathological liaron the debt status of the state, and unworthy ofprivileges reserved for the honourable men,”according to his primary constituency of Headsof Service and Permanent Secretaries, State ofOsun.

Indeed, Osun can no longer stand Akinwusi’s

karat nugget of drivel and Babel. Osun peoplehave come to know him for his blabber mouth,noise of confusion sewn together with thethread of journalese.

The careless talkers in the cast of Akinwusiare into heinous and treacherous crime, andhave a noose dangling above their recalcitrantheads. Imagine what the rumpus noises theAkinwusis of Nigeria subject the nation’sleadership to on daily basis: noise from marketwomen, noise from labour unions, noise fromnews media, noise from leaders of industries,noise from armed robbers, noise fromkidnappers, noise from terrorists, noise fromnight soil men, noise from religious leaders,noise from transporters, noise from politicians,noise from political thugs, noise from garagetouts, noise from lecturers , noise from students,noise from street beggars, noise fromunemployed youths, noise from lawmakers,noise from lawbreakers, noise from civilservants, noise from domestic animals, noisefrom house wives, noise from husbands, noisefrom landlords, noise from tenants, noise fromdiseases et al.

Imelda, wife of strong man Marcos of theRepublic of the Philippines once traced herhusband’s illness to a malignant affliction ofcriticisms from the Akinwusis of thePhilippines, an island republic in the WesternPacific Ocean in the Malaya Archipelago, anisland grouping that extends southwards toinclude Indonesia and Malaysia. The Philippinescomprises more than 7,100 islands of totalpopulation of 9,268,143 by 2008 estimate.

It was for the Akinwusis of the nations of the

world that the term “make haste slowly” wasinvented. “Silence is wisdom when speaking isfolly,” said Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) anEnglish clergyman, author, and wit in his firstbook of sermon, Joseph’s Party-Colored Coat,1640. Sages through ages have acknowledgedthat silence is not just golden, it is thepetroleum untouched with the hoary hands ofOPEC ministers. And in these days of globalterrorism, austerity and diseases when peoplesof the world have become emaciated, and mealsare oblongs instead of square, the Akinwusisshould learn to conserve energy needed by hislisteners for survival. Akinwusi will see theNiagra of encomium in his backyard, if he cantry the words of a Latin poet, known for hislyric verse on mythological subjects, PubliusPapinius Statius’ “Let a fool hold his tongueand he will pass for a sage”

And if this piece offends Segun, let him dome a favour: stop further nagging, and learn topolice your lips, not padlock them. Or when isit decided that whoever thinks otherwise, awayfrom Segun, must be either a traitor or anincurable malcontent.

•This piece was sent in before OsunAugust gubernatorial election

•Olusesi is Assistant Director, Directorate ofPublicity, Research and Strategy, AllProgressives Congress (APC), State of Osun.

•JONATHAN •AREGBESOLA

13 OSUN DEFENDER Thursday, August 28, 2014

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14 OSUN DEFENDER Thursday, August 28, 2014

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15 OSUN DEFENDER Thursday, August 28, 2014 PHOTOTALK

More Pictures On Jubilation Over The Victory Of Governor Rauf Aregbesola In 2014Governorship Election In The State Of Osun Recently.

•Governor Rauf Aregbesola carrying a little girl.

•A mammoth crowd during the jubilation.

•A cross section of Aregbesola’s numerous admirers.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2014

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By ADE OLUGBOTEMIWE must appreciate

God for ouruniqueness that

distinguishes us from thewhole lot. The white mancame and found us so; thatis why they marginalized usand gave undue preferenceto the Northern andEastern parts of thecountry, so that all politicalalliances that have ever been, gotconsummated between the duo. TheWest was always made to go it alone,so that the conspiracy-engenderedmarginalization would be easilyhatched to make inefficiency-lacedadministration subsist. Incidentally,the West has always constituted thestabilizing factor because there arecertain internal mechanisms thatrestore normalcy. Nobody is thus leftin the dark that whatever wouldbecome of an entity called Nigeria ispredicated on what the Western partof Nigeria is able to fashion.

Leaders from other parts of thecountry have always instigatedinternal wranglings by trying to putour political leaders on collisioncourse. People generally get confusedat times, but when it appears as if weare approaching the breaking point,solutions that are beyond humanknowledge will suddenly unfold, andwe quickly put the ugly situationbehind us. We can imagine thenumber of times we have beenpestered to get frustrated, but withoutsuccess because of our resilience.This has always been the savinggrace; and this is what others drawfrom to also muster strength for theirsurvival. That is why people alwaysdraw the conclusion that the Westholds the key to the continuedsurvival of the country.

Another miracle took place thepenultimate Saturday, when anelection, that was earlier speculatedto bring with it serious upheaval,suddenly went peacefully: anotherhand of God at work! Theconsternation was understandable, asno other election in the history ofNigeria’s nationhood had attracted somany security Personnel to a Stateprior to any elections. That is why wefeel the historians need to toil on theirarea of specialization and find outwhether it has ever happened in anynation of the world, so that ours willform part of the contents in theGuinness Book of Records. Thesiege was surely unprecedented; somuch that people felt heaven wasgoing to fall on the State of Osun, asit is known today.

Residents were inundated with callsprior to, during, and after the electionthat sent jitters down the spines ofmost people in the state. The onlypeople that were spared the troubleof the unusual heavy presence ofsecurity personnel were the partyfaithful of the Peoples Democratic

Party’s (PDP) extraction, whoperadventure had the premonition ofwhat has generally been consideredalien in our political evolution. Whilethe majority were treading withcaution, PDP members were visiblyunperturbed because the mastermindsof that ugly scenario were JeliliAdesiyan, the Minister of PoliceAffairs and Musiliu Obanikoro, theMinister of State for Defence, whoearlier threatened to reclaim Osun byall means.

One thing I have noticed over theyears is that our kinsmen have alwaysbeen instruments in the hands of ouradversaries. They used some of uswhen they wanted to demystify thelate Obafemi Awolowo, even to theend that he only became the bestpresident Nigeria never had. Theyused some of us against the lateM.K.O. Abiola, and Nigeria hasnever remained the same again afterhe was denied the privilege of usingthe mandate that was overwhelmingly

given at the polls. They are now alsomaking use of some of us to disruptthe peace that has becomeentrenched in the State of Osun, sothat the visionary leadership at work,and all plans and programmes aimedat changing the face of ourenvironment for the better will becircumvented. What is sacrosancthowever is that betrayal and rebellionare doorways to the peril of theirhatchers.

For a long time now, successiverulers have always paid lip-service todevelopment. This is the first time inthe last thirty years that concretesteps would be taken to massivelyattend to infrastructural problem thathas hampered developmentalprospect of the whole nation. This iscurrently happening in all the South-West states of Nigeria, and I thinkwhat every right-thinking Nigerianmust be interested in is to rallysupport for all those who are addingvalue to governance across the

South-West geo-political zone.That is the reason behind theoverwhelming support thatpeople are according the AllProgressives Congress (APC)governors, irrespective of whathappened in the recently-concluded Ekiti gubernatorialelection.

Osun gubernatorial election hascome and gone; and it has beengenerally adjudged to be free, fair,and credible. Whatever is left of itsimperfection should be excused onthe altar of human infallibility. I am notsure some people can be satisfiedshould it be God that came downfrom His heavenly abode to conductour election for us. PeoplesDemocratic Party’s (PDP) candidate,Iyiola Omisore, preferred to take toAhithophel’s counsel to go to ElectionTribunal to challenge the Election; thehighest level of exhibiting desperation,one would say. I know the will andwishes of the majority will prevail.Omisore should however learn toaccept what betides, so as not to fightthe Creator that has given him thegrace of recognition to have emergeda candidate.

Osun people have now known thatOmisore is after something other thanthe mandate the people could give.The fact that it was jubilation galoreall over the place would haveprompted a reflex action by which hewould manage to muster acongratulatory message to the victor.Probably, the man forgot that it willtake some time for the FederalGovernment to recover from theexcess spending spree that gave himso many quanta of Osun’s votes.Omisore ought to have convinced hisprincipal in Abuja to release half theamount spent to bribe voters, so thatvoters would get convinced throughexecuted projects of the need formore of federal presence throughJonathan’s PDP.

The entire State of Osun wasreduced to fearsome military zone;just because PDP wanted to reclaimOsun by force. Our people must bepraised for the uncommon couragethey exhibited while the occupationlasted. They showed the courage oftrue patriots, who are resolute to seea new society evolving. Theintimidations of security agentsnotwithstanding, they defended theirvotes and ensured that the umpiresreleased the results emanating fromthe various polling units. This is agreat lesson for us all not to getdeterred by any intimidations thatmay come as ploy to disenfranchisepeople. Without any intention to rig,people can now rest assured thatwhen God is behind us, no power, noprincipality can thrive. When God isfor us, who can be against us?

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