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Oyinlola’s Injury Time Dissipation

Feb 10th, 2010 | By admin | Category: ENTERTAINMENT, FOR THE RECORDS

Governor OyinlolaBack Up With Ade Olugbotemi

Football as a form of sporting activities has become a ubiquitous pastime event the world over that gives a form of relief to boring souls after the hully bully that often characterizes daily activities. I have come to realize that the love for football has been used by successive leaders in the country ( Nigeria ) to shield the consciousness of the masses that particular attentions are not paid to all elements of maladministration around us including embezzlement, electoral malpractices, religious bigotry and other societal ills like sectarian killings, armed banditry and the likes.

Football, like any other sports has its rules. The rules range from those applicable at the preliminary stage to those that are applicable at the knock-out stage. When the competition advances to the knock-out stage in a football competition, winners must of a necessity emerge so that the principle of survival of the fittest becomes apparent. For winners to emerge, the officials often bring in extra-time to be added or they resort to spot-kicks straight on. At whatever stage of the competition, there is what they call injury time. This is to take care of time wastage either deliberately or otherwise. So, apart from the ninety minutes regulation time for the two halves of the competition, added time of about one to ten minutes may be added depending on the non-functionality of the regulation time barring any bias from the referees.

Injury time is not always a good time for consolidation because it is usually tension-soaked and laced with palpable consternation. Any side that has failed to make something out of the normal regulation time often add to their woes when trying to capitalize on injury time to outwit opponents. Instead of deriving benefits, they end up adding to their woes. This is what Osun State under Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola can be likened to at the moment; because the Governor is indeed overwhelmed at the moment by the hypnotism of injury time debacle.

If we may take as genuine and germane the canopy the discord between the workers and the government of Chief Bisi Akande provided for Oyinlola in 2003 to help him get to power by hook and crook, that canopy has become dysfunctional since 2007 when the people of Osun State overwhelmingly and passionately trooped to polling centres to vote for Engineer Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola who stormed the political terrain of Osun by surprise. Since that 2007, the embattled Governor Oyinlola has been operating injury time and the scenario elucidated above seems to have been the lot of the governor till date.

Any governor who enjoys popular mandate will not be inundated with siren-blistering alone. People will always love to see their governor passes by with ecstasy; with the governor also wanting to keep the tempo by executing projects that will positively impact the lives of the people and avoiding wastages arising from sordid performances and execution of projects by recalcitrant and profiteering contractors. Things will be done sequentially so as to make use of scarce resources the best ways possible. There is always the consciousness that the people are themselves the ombudsmen, whose opinions will permeate the conscious idea of the people to determine the renewable prospect or otherwise of mandates when due.

The carefree attitude of the embattled Governor Oyinlola must be looked into critically, considering the fact that he enjoys the lordship of determining how our dues of the federation accounts and the internally generated revenues are being (mis) managed. Over three million people that make up the indigenes and residents of Osun State are being denied stakes in matters that have direct bearing on their welfare and wellbeing; with wastages and plundering smearing people in the face. To Governor Oyinlola, changing a damaged water pipe take much time that its repair cannot be assured within a reasonable time frame. The implication of this is that people must wait endlessly if they are unfortunate to have burst water pipes. Many communities within Osogbo metropolis have stayed in darkness for over five months and the government is not bothered. It is their opinion that if the poor residents that benefit from damaged transformer or conductors cannot repair or replace them they must perpetually remain in darkness with the possibility of being exposed to the dangers of night marauders. The insensitivity has prompted the governor and his co-siphoners to care less about any possibility of losses of lives due to emergencies. Any sick persons resident along Gbongan road in Osogbo cannot be guaranteed a safe bay because the traffic logjam along Olaiya filling station round about must be contended with before getting to either LAUTECH Teaching Hospital or state hospital in Asubiaro, or better still the popular Jaleyemi Hospital also in Asubiaro. The government of Oyinlola is so insensitive that it cannot reason along well-meaning individuals who are of the opinion that tarring the road that links Jaleyemi cross junction to old Coca-cola along Gbongan road that has become impassable will save people from much trouble that they are confronted with, having to pass through the ever busy Olaiya round about. I am not insensitive of the same plight that has befallen the residents of other major cities like Ilesa, Ile-Ife, and others in Osun State .

Like Nigeria , like Osun State . The absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua from the country over seventy days ago has caused so many ripples. People are of the opinion that his absence has caused the nation major dislocations because there is no known personality that can give order and instill sanity in the system. The vice president is more or less a figurehead; a stooge that cannot take definite decision that will propel forward the mantle of leadership. The money is there but it cannot be administered; just because the almighty president is indisposed and the constitution has become so irrelevant that the vice president cannot act in his stead. Some so called kitchen cabinet members have refused vehemently to let reason prevail so that the country will move out of the woods. The same situation prevails in the State of the Living Spring. The only difference is that there is a governor in place but the governor is an embattled sleeping governor who cannot make anything work for the benefits of the people. Projects have become like recurring decimals under him and he seems not to have solutions to the myriads of problems that are confronting his government. Rather than find solutions to them, he has decided to fashion for himself a safe bay that will ameliorate his psychological decimation by devoting the majority of his time to golfing and sundry games; including those that belittle the exalted position of a state governor. So, instead of fuelling retinue of cars in the governor’s convoy to places to commission projects that have direct positive bearing on the people, Governor Oyinlola only fuels government vehicles to travel round the country to play the game of golf.

Governor Oyinlola needs to explain to the people of Osun State on what has become of the fabulous amount allocated and released for the beautification projects of Osogbo and other major cities in Osun State ? People watched with keen interest, how wire gauze was acquired to protect the plants and green fields that would be planted in the middle of Akoda-Old garage, Osogbo road as part of the beautification process. Surprisingly, the wire gauze disappeared overnight, and today, the road divider that is supposed to be wearing green look is being concreted. This process cannot be justified by any sane people, and I think people must rise up to condemn this high level of insensitivity and squandering of scarce public funds.

Not a small number of people showed their annoyance about the appearance of the cobra man – Ibukun Fadipe on the television during the monthly phoning programme put in place ostensibly to inform the people of Osun State about how government businesses are run in Osun State . Whether that programme is fulfilling that purpose has been a topic of discussion and it will continue to be. The concern for the moment is the audacity the embattled governor had to still call a criminal that is still being investigated to answer some questions as an executive chairman. Agreed, the chairman of Ilesa-West Local government has not been convicted by a competent law court, the fact that he is being hunted by the death of so many Ijesa indigenes irrespective of political affiliation (including the late illustrious Chief Ade Komolafe and Agboola Obadare among others) is enough reason to shield the blood-thirsty Ibukun Fadipe from the glare of the public. I am sure Oyinlola deliberately invited Fadipe to the open forum and asked him to respond to certain issues so that people can see him as a member of a cabal that is above the law of the land.

People should take solace in the fact that Oyinlola’s days are numbered on the coveted governor’s seat. This injury period cannot bring any performance of succour to the people in Osun State . What Oyinlola has failed to do in seven years cannot be done in his “few days” remaining as a governor of Osun State . People should even expect more disappointments from him so that they will be saved from developing unnecessary high blood pressure which may aggravate the already tensed situation. Obviously, the good Lord that has seen us this far by His grace will see us through without being utterly consumed. Amen

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  1. omolebi February 11th, 2010 8:20 pm :

    I assume he is even in hurry to go!Dissolution,confession,tearing the party apart,and not minding who succeeds him are clear indication of his sapped interest!People should be wary of him now ,he is like a snake that had its head chopped off,it can be deadly playing with one! “K’olomo kilo f”omore Osun a ro”

  2. Olakunle February 21st, 2010 3:57 pm :

    Well….we have seen our state progressing in all spheres at least more than what it use to be between 1999 and 2003.
    Gov. oyinlola has really tried and has done well for our dear state.
    God bless gov. oyinlola …God bless osun state…God bless Nigeria

  3. Olakunle February 21st, 2010 4:00 pm :

    Everybody cannot appreciate the gov. one which is obvious from the “defender” and some other group. It should be expected in a free society but we will do ourselves good and children unborn good if we can appreciate those that are doing well and constructive criticism if need be.

    God bless you

  4. Olakunle February 21st, 2010 4:03 pm :

    Leaders and those that are doing well don’t fall from heaven. Lagos gov, Port Harcourt, Osun and some others in Nigeria are trying and through encouragement can do more. Those that are not should be encourage too so as to do well and we can all have a society we will all be proud of.
    God bless Osun…Nigeria.

  5. Ajiboye February 22nd, 2010 7:22 pm :

    It is very sad that there are people who falsify truth and reality. In what way could any rational being compare the supersonic governor of Lagos with any other governor in Nigeria? Granted that Hon Rotimi Amaechi;the governor of Rivers State and a host of others such as those of Jigawa, Akwa Ibom and Enugu are equally commendable, there is no basis for listing any of the minimalist PDP governors in the western part of Nigeria among the performers.
    One therefore wonders what informs the comments of Olakunle above on the despotic Osun state governor, whose only distinction is his tyrannical rule that is bereft of any social benefit. Are they the filth in the towns, the dilapidation of educational and health care institutions, mass poverty, poor basic infrastructure and the general air of insecurity that covers the state that qualify Oyinlola for positive mention? The Gbongan – Osogbo road has become the yardstick for measuring Oyinlola’s ineptitude. The road that has been under construction since 2005 progressively fails with the work in progress.
    Oyinlola is a reveler. A serial alcoholic and womaniser who is permanently attracted to easy life and can not be bothered by the serious engagement of state administration.
    People like Olakunle should desist from insulting our collective sense of judgement, decency and outrage by checking their utterances on the human disasters that befell our race through Obasanjo’s reckless imposition since 2003.
    Certainly their days are numbered. They are destined to be consigned to the dustbin of history by the grace of God.

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