With a loud ovation, we should applaud the former Governor, Rauf Aregbesola. It is so disturbing that we refuse to appreciate what he has done for us in Osun State, oops! State of Osun. We are thankless to him and we failed to build a big throne or his statue adopting him as the best governor of all time in Nigeria at Ola-Iya junction, rather they are building a flyover which is funded by the state-born contractor.
Everybody failed Aregbesola including the Nigerian system, lawmakers, Civil Servants, students, school owners, educationists, Oranmiyan, journalists, mission schools, retirees and his Hallelujah boys, State Boys.
Nigeria system failed him because he could not go for the third term, but kudos to Aregbesola, during an event, he laughed hysterically and with all sense of bravado, he said, “Governor Oyetola is using my third term ooo.” Baba Kabiru is a core Ijesha man.
Civil servants are ingrate to Baba Kabiru who also born Afusa during his second term. The naming ceremony goes on for about four years. Even though they are tired of the Faaji of Afusa, he fed them till Omo Lèmonmù (Iragbiji man) stop the euphoria.
Retirees and Journalists are thankless to him because, during the administration of Baba Kabiru who doubled as Baba Afusa, they do daily exercises by converging at iconic Nelson Mandela Freedom park via Old Garage and match through Ola-Iya, Ogo-Oluwa with placards to shut the gate of Government Secretariat, Abere.
I know that Retirees and Journalists will be missing the pankere of the Hallelujah Boys— State Boyz especially on the day they set up Retirees IDP camp at Old Garage.
To mention a few, the Osun State Tertiary Institutions students were welcomed into the capital of the state with tear gas when they demonstrated over continued staying at home as a result of the industrial action embarked upon by their lecturers. The lecturers were protesting, among other things, the stoppage of the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, claiming that the state government had been making pension deductions from their salaries and had refused to remit same to their individual pension fund administrators.
Journalists will miss the old days of casting hilarious headlines like, “Christian pupils wear church garments to schools in Osun”, “Osun unite more as students will wear single Uniform”, “Aregbesola places Thugs on salary”, “Livings have not received a salary, dead cargos are kicking— Aregbesola tells pensioners”, “State boys to deal with Tribune and Punch correspondents” and many more. Hope your papers are still selling without casting such headlines again?
The 6th Osun State Assembly under Hon Najeem Salam did not do well in hailing Ogbeni because they should remember that lawmakers were sweeping chambers when all workers shunned work over strike over unpaid salaries.
The Oranmiyan are not campaigning well for the Awolowo of our time, maybe they are busy fighting for Take-Away rice, the same way they did in Ondo State when thugs beat Commissioner for Integration, Bola Ilori.
Educationists were shocked by the innovation of school reclassification by the great Ogbeni as they see classification that is different from 6-3-3-4 known and practised in the education sector. Please, fix a day to honour him with medals and awards.
The legacy project of Aregbesola, Mega Fraud, please mind my typos, Mega Schools gulped N1.5 billion each and we have 11 of them. Double tragedy for those schools as they are underutilised and structure failing.
Ogbeni had a national interest in addressing the challenges of out-of-school children, he built 3000 capacity schools with “Original fake” materials so that students that are disturbed by Boko Haram can come to Osun Schools. Is that not a legacy project.
Oyetola led government don’t want to be stressed like Sanwolu who continue to visit a 21-storey building that collapse in Ikoyi. I think the governor can’t compose dirge for innocent school children who are schooling in these Mega frauds. Why the structural integrity test?
The number of classrooms is more than the number of students in Osun. Isn’t that wonderful?
Governor Adegboyega Oyetola has his portion of the blame for not setting aside a day, a probably public holiday to celebrate Ogbeni who caused the state to be indebted to the tune of over N200 billion. Hope you are shall coping with the debt profile?
According to an economy expert, Dr Tunji Ogunyemi said going by the current debt burden on Osun State, every citizen of the state is owing the sum of N38,140.
Let us hail Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, he is on TOP!
