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Mind you i dont support any


Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, the Executive Governor of Osun State or
as he chooses to call it, the State of Osun is a man who courts
controversy with every move he makes. If he attracts controversies,
without intending to, that would have been a case of others reading
undue meanings to his actions and utterances but the Ogbeni of Osun
seems to thrive in and enjoy controversies. He is no doubt one of the
controversial amongst the 36 governors the country has on parade.

Born in the late fifties, in Ilesa, Aregbesola had his elementary school
in Ikare Akoko, in the Akoko Division of present day Ondo State. He
enrolled at the Polytechnic, Ibadan, where he graduated in the
Department of Mechanical Engineering with a Higher National Diploma in 1980.

As a student, he was an activist, who was involved in students’ union
activities. On graduation, he did his primary assignment at the defunct
Nigeria External Telecommunication (NET) as a member of the National
Youth Service (NYSC) in Kujama. During this period, he resided at Sabon
Tasha, a suburb of Kaduna, where the company had staff quarters. It was
during this period, he met and married his wife, Sherifat.

In 1986, he moved down to Lagos and there he became the Maintenance
Engineer at Lagos Airport Hotel, Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja. He later
resigned to establish his personal engineering firm, Aurora Ventures in
Shasha, Lagos.

Ogbeni Aregbesola was an active participant in the third republic, when
two parties existed. The Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the National
Republican Convention (NRC) held sway. He belonged to the SDP. When
General Abdusalam Abubakar returned the country to civil rule in 1999,
Ogbeni Aregbesola was in the forefront of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation. Rauf, as he is fondly called, was
appointed commissioner.

While he held sway as commissioner of works and infrastructure in Lagos
State, Rauf Aregbesola was undoubtedly the most powerful of the
commissioners and a close ally of Bola Tinubu, a man he recently
described as his mentor. Tales abound on the pillaging that took place
in Lagos State under the watch of Tinubu and Aregbesola. It has been
said in different quarters that the strategic ministry of works
strategically assigned to the Osun State governor as the Asiwaju’s
trusted ally was because he was a man who could be relied upon to do the
bidding of his mentor and Rauf certainly did not disappoint.

Towards the end of the Bola Tinubu regime, Ogbeni Aregbesola launched
his Oranmiyan movement which he used as a political platform to
penetrate Osun State. The memory of the violent eruptions that his entry
into Osun politics caused is still fresh in the memory of those who were
victims of his importation of thugs from Lagos, as was reported then.

Since the Ogbeni took over as governor of Osun State through what a
prominent indigene of the state called “Justice Salami’s fraudulent
grace”, he has carried on with a fiery gusto that tends to suggest the
state is on its own and that he is lord and conqueror of the space he
now refers to as the State of Osun in flagrant rebellion against the
constitution of the federal republic. He has carried on despite cries
and admonition from far and near and in the process attracted a crowd of
cheerleaders who see him as the new bastion of democracy and exemplary
leadership in a fashion similar to what obtained while his mentor and
master, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu held sway in Lagos State.

Accolades and praise have never been in short supply for the self styled
socialist; he has always postured as one man who is truly one. He has
carried on somewhat as an activist in government house much in the mould
of the comrade governor of Edo State. It will be recalled that Ogbeni
Aregbesola openly led protesters in Osogbo during the January 2012 fuel
subsidy protests. That singular action, described as a well calculated
and highly published stunt, was meant to further throw him as a man of
the people and a populist in government.

There is no doubting the fact that this and other publicity
grandstanding his handlers have been throwing up in his agenda have
worked wonders in positioning him most adequately. He has received
praise and commendation even from some unexpected quarters. Not a few
people were impressed, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance
and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, at a function in Osun
State openly praised Aregbesola as an example of good leadership and
performance.

Also, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, wastes no
time, whenever the opportunity presents itself to praise sing
Aregbesola’s virtues and performance in office. A critic of Tambuwal
once retorted that he is turning Osogbo to his second home. Tambuwal’s
romance and frequent praise have unsettled the PDP leadership in the
state as they wonder why a member of the party and the number four man
in the country will descend so low as to be praising an opposition
politician the way he does.

Aside these two figures, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has equally remained
large in the media, courtesy the highly partisan Lagos press and its
online partners. But what is the true nature of this man, who many said
was rescued from penury by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu when he was appointed
commissioner; a man who could only situate his office is Shasha, a
distant surburb of Lagos in the Akowonjo area? What are the true
realities on ground in the state? How does his government work? Is he
the crusader and populist governor he claims to be? How has his policies
and actions affected the people of the state and what are his chances
come 2014?

Paparazzi dispatched our reporter to Osogbo the Osun State capital to
see things first hand, feel the pulse of the people and confirm the many
grandiose reports of performance that have been flying around. The
report is damning as it can be. This is another Paparazzi world exclusive!

*From Populism to Anti People Policies*

Gov. Aregbesola has always branded his socialist credentials said to
have been acquired from his days as student unionist. And he is quick to
throw this at your face! In the run off to the much disputed
governorship elections in 2007, he brandished this same populist agenda,
telling the people of the state in no unclear terms that he has come to
work for them but findings in Osogbo shows the contrary. According to
sources in Osogbo the lives of the people of the state is much worse
under the now APC administration of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.

“It like we have gone from frying pan to fire and the common people in
Osun are praying that Aregbesola must go. The present government has
destroyed the means of livelihood of the ordinary people in the name of
beautification. We are all crying, waiting for succour to come our way.
I believe in development but not the way the governor is going about
it.”, the source said.

A house wife, who operated a container shop around the railway line in
Osogbo lamented her ordeal thus: “I was managing a small container shop
around the railway line but it has been destroyed and taken away. The
shop was the only source I have to cater for myself and my family
because my husband’s carpentry business has not been doing well lately.
But now I am at a crossroad. We go hungry on a daily basis because the
governor’s people have destroyed our only source”, she says amidst regrets.

According several sources Paparazzi reporter spoke to in Osogbo, the
government of Ogbeni Aregbesola has not impacted on the common man at
all. “The truth is that Aregbesola is running an exclusive government
that does impact on our lives at all. Infact, he is running a Lagos
government because the people in government are his Lagos crowd who do
not have any touch with the people at the grassroot”, one of the sources
complained bitterly.

*Opon Scam *

One of the most celebrated achievements of the Rauf Aregbesola’s
government in Osun State in Opon Imo {Tablet PC} with inbuilt text books
and past exam questions for WEAC and JAMB. The launch of the tablets and
its distribution to students in the state was hailed and an innovative
move by the state government by many.

The N8.2 billion tablets christened Opon Imo may however take on a new
name, some people have already christened Opon Scam because of new
revelations coming out the procurement, configuration and distribution
of the tablets.

Kabiru Aregbesola, the 27 year old son of Ogbeni Aregbesola has been
revealed as the brain behind the procurement of the tablets. Though the
governor has laboured hard to deny the involvement of his son in the
procurement, insisting that he only helped with software without
invoicing the state, sources say the governor may be hiding the truth
from Osun people and Nigerians.

“ The governor actually believes Osun people are not intelligent and for
that he is trying to cover our faces with wool. He has forgotten that at
Ilesha, during the launch of the tablets, Tinubu was looking for
Kabiru; they wanted to hide the boy as they did not want people to know
that it was Kabiru that handled the project. It was Tinubu that exposed
everything. He called Kabiru and said you are a billionaire now,
announcing publicly that Kabiru is the brain behind the tablets”, the
source said.

Aside the above, there are concerns over the distribution of the
tablets, as sources say that contrary to widespread propaganda by the
state government, only very few of the tablets are in circulation.

“In my own local government area, I don’t think we have fifty students
that have the tablets and they are saying it on air that they have
distributed it to all SS3 and SS2 students in my local. You can go round
all the local government areas in Ife division comprising of Ife North,
Ife East, Ife Central, Ife South and the Area Council Modakeke and you
will not get more than 200 of the tablets.

Let Aregbesola come out with his statistics and let him also take us to
where the tablets are. This Opon Imo project is a scam in its entirety.
It is another avenue for Aregbesola and his family to continue to steal
the state blind. How can you procure tablets for N8.2 billion and we
won’t feel it? It does not make sense”, a source said.

*A Crippled Economy*

A visit to Osogbo, the Osun State capital will reveal a town whose
economy has been brought to its knees as economic activities are near
paralysed because of the policies and actions of the state government.
Besides the demolition of shops and houses along the road where citizens
make a living, every other avenue that could have boosted economic
activities in the state are said to have been effectively blocked.

A source confided in Paparazzi magazine that the state government as a
matter of practice does not patronize Osun State based contractors or
suppliers. “All the jobs in the state are handled by people from outside
the state. If you hope to join them, you must first relocate to Lagos
and now make your way back to Osun to join them. These are people who do
not believe in anything Osun yet they want to control our lives.

“The House of Assembly went around recently inspecting ongoing projects
and they came back expressing dissatisfaction with some of the
contractors. Who are the contractors? Who awarded the contract? Why
can’t they call these people to other and bring them to book? But it is
like they are playing on our intelligence in Osun state. A single family
is in control; they are deceiving us as if they are not together, they
have the same pocket where they keep our money, they are just deceiving
us, their own level of embezzlement is worst than anyone that I have
seen in my life. All construction projects in the state are handled by a
company called Ratcom.

“Who owns Ratcom? This is a question I will like Gov. Aregbesola to
answer for the good people of Osun State”, the source concluded.

“Even tailors and school uniform sellers are not left out in the
economic strangulation. The governor came out with a policy that all
schools owned by government should be wearing the same uniform and these
sellers started selling the fabrics and the tailors off course were
making a living out of that. But suddenly, he established what he called
Omoluable garment factory under his wife and stopped students from
patronizing people outside. So a uniform that goes for N800 outside now
sells for N1,500 from the garment outfit. The fabric sellers and the
tailors lost business to the governor’s wife. And you say you have the
interest of the people at heart.

*A Lagos Colony*

Continuing, our source says: “This government is about deception!
Everything you hear is propaganda; this government has a lot of contempt
for the people of Osun State and while glorifying the Lagos crowd.

“Aregbesola has virtually turned Osun State into a Lagos colony of some
sort. Everything about the state is from Lagos. Every major political
appointment in the state is taken over by his Lagos crowd. If you ask
him, he will tell you they are his people from Lagos and that they were
with him during the struggle for his mandate. He brought them to
embezzle money in Osun.

“This is capital flight; these people, including the governor only stay
in Osun from Monday to Thurdsay. You can’t find them sleeping in Osogbo
on Thursdays. They are in Lagos. Almost all political appointees are
foreigners and so we are not enjoying them. They are not accessible to
the people of the state. Osun is tired.

“As if this is not okay, he has sold large portions of Osun land to
Lagos State government for farming purposes. So the Lagos State
government will come and farm here in Osun and take the food back to
Lagos with all the revenue derivable `from it. What stops the governor
from making provisions for Osun farmers to take over such venture and
export their products available to Lagosians?

“The Aregbeshola’s government has paralyzed completely the economic
activities of Osun state; you see, democracy is a government of the
people, by the people and for the people but in his own case, it is not
so. It is the government of Osun State, by the people of Lagos State and
for the people of Lagos State. All the commissioners, SAs, SSA and about
80% of his political appointees are from Lagos. So they come to Osun
state on Mondays and go back to Lagos state on Thursdays.

*Floored Educational Policy*

In an era when governments are establishing new schools and hiring new
teachers, a supposed progressive governor like Aregbesola has been
closing down schools in the name of mergers. Many see his policy on
education as floored.

“By September a lot of things will be revealed in the education sector
because of schools that have merged. In my own home town, we had eight
secondary schools and the eight have been collapsed to two while a town
like Ikeji with four does not have any longer.

“The state government is doing this because it has no teachers for the
schools and instead of doing the reasonable, they have decided to merge
schools together, making an already bad situation worse. The state is
also having problems with constant strikes and bankruptcy, so they are
trying to reduce the workforce. It is an irony for a government that
claims progressive credentials and fraudulently projects performance, to
now have a school with a student population of over a thousand having
between 10 to 15 teachers.

*Between Fanaticism and Confusion*

For those who know Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, they will describe
him as a staunch Muslim who sometimes dangerously tends towards
fanaticism. Earlier in his administration, he was accused of trying to
Islamise the state and was actually said to have engaged the services of
an Islamic sect in the state to handle his security. The fears of a
fanatic governor was rife then and almost real but recent happenings in
the state may have put a permanent lid on his supposed strong Islamic
beliefs and in the same vein paint a picture of a confused state chief
executive, who in a bid to remain popular and score cheap political
points, dances dangerously to every beat and proclaiming and professing
every religion.

The recent “Odun Isheshe” {traditional religious festival} held in the
state, truly showed the governor as a man who is ready to romance
anything and anybody just for political gains. According to a source in
Osogbo, “what the governor has done amounts to sacrilege. He has
polluted the land and it will take only God to cleanse the state. What
he did is akin to what Nigeria did during Festac 77”.

Another source confided in Paparazzi that out of the N200 million the
state government approved for the festival, only a little above N60
million was released to the organizers while the remaining went to
private pockets.

*2014 and Aregbesola*

The countdown to the 2014 governorship election in the state is no doubt
getting interesting by the day and as expected, political forces and
blocks are getting set to give the incumbent a run for his money.

However if feelers on ground are anything to go by, then Ogbeni
Aregbesola may have a lot to contend with. “If you conduct an opinion
poll now in Osun State, the definite answer you will get is that they we
are tired of Aregbesola. We are only waiting for the right time which is
around the corner. Aregbe has stepped on many toes in Osun State and
religious people followed him the first time because they believed he
was a devoted Muslim but, they were all disappointed in him”, the
source, a devout Muslim from Iwo said.

As it stands, except a miracle happens or the governor makes an urgent
u-turn, he may be as good as gone as the PDP and its stalwarts have
concluded plans to work together irrespective of interest, to unseat him
come 2014. And the calibre of these people is certainly intimidating.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Segun-Akinwusi/1376151635956042

Op and the author failed with your unfounded allegations. Rauf is the best Governor to ever come out of Osun State since the states was created.

OP, clap for yourself.


One thing you should now is that IF an election is to be held this night in Osun State, its gonna be a landslide victory for ogbeni. There's practically no opposition in Osun State. Even folks here in Okuku (Oyinlola home town) will vote for Aregbesola anytime anyday.

Hatred is a very bad disease, it kills faster

geeez: Okay we've heard but that didn't stop the state from having the fourth largest GDP in southern Nigeria for 2012 behind Lagos, Rivers and Oyo

It also didn't stop the state from increasing its IGR from N300m to N1.6bn per month in less than 3 years (Currently the state with the third largest IGR in Nigeria after Lagos at almost N30bn and Ogun at N4bn monthly)

If these landmark achievements are another word for looting, then let him loot your vain expectations to the very last penny

where did you get your stats from? did u pull it off your butt hole?

geeez: Okay we've heard but that didn't stop the state from having the fourth largest GDP in southern Nigeria for 2012 behind Lagos, Rivers and Oyo

It also didn't stop the state from increasing its IGR from N300m to N1.6bn per month in less than 3 years (Currently the state with the third largest IGR in Nigeria after Lagos at almost N30bn and Ogun at N4bn monthly)

If these landmark achievements are another word for looting, then let him loot your vain expectations to the very last penny

this same IGR dat doesnt relate to what is on ground.
D same IGR dat d osun masses dont feel,
if u want to defend d guy(which on its own aint an abomination) , talk sth more tangible.

ketoprofen:

this same IGR dat doesnt relate to what is on ground.
D same IGR dat d osun masses dont feel,
if u want to defend d guy(which on its own aint an abomination) , talk sth more tangible.

why do u so much hate the SW?

Am waiting for your death news..PDP GOON..OLORIBURUKU......When u were the head of civil service in the state,I could remember how u used to Bleep bitches and uselessly flaunt around.If u are broke ,u better go do BLOOD MONEY IN ANAMBRA STATE.AREGBESOLA WILL SURELY WIN AGAIN AND AGAIN.PLZ for all guyz on NL,kindly ask this guy that where are the stadia buit by PDP GOVT then in OSUN STATE which amount to13.38 billions of naira which was clearly embezzled by theTHEN PDP GOVERNMENT.AKINWUSI WILL NOT DIE BUT BE ON STROKE WHEN AREGBESOLA ARANSIOLA RAUF WINS AGAIN AND AGAIN.THANKZ

certainly... D writer were paid to cook up dis falsehood to bring down our one nd only OGBENI... If at all d writer is correct concernin demolitn, should govt ignore capital project that will benefit d whole state just because of few people whose work were affected Well, it happens, people said d same tin whn Ajimobi denolished some shops for road extentn nd beutificatn in ibadan... If lagos had acted on d yearnin of few people, lagos would nt have been wht it is 2day in terms of infrastructure... Dis writeup is full of unfortunate lies sponsored by d oppositn... Ogbeni carry go joooorrrr

When every comment on your thread oppose your post... you need to check your self...
At least i know that this present governor is working far better than the former by a very wide margin..

@op have you eaten?.

wat du u expect,he want cheap popularity in other hand he aspiring for d governorship under UPN or wetin dem call am.segun akinwusi,u don mad o

Life is too short for one to start reading that epistle!!! It even started with his life history!?

In Yoruba land, it is widely believed and accepted that ' oruko rere san ju wura ati fadaka lo'....a good name is better than riches.

If i were this OP and the author, i would have rejected the money from the opposition to expose my foolishness to the whole wide world

Then, it is only a bastard that describes his father's house with his left hand..another Yoruba proverb.

This is gross display of foolishness. The author shld be tried for the crime of stupid!ty!

Tell me, in the SW, which past governor did better than the current ones we are having?

These brainless and clueless PDP want us to remain premitive for life,I can't believe it that Osun is more than 22years and nothing to show for it and Osogbo can't be called a state capital ,no development and PDP care not.Only what they know is the Pepper soup joint politics,eat and drink and no plan for tomorow.Carry on Aregbesola,second time no shaking."Ori baba won o si nbe".

Aregbeshola all the way @op come and eat my sh*t

Useless and jobless Op.


It appears now that u are a deluded failure with a pathetic life

sw leaders ar all looters frm d likes of obj,Tinubu,fashode n dis one called ogbeni

cashkid18: sw leaders ar all looters frm d likes of obj,Tinubu,fashode n dis one called ogbeni

bt i tell u one pass one.OGBENI carry on jare...even oppositns also aware na AREGBE sure past... #2014 no qualms

Honestly i just waste my time reading ds rubbish , I thought i will read something meaningfull. They perceive scam here and there yet they cannot file case at the law court rather they will file their case on the pages of social media. Atleast they claim Jagaban installed Justice Salami, now Justice Salami is no more there yet they are still afraid of going to court . Total rubbish.
Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola ma be ise re lo.
Ipinle Osun oni daru.
God bless SW

So Far So Good.. I Love Hw Ma Fellow NLanders Replied The Fvcktard Dat Posted Ds Crap.

Aregbeshola.. Aswear Dat Name Sweet Die!!

Omisore o, Fatai Akinbade o, Oyinlola o, Gbogbo Won Ti Jawe Olu Bodi!!!


What More Can I Say!??

Aregbe2014! Go-on Sounnnnnnnn!!

cashkid18: sw leaders ar all looters frm d likes of obj,Tinubu,fashode n dis one called ogbeni

can u memtion 1 governor 4rm ur region dat r performing better dan SW governors!! It very possible you are living in SW!!! Hater hug ur self.

cashkid18: sw leaders ar all looters frm d likes of obj,Tinubu,fashode n dis one called ogbeni

can u mention 1 governor 4rm ur region dat r performing better dan SW governors!! It very possible you are living in SW!!! Hater hug ur self.

seriously, we celebrate trash in this country. nobody should come here and start with tribal ish, cos am yoruba and i know what am saying. first, you might not have had it as good as this before,but he is being paid to work for his people. so much expectations on him,but the truth is he is guilty of non-performance same as all the block heads called governors spread over the country, the president not excluded.
my point, leave semtiments and face reality, all these leaders are thieves and dont have our best interest at heart. am inclined to want to believe what the op has posted, because all such rumours have been found out to be true

delvinmaya: seriously, we celebrate trash in this country. nobody should come here and start with tribal ish, cos am yoruba and i know what am saying. first, you might not have had it as good as this before,but he is being paid to work for his people. so much expectations on him,but the truth is he is guilty of non-performance same as all the block heads called governors spread over the country, the president not excluded.
my point, leave semtiments and face reality, all these leaders are thieves and dont have our best interest at heart. am inclined to want to believe what the op has posted, because all such rumours have been found out to be true

You're inclined to believe what the foolish OP posted because you're a dunce who is incapable of logical thought. A cretin without the ability to separate facts from fiction.

malc619:

You're inclined to believe what the foolish OP posted because you're a dunce who is incapable of logical thought. A cretin without the ability to separate facts from fiction.

well thought,well written,well edited

Some people have been bewitched.

What a pity?

I know most people won't face reality...if you have been to uniosun osogbo campus then you will pity us. The state own university road is rubbish yet they Are constructing roads for some streets that Are not necessary. during oyinlolas regime uniosun was far mode better than now.

let stop sentiments...say the fact..

mightyfada: I know most people won't face reality...if you have been to uniosun osogbo campus then you will pity us. The state own university road is rubbish yet they Are constructing roads for some streets that Are not necessary. during oyinlolas regime uniosun was far mode better than now.

let stop sentiments...say the fact..

xcus bros.op u hvnt heard d road hs bin awardd to d contractor.u wan make d governor do am himself?

yetunsbay: xcus bros.op u hvnt heard d road hs bin awardd to d contractor.u wan make d governor do am himself?

Its not the road...cause am a student of the uni...its coming from osbc to the school gate not from the school junction that is the main. If you Are a student in the uni definately u will understand what am saying

malc619:

You're inclined to believe what the foolish OP posted because you're a dunce who is incapable of logical thought. A cretin without the ability to separate facts from fiction.

seeing as you are a ne'er do well, whose hopes , dreams, ambitions, future were mortgaged for a cup of garri, i would have expected that you respect my opinion and my right to air it regardless of your stupidness. seeing as you and that tout of a governor are related, i understand your pain. a relief would be that you go hang yourself, fool.

mightyfada:
Its not the road...cause am a student of the uni...its coming from osbc to the school gate not from the school junction that is the main. If you Are a student in the uni definately u will understand what am saying

dat u re a student doesnt mean u shld knw all.I guess u neva check d sch site wen it was postd there dat its bin awardd.In anoda dvlpmt am also a student,if u knw COA

instead of u guys to tackle d op base on d highlighted point... Sm baseless ppl here 'll be speakin thrases... I'll suggest u all come to Osun state to check out d facts 4 urself...