So now it's here. It's been much awaited, much discussed, tentatively anticipated, and very very much prepared for.. By the players, but as a citizen of the state once a living spring, the electorate don't seem to realise they are pieces;playing cards in the hands of the players
THE PLAYERS: A CLASH OF KINGS
Any body will be forgiven for forgetting there are more than two players. In fact, many don't know. But a lone poster or flyer, or two, with the words FADAHUNSI and GOVERNOR, serve as intermittent reminders of the fact that there are more than 2,or 3,or 4 aspirants to the iron throne. The simple fact is just that only 1 person can sit on the throne of power, pain and pressure, whose holder rules and command the affairs of the state, and that there are but two real contenders for the seat of power, two people whose relationship with each other has been heated, scorched, and tempered with hate, contempt,words, violence and blood through a political period of rivalry. Two people who know each other only too well. Two men who differ in style , approach, and purpose. One coming through from years and seasons of allegations, attacks, imprisonment denial, despair, disappointment, dissatisfaction, and betrayal. And engraved amongst those,release upheaval, delight, determination,demand,power and authority, influence and affluence, reason,and dare I say it MONEY! lot's and lot's of MONEY.
The other though, to many average Osun citizens like me, was much unknown while he was a commissioner in Lagos. He bust, no, blew into sudden limelight in the election season of the state in 2007,when, competing under the banners of the Action congress, AC(which is essentially a redesign of the previously ousted AD, then represented by it's gubernatorial candidate and ex governor Bisi Akande, who is currently the national leader of the party's now again redesigned appearance, The APC, or is he still?) against the then incumbent governor, prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who was a candidate of the PDP. After being declared vanquished, he was declared Victor 3 years later in controversial circumstances, by the appeal court, and judge (Ayo?) Salami,who has since been debarred. Well, he became governor, voted in, supposedly, in an election where cutlasses and guns were more of the electorate than the human partakers, used by.. Both parties actually. Well let's forget those now, it's a new season, where the election peacekeepers will probably outnumber the electorate. Whatever whatever.
So in a couple of days,the good people of osun state ,male and female, old and young, politically enlightened and the politically bigoted, the wise and the foolish dickheads (we have an especially high number of the later): will all get the chance to choose our next leader and(Or) dictator. With the kinda electorate we have in osun state, I can only tremble and bite my nails to the quilt at the prospect. A grizzly prospect it is when you see people who claim that a collapsed building was bombed, and spread the word about a conspiracy to destroy a school hall with an atomic bomb..
So, who is it gonna be, Iyiola Omisore or Rauf Aregbesola? Will it be "eyan iyi" or oranmiyan?
Next part: the last few months : political propaganda, and election politics

the whole write up seems neutral but there are still elements of politics which favours APC but my brothers and sisters IYIOLA OMISORE IS THE RIGHT CANDIDATE

hopelink1: the whole write up seems neutral but there are still elements of politics which favours APC but my brothers and sisters IYIOLA OMISORE IS THE RIGHT CANDIDATE

You had better don't waste your vote. Aregbesola is the man of the people , by the people and for the people.

cyril83:

You had better don't waste your vote. Aregbesola is the man of the people , by the people and for the people.

May OGUN and SANGO give you dirty slap

hopelink1: May OGUN and SANGO give you dirty slap

May Ebola virus be your portion and your life time generation.

You seemed neutral but your write up is against APC. Anyway, Aregbesola is the man of the people. my first vote is for Ogbeni, Ona baba Ona. I have felt his Government in many ways. May God bless him.

cyril83:

May Ebola virus be your portion and your life time generation.

shit be upon you!!!!!!!!!!

hopelink1: shit be upon you!!!!!!!!!!

Vaffanculo!

cyril83:

Vaffanculo!

vaffaculo not vanffanculo

cyril83:

Vaffanculo!

what are you doing on internet till now if not that you want to watch pornography

A STORM OF WORDS (AND SWORDS)

From bike riding, village touring, and popcorn munching in public, to ridiculous primary school uniform wearing and declaring ghetto gangster status, the two real contenders contend for a favourable place in the hearts of the electorate. I mean, there are those who , on account of the congos of rice and bits of the state cake,would love to vote for both candidates. Suddenly all workers are getting paid, and a month to election day roads leading to the home, or house, of the speaker of the house of Representatives, Hon. Najeem Salaam (which happens to be my radius, in a manner of speaking) are getting renovated, and all after 3 and half years of fulfilling promises of full salary payments, all roads in the state being made good, or better, better state of living for all, and clean water, and of course - employment and youth empowerment. Some have been truly fulfilled-unicef water pumps everywhere, some get the privileged of seeing the place their homes once stood now inhabited by beautiful flowers (Or promises of them), workers are still working, with regular payments being made in the form of excuses (until a month to the election of course), and in a feat unprecedented, our youths are employed, dutifully sweeping roads and cleaning gutters. It's all for our good though. Even the state treasury is cleaner(if you get my meaning) , I'm sure y'all know that.
So much talk has been going on too. Rumours fly around and if you've been conversant with your radio, and OSBC, you realise the government isn't ignorant. Claims, then counterclaims, and argument against the plans of the opposition to make the government unpopular by spreading rumours. Once, the government's O'meal project was criticized and accused of importing food materials like eggs and meat from Lagos, and it was immediately discredited by the government via radio, stating that those are being catered for by the O'meal committee, who we were told, get those aforementioned at the Agric campus of the state university - the osun state university, with the Agric satellite campus sited in Ejigbo, osun state. The problem with this simple explanation though, which is quite comical, is that a close relative, an extremely close relative (not wanting to describe relationship with relative for reasons some can guess) is a student at the satellite campus. I have been to the campus several times, and I can tell you positively that the state feeds pupils all over the state everyday with eggs from less than 50 chickens, and meat from an herd of about 50–60 cows. So we can assume that the government of the state actually rely every day on Jesus christ to multiply two eggs and five chunks of meat to feed a couple thousand hungry kids every day. I'm sure the good Lord would have turned down such contract, since he could guess they would claim the miracle was performed by the O'meal committee, and every broken egg blamed on the opposition.
Then of course the opposition, lacking in reach compared to the government who have the radio and television to themselves, start manufacturing testimonies, cooking up delicious rumours of all kinds. The government sings their own songs of praise of praise for the good work of the governor, with all sorts of jingles telling people why they should vote for the right party (which is always said to be the incumbent). Every time you hear a jingle on OSBC or UNIQUE FM that isn't about commercial enterprises, which is scarce enough, it is about the coming election, and voting for the right party. Even the newscasts are about praising the government and defaming and defacing the opposition. And you can guess what all programmes are about.. In fact, the media is so propaganda driven, and one sided, that the broadcasting organisation of Nigeria, BON, has reportedly issued warnings to the state media, threatening to shut them down if they continue down the same road. The chants, songs, slogans, and 'paid messages' continue though. A reporter at one of state media houses has been reported to have admitted to the fact of popular reports that the state dictates to their directors what they must and must not say..

hopelink1: what are you doing on internet till now if not that you want to watch pornography

Indecency ? When i have my hot pully right beside me in bed.

cyril83:

Indecency ? When i have my hot pully right beside me in bed.

This is the lifestyle of an average APC member , people I say this is the lifestyle of an average APC member

hopelink1: This is the lifestyle of an average APC member , people I say this is the lifestyle of an average APC member

If watching indecency or riding slacked/marooned pully is the lifestyle of Pdp members, then i would love to die with the progressives.

W

elfaez: A STORM OF WORDS (AND SWORDS)

From bike riding, village touring, and popcorn munching in public, to ridiculous primary school uniform wearing and declaring ghetto gangster status, the two real contenders contend for a favourable place in the hearts of the electorate. I mean, there are those who , on account of the congos of rice and bits of the state cake,would love to vote for both candidates. Suddenly all workers are getting paid, and a month to election day roads leading to the home, or house, of the speaker of the house of Representatives, Hon. Najeem Salaam (which happens to be my radius, in a manner of speaking) are getting renovated, and all after 3 and half years of fulfilling promises of full salary payments, all roads in the state being made good, or better, better state of living for all, and clean water, and of course - employment and youth empowerment. Some have been truly fulfilled-unicef water pumps everywhere, some get the privileged of seeing the place their homes once stood now inhabited by beautiful flowers (Or promises of them), workers are still working, with regular payments being made in the form of excuses (until a month to the election of course), and in a feat unprecedented, our youths are employed, dutifully sweeping roads and cleaning gutters. It's all for our good though. Even the state treasury is cleaner(if you get my meaning) , I'm sure y'all know that.
So much talk has been going on too. Rumours fly around and if you've been conversant with your radio, and OSBC, you realise the government isn't ignorant. Claims, then counterclaims, and argument against the plans of the opposition to make the government unpopular by spreading rumours. Once, the government's O'meal project was criticized and accused of importing food materials like eggs and meat from Lagos, and it was immediately discredited by the government via radio, stating that those are being catered for by the O'meal committee, who we were told, get those aforementioned at the Agric campus of the state university - the osun state university, with the Agric satellite campus sited in Ejigbo, osun state. The problem with this simple explanation though, which is quite comical, is that a close relative, an extremely close relative (not wanting to describe relationship with relative for reasons some can guess) is a student at the satellite campus. I have been to the campus several times, and I can tell you positively that the state feeds pupils all over the state everyday with eggs from less than 50 chickens, and meat from an herd of about 50–60 cows. So we can assume that the government of the state actually rely every day on Jesus christ to multiply two eggs and five chunks of meat to feed a couple thousand hungry kids every day. I'm sure the good Lord would have turned down such contract, since he could guess they would claim the miracle was performed by the O'meal committee, and every broken egg blamed on the opposition.
Then of course the opposition, lacking in reach compared to the government who have the radio and television to themselves, start manufacturing testimonies, cooking up delicious rumours of all kinds. The government sings their own songs of praise of praise for the good work of the governor, with all sorts of jingles telling people why they should vote for the right party (which is always said to be the incumbent). Every time you hear a jingle on OSBC or UNIQUE FM that isn't about commercial enterprises, which is scarce enough, it is about the coming election, and voting for the right party. Even the newscasts are about praising the government and defaming and defacing the opposition. And you can guess what all programmes are about.. In fact, the media is so propaganda driven, and one sided, that the broadcasting organisation of Nigeria, BON, has reportedly issued warnings to the state media, threatening to shut them down if they continue down the same road. The chants, songs, slogans, and 'paid messages' continue though. A reporter at one of state media houses has been reported to have admitted to the fact of popular reports that the state dictates to their directors what they must and must not say..

Lol you don craze no be small

Cont'd .. but all in all though, Aregbesola is working, and walking. Implementation of corps, like O'yes for the young and unemployed, O'elders for the old, aged (and connected), O'reap for agricultural development, O'farmer for more.... Farmers, O'clean to clean up what the O'yes forgot to clean, O'meal to feed schoolkids, O'health so more people will need and get treatment :-D, O'ambulance for... Ehm ambulances and ambulance drivers, O'tech, O'church, O'mosque, O'task..
For those who do not know, senator Iyiola Omisore has his own youth empowerment scheme, and it's been functional for some time . God knows till when
So is the petty politics going on in the state. Everyone trying hard to help people help them to the seat of power. And people think it is for their own good! Not everything is going to endear you to people though, eating popcorn in public for example.
So you have a case where someone uses propaganda in attempts to get a hold of power, while the other uses propaganda to try to keep hold of it. And what serves to show people you're helping them, and working hard, than to declare it everywhere? A thousand billboards, and ten thousand posters per LGA. In significance terms, you've got ten thousand pictures of the same face per LGA. And what serves more to discredit than rumours? Rumours of sacrifices and rituals,of demonic symbolism in flag and coat of arms, of tyranny and oppression, and of impending doom should the incumbent governor win again. So many rumours you don't know what to believe, and too many denials of a single crime you start to believe they did it. I ask if you stole my yams, and then you deny stealing my harvest!
After 3 and half years, we are still being told of how the government has rectified grievous errors of the past government. In fact, more emphasis is being laid on the mistakes of the past government than the successes of the present - which are few enough - free uniforms, O'yes, and the "opon imo" tablet. Those who expected a permanent placement of the customized pads were disappointed when they realised they'll be returning them after completing SS3,and I do not know a student who received the first free set of uniforms who has not purchased a new one, since the uniform clothing tears easily and fades out after about 9 washes. Some have had to buy new uniforms twice, thrice, or even more. The cost of making a new high school uniform is the price needed for making two of the previous ones. But then that makes you remember a certain tenure that never bothered to give anyone uniforms.
But then, as the two elephants engage in wrestlemania, how are the grasses faring? Next :a feast for crows and vultures

A FEAST ON CROWS, VULTURES, AND GOATS
While it is a simple fact that elections in Nigeria are known for one thing apart from election fraud-violence, some seem bothered by the fact that the federal government has provided adequate (compared to previous elections) security, culminating in the dispatching of a large (by some accounts, very large) security personel force. There have been statements made disputing the move, claiming that they have been dispatched to scare people off. A similar phenomenon was enacted in neighbouring Ekiti state, where a shock result placed the opposing PDP back in power. So it can be assumed, or deducted, that the prospect of a similar occurrence is scaring some quarters into making statements laden with an apparent fear of tight security preventing any electioneering misconducts.
And in the same vein, those who are citizens of sucha town as Ejigbo and it's several suburbs can testify to seeing a whole lot of new,strange faces these days. People you've never met before, who don't seem to know anything about town, arriving and claiming to be descendants of ejigbo compounds. People who have not been in Nigeria since they were conceived arrive in town, and pointing to paternal or maternal chronology as membership passports. And it ain't as if they came home for their families, they've arrived to help in the electioneering process - rented voters
There's been too many bags of rice flying around town, distributed by the bowls to the electorate, to.. Ehm.. Give them 'strength' and 'purpose' on the day of the Lord. Nice. In fact, your house will probably be visited next, by party agents who will bless you and your family with money and a message.
What some of our state's plentiful hicks do not know, or remember, is this:if they only do it to win your votes to get into power, they will NOT continue once they get there. This guys give us a bowl of rice each for the meals we should have enjoyed for the past 3 and half years, and a couple thousand naira for the comfort and security we should have got for all these years. If they had the power to give us money and food all this time, why now? Why ONLY now? They knew people needed food and comfortable living all along, but they didn't give them to us, and instead of shiny faces and full bellies, they have provided us with a meal and some money to spend on Eid-il-whatever. When next do we get the next bowl of food and wad of cash ? Wait till the next election campaign, in like.. 4 years. We sure won't starve before then shall we?
For every Congo of rice we get, they've kept 10 bags for themselves. Yet, as the elephants stamp on us and crush the grasses, the grasses kill and maim each other over which elephant wins. As the oppressors keep oppressing, the oppressed machete themselves over who gets to oppress next. As the elephants fought, the grasses suffered and fought themselves to continue the suffering...
Next : A valley of the shadow of death

Brb

And it seems like, since there will be very tight security during the election processing on the 9th of August, people who were probably planning to engage in violent acts on election day have rather decided on unleashing mayhem BEFORE the appointed day. Reports are already rife detailing accounts of poster tearing rampages and violent clashes and charm testing and weapons importing.... So if you are in the state of osun right now, BE YE WARNED! The state of the 'omoluabi' isn't exactly filled with such, and strange death are occurring quite very intermittently ;a woman who just delivery a baby was found dead last week, that could happen anyhow else, but committing suicide ON A PAWPAW TREE is some strange way to die, and for a woman who is still celebrating the birth of her baby...
3 ghastly auto accidents in the space of two to three hours, and all in same vicinity,well... So if you gat relatives down/up here, be as kind as to warn them. May the good Lord be with us all.

One Good Term Deserves Another.

Brimmie: One Good Term Deserves Another.

One noisy term you mean ?
Being 100% Osun (father, mother, wife, children) I have as much stake in the welfare of the state as anyone alive and I say Aregbesola has been a complete failure who has so far been kept upright by hot air. If he wins I hope he does better next term. This one has been a rule by mass media ... rule by deceit.... . If he doesn't win I take it that God has given us a more promising replacement.

felifeli:
One noisy term you mean ?
Being 100% Osun (father, mother, wife, children) I have as much stake in the welfare of the state as anyone alive and I say Aregbesola has been a complete failure who has so far been kept upright by hot air. If he wins I hope he does better next term. This one has been a rule by mass media ... rule by deceit.... . If he doesn't win I take it that God has given us a more promising replacement.

Tell me that was a Joke!?

felifeli:
One noisy term you mean ?
Being 100% Osun (father, mother, wife, children) I have as much stake in the welfare of the state as anyone alive and I say Aregbesola has been a complete failure who has so far been kept upright by hot air. If he wins I hope he does better next term. This one has been a rule by mass media ... rule by deceit.... . If he doesn't win I take it that God has given us a more promising replacement.

PDP boy. Which replacement? Is it that selfish double-corn eating gluton? You missed the road.

mogentle:
PDP boy. Which replacement? Is it that selfish double-corn eating gluton? You missed the road.

Kindly remain civil. You are entitled to your choice and I to mine. Oju orun to eye fo lai fara kan ra

In your dream. Are u talking of a man whose exit is already being celebrated in Osun. August 9 is almost here. Ojo lope, ipade o jinna

cyril83:

You had better don't waste your vote. Aregbesola is the man of the people , by the people and for the people.

Ni Ipinle Osun, we are sick and tired of Ogbeni!. We can't wait to see him go back to Lagos where he comes from. I can't wait to hear my state being addressed as "the state of the living spring" again. Yes, omoluabi ni wa but we don't need an atohunrinwa/opportunist to re-name us. Eyin ara Eko, e ku amojuba after August 9.

Hey guys, how about this. State the party and candidate you would choose to vote for. Citizens of other states could join in too. Let's see if a candidate gets a majority of endorsement. It's Aregbesola vs Omisore
Let the race begin!

Personally, I'd vote for... I'd rather not vote actually.

But really, what has Aregbesola done in all his 3+ years in office other than remodeling the state's appearance, make the state richer in debts, and cover the state in posters? Yea sure he created more employment opportunities by creating corps like the O'yes, O'reap etc. But, what's really in it for people? I mean, if we get more people working, and workers not getting payed, you just get more empty pockets, less money in circulation , and more people screaming down the government's throat! And with this sudden increase in taxation (Or taxation plans) and taxing avenues..
And then, what will Omisore do but reverse Aregbesola's reforms, and resume the norms of PDP rule, viz:less development and corruption?

elfaez: But really, what has Aregbesola done in all his 3+ years in office other than remodeling the state's appearance, make the state richer in debts, and cover the state in posters? Yea sure he created more employment opportunities by creating corps like the O'yes, O'reap etc. But, what's really in it for people? I mean, if we get more people working, and workers not getting payed, you just get more empty pockets, less money in circulation , and more people screaming down the government's throat! And with this sudden increase in taxation (Or taxation plans) and taxing avenues..
And then, what will Omisore do but reverse Aregbesola's reforms, and resume the norms of PDP rule, viz:less development and corruption?

You got it right mate ; whichever way it goes Osun State people are FVCKED !