dayokanu:

Yes oooooooo

Nothing do u as long as the pay good.....

But bros come, I fit bring ACN come east if una pay me correct ego, we go commot APGA and PDP. How you reason am?

igbo boy:

Nothing do u as long as the pay good.....

But bros come, I fit bring ACN come east if una pay me correct ego, we go commot APGA and PDP. How you reason am?

Na Chris Ngige dey in charge of ACN SE.

Talk to him

dayokanu:

Na Chris Ngige dey in charge of ACN SE.

Talk to him

that fake guy? I know una want delta as we close to Edo it is only rational.

I dey give you double opportunity as an Igbo boy (you fit capture east) and a delta state indigene (you fit capture SS big boy), so you fit kill two birds with one stone....#thinkam

igbo boy:

Nothing do u as long as the pay good.....

But bros come, I fit bring ACN come east if una pay me correct ego, we go commot APGA and PDP. How you reason am?

you self won chop your own, chop make i chop

Paul John:

you self won chop your own, chop make i chop

I bow to you o..before nko.

Be like say Asiwaju Tinubu dey share money so its only right I talk to his boys to see how far?

Paul John:

Bro you no do your research well o. OAU(Obafemi Awolowo University.A K A Oba Awon University ) is paying not up to [i]N[/i]8000 per year, go confirm.

D last time I checked OAU na Federal Govt Uni

Paul John:

Bro you no do your research well o. OAU(Obafemi Awolowo University.A K A Oba Awon University ) is paying not up to [i]N[/i]8000 per year, go confirm.

D last time I checked OAU na fed uni

I live in ak,mimiko is a thief.my dad retired last year,august to b precise,it took em 8 mnths to start paying his pension nd till nw he s yet to cllt his gratuity,I fnk am going wif can dis tym.mst of u dnt knw wat s goin on,d man s very corrupt but I must also commend him 4 some visible projects

Mimiko, Akeredolu both Tinubu stooges, For Ondo to move forward vote my Man, Olushola Oke, this saves you 2 Billion yearly to Tinubu.

seankay:
I live in ak,mimiko is a thief.my dad retired last year,august to b precise,it took em 8 mnths to start paying his pension nd till nw he s yet to cllt his gratuity,I fnk am going wif can dis tym.mst of u dnt knw wat s goin on,d man s very corrupt but I must also commend him 4 some visible projects

If Mimiko is a thief for the reason you have written, then Tinubu/Fashola are hardened criminals. My own mum retired in 2005 and she has not received her gratuity. It was only in May that she started receiving her pension.

pcicero:


If Mimiko is a thief for the reason you have written, then Tinubu/Fashola are hardened criminals. My own mum retired in 2005 and she has not received her gratuity. It was only in May that she started receiving her pension.

You ignorant illiterates and your misplaced anger. You people are so shallow that you blame everything on your preferred boggiemen when in fact, other people are responsible for your miseries. Guess what? The federal government stopped paying into Lagos state pension fund, same year your mom retired and your mom obviously as you said is now collecting her dues because the federal government just approved payments this year.


Now, be a man and apologize to the 2 men for your ignorant outburst.

FG owes Lagos N11.2bn pension arrears – Commissioner


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Lagos State Commissioner for Establishment, Pensions and Training, Mrs Florence Oguntuase, said on Thursday that the Federal Government owed pensioners in the state N11.2bn.

Addressing a ministerial news briefing in Ikeja, the commissioner said the amount represented seven years accumulated pension benefits of state government pensioners, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

According to the commissioner, N1.1bn and N10.1bn had been verified and approved for reimbursement to pensioners in the state and its local governments, respectively.

Oguntuase said, “These figures are cumulative from 2005 and have been verified and they are with them in Abuja but we don’t know when they would pay.

http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-owes-lagos-n11-2bn-pension-arrears-commissioner/

We are so quick to forget:

I quote Mimiko in 2007 "Anybody scheming for anoda term is either bereft of ideas or has unprogressive plan. Its a GOV to a term. Anyone who forces himself on d people under d 2nd term guise will find shame waiting for him. I believe our people are wiser & sophisticated". ----------Governor Olusegun Rahman Mimiko in his campaign interview on NTA Akure ,7pm on April 9,2007

vemma


it is hard for acn to win in ondo state.. very hard.. you have to know most people in ondo state dont like tinubu.. you see most yorubas dont like the over burden of lagos politician on yorubaland. that as lead to no development in other part of yorubaland. while lagos got all the project. leaving the others with nothing.. this is why they dont favour lagos politicians..

you have to understand that lagos is just 1 town in over 6000 yorubaland.. and most people dont know or like lagos poltician. because lagos politician dont look out for Yoruba people. They are only focus on lagos.. you can see fashola saying they should not create state. while really yoruba are been cheated in state creation.

And it is more easy ruling lagos than other state in Yorubaland. You can not compare ruling a state with 1000 towns and ruling lagos. just one city.. there is no comparison.

musiwa.:

vemma


it is hard for acn to win in ondo state.. very hard.. you have to know most people in ondo state dont like tinubu.. you see most yorubas dont like the over burden of lagos politician on yorubaland. that as lead to no development in other part of yorubaland. while lagos got all the project. leaving the others with nothing.. this is why they dont favour lagos politicians..

you have to understand that lagos is just 1 town in over 6000 yorubaland.. and most people dont know this lagos poltician.

Is lagos state responsible for other states and their development? Is lagos state responsible the substandard village projects in ondo state?

Eko Ile:

Is lagos state responsible for other states and their development? Is lagos state responsible the substandard village projects in ondo state?

There is no need to put down other SW states just because they are not ACN controlled states.

lagos state is not but lagos politician play game and hug. . most yoruba believe that lagos politician are selfish and self centre. and that they dont give a shit about other yorubaland. Look it is more easy for me to win Yorubaland than Tinubu or fashola .. that should give you a clue to how other Yorubas feel. You have to understand yoruba politics that is why tinubu never ran for president because he will not be able to win yorubaland.. Look at it this way. for 6 year. tinubu could not win a state in Yorubaland. does that not tell you a story. I know the people behind the winning. The people behind it want me to run for president because I will win. And with my knowledge of satellite pictures.. And international media behind me. It will be impossible for them to claim, they won. look Goodluck can not win an election in nigeria.. If Goodluck claim he won. there will be violent all over nigeria. His govt has been destroying Yoruba people business. they want him out because if they return , they will do worst. You have to understand nigeria politics. if i say, they should make thing difficult for ACN or PDP, none of them will win. Look I will win the whole of Yoruba ahead of him.. even in lagos. You see unilag rename. Guess what?

and you have to know 80% of yorubas dont live in lagos. Look at the satellite pictures..

you see the ACN leader is Bisi Akande and not tinubu, but some lagos ACN are claiming that it is Tinubu is that fair to others. Other people are looking at you.

I dont know how you people think.. you see how Goodluck was treated in edo and he lost.

Katsumoto:

There is no need to put down other SW states just because they are not ACN controlled states.

I'm not putting any state down because of any political party, I'm a SW'ner and political parties are just political parties. I haven't promoted any party in this thread and I haven't even uttered the phrase ACN or LP, it's all about the capability of the man or woman in charge to deliver on behalf of the people of the SW regardless of their political affiliations.

It's absolutely inexcusable to condone or overlook the lousy and substandard projects the government of Ondo state is pursuing or the ones delivered based on the resources available to the government and the people of Ondo state.

It makes no difference who is the governor of Ondo or the ruling party, if the governor is performing very well, good and if not, then step aside and let a better hand take over even if that better hand is PDP.

Even with Lagos State, I know they are not perfect, but I support them not only because it's my state, but also because I see everyday what they are doing with the taxes they collect from the working people of Lagos state and if it's the other way around, I rail against them same way. I don't even mention political parties when I talk about Lagos State so I don't see where you get all that from.

You should look beyond parties and concentrate more on the welfare and development of the people of SW.

those of you that think Mimiko is not working, please before going to ondo state to see things for yourself, google out is achivement and compare it with what you see when you get there, from the mega primary school, to abiye meternity clinic and provisiion of free transportation to students, the school fees of adekunle ajasin university, provision of market and park to ease traffic in the state capital and road constructions. you will then know if there is any ACN governor you can compare him with in terms of performance. the man is not only working on infrastructure like some ACN performing governor but touching every area and you can feel his impact in all the segment.

Eko Ile:


Please stop the with the weak talk abeg. This is the internet age, not the stone age. Projects are brick and mortar siting on earth soil, not some invisible or below the ground objects.

Whatever projects Ondo state commissioned or is embarking on is on the state's website and it's the same Micky Mouse, substandard and pretentious projects, they are basically lousy reflections of the huge budget in terms of the little population and demand.


These are some of the projects on the state's website...

A set of completed housing units at Oba-Ile, Akure



Mother and Child Hospital, Oke-Aro, Akure

those pictures u have there were pictures of these projects when the government was jux 3months old. the mother and child hospital oke aro is very close to my house and i know its present state and its been functioning for more that 2years nw. bro, the pictures u have there are not mini projects of the state government not to mention being the major projects. its a shame thats all u could get from ur so called internet!

It will be so sad if Ondo people allow ACN to win all in the name of being integrated with the entire South West. ACN is all media hype!!. I am not a stakeholder in Ondo State as I am from Oyo State. We expected so much from ACN government here but so far it's a huge dissapointment.

They claim they provide 20,000 (O-yes)jobs, when in actual sense, the staffs are not being paid their paltry salaries. They are constructing fly-over at Mokola, when people in various places in Ibadan are being killed by flood due mainly to drainage problem, which they have failed to address so far. They are specialist in sending people on Jamboree Mission, the latest which happens to be the wife of the Legislators being sent to the UK in order to be able to assist their husbands in making Laws!!!. Oyo State is being run like a private organisation with no free hand being given to the commissioners to function. Everything is being run by the Governor and his wife.

ACN is just largely hyped in the media. Anybody is free to call me names, but I have just told you the gospel truth about happenings in Oyo state and you can come over to verify my claims. It's just so sad that we expected so much from ACN, after WE VOTED out the wasteful PDP in power but they deliver so so little.

If the people of Oyo State get half of what Mimiko has achieved in Ondo state, we will be more than satisfied.

Ondo people, shine your eyes o!!

PStylish:

And that's the mistake Mimiko is making.

He prefers to be the emperor of Labour Party other than a prominent stakeholder in ACN (the party of the Yorubas and Edos).

Afterall, Oshiomhole, though an ACN governor, doesn't bow to or take orders from Tinubu. He runs the Edo show independently. Can't Mimiko do the same in Ondo as an ACN governor? Only Fashola and Aregbesola can be said to be Tinubu's boys of all the ACN governors. Others are pretty independent. Infact, Amosun even seems to romance more with OBJ than Tinubu.Amosun is OBJ's boy.

Mimiko is a right man in the wrong party.

For crying out loud, why should Ondo state be the odd state in the SW and the whole federation?

LP has no presence elsewhere in the country aside Ondo state and it has an Igbo chairman.The consequence of that scenario is as follows:
1. As the sole LP state, Ondo state govt funds LP nationwide.

2. With the party having an Igbo chairman, the Igbos have been enjoying what should be the birthright of citizens like (political appointments, contracts and what have you) more than they would normally enjoy on a good day. Hence, I'm not surprised Igbos support him.

Mimiko is doing well no doubt. But can we be sure he'll keep it up or increase the pace when he eventually gets the 2nd term? Methinks he'll just relax. Nothing to care for again. He may even return to the PDP.

The reason he is "doing so well" now is because of the potent threat ACN is posing. When the threat is gone its going to be a different ball game.

Ondo state cannot afford to be the odd one out in Yorubaland. We need to return to the mainstream ASAP for the sake of today, tomorrow and the future.

Come to think of it, he's being reconstructing/repairing the Owo-Ikare-Ajowa road now for almost 2 years.Maybe he wants to use its completion as a campaign promise for 2nd term.Thats too bad.


PS: I have nothing against the Igbos before some people will come and tear me up.They are just smart opportunists.

Seun, please where is the DISLIKE button !!!!.

so making nonsense on the internet. I dont think the ACN have done their home work. I dont believe in someone who trick me before. and i will now believe him again. I dont .




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ApQVtN6KU

sharrap! Are you denying the fact that a newly modernized market is being built or there is an ongoing expansion of the road linking to Olu Ikare's place via akumgba?

stop spewing sentiments over the internet, my dad told me that the last time they felt anything about governance was in the late 30's and I believe him, cos the primary school he went was last renovated in early seventies, not until mimiko came into power to give the hopeless hope.

Now, since it appears you are PDP apologist why can't you point to me one thing completed by the 8 wasted years of Olusegun Agagu . . . the floor is yours!

Heck! did you see me defending any political party or supporting a potential achiever? my political supports cut cross those that can help change the present situations. In imo state am with apga and rochas, akwa ibom I go with apkabio. . .delta am with great ogboru, since Oduaghan is an eyesore . . .Ofcourse I rooted for Adams in edo state.

Now, tell me who built the second primary school at Agbo Okela? you came to that town last three years and you are quick to jump the gun by writing rubbish? Did you care to ask how was the town condition in the last decade? Abeg shift jooor!

Sleekjd: @ Rhino, may God forgive ur lying ass. I live in Ikare and I tell you, this town is a glorified village. The road @ d Olukare's palace is a death trap. Countless ppl have died when brakes of heavy duty vehichles fail n crush ppl @ d market to death. Stop believing what you read in the papers.
The new market is built by the gov. Is laying waste becos market women have vowed not to go there cos the road is not accessible by foot talkless of vehicle. I have done countless reports on this n I know what am talking about.
The mega school has been under construction for years; n dia is no sign it will be completed anytime soo,
The road network in ikare to ugbe is something else... I could go on and on cos I ve bin living n working in this government forsaken area for 3years now.
Fine, development is going on in the state capital, but towns r not really feeling it. All projects in the Akoko area if any are moving @ snail pace.
Abeggi don't come here to spew what you don't know. N pls don't compare him to my Gov, Oshiobaba, whose developmental project r felt statewide.
I don't care who wins oo, but pls spreading false hood here.

MT: It will be so sad if Ondo people allow ACN to win all in the name of being integrated with the entire South West. ACN is all media hype!!. I am not a stakeholder in Ondo State as I am from Oyo State. We expected so much from ACN government here but so far it's a huge dissapointment.

They claim they provide 20,000 (O-yes)jobs, when in actual sense, the staffs are not being paid their paltry salaries. They are constructing fly-over at Mokola, when people in various places in Ibadan are being killed by flood due mainly to drainage problem, which they have failed to address so far. They are specialist in sending people on Jamboree Mission, the latest which happens to be the wife of the Legislators being sent to the UK in order to be able to assist their husbands in making Laws!!!. Oyo State is being run like a private organisation with no free hand being given to the commissioners to function. Everything is being run by the Governor and his wife.

ACN is just largely hyped in the media. Anybody is free to call me names, but I have just told you the gospel truth about happenings in Oyo state and you can come over to verify my claims. It's just so sad that we expected so much from ACN, after WE VOTED out the wasteful PDP in power but they deliver so so little.

If the people of Oyo State get half of what Mimiko has achieved in Ondo state, we will be more than satisfied.

Ondo people, shine your eyes o!!

Am from ondo state and can tell you there nothing to shine eyes for. Am not a Politician but I must say that Mimiko is worse than Agagu. Mind you, I hate Agagu with a passion. However, you need to know that mimiko is almost 4 years in office while Ajimobi, Amosun and Fayemi are barely a year old in office. Ondo is an Oil producing state and Chevron & co are operating there which attract more revenue than oyo, ogun & ekiti. Yet Mimiko is giving little compared to what he received and corner the rest side lining everyone that supported him in his trying moment. The chairman of his party, Olaiya Oni resigned saying he was treated with disdain. Many of his Aids have left him. Some of them was treated so badly that they want to contest against him.

Mimiko has pushed aside ondo contractors and he does all d contracts by himself through cronies. When local contractors can't get contract, money will be scarce in circulation and the people will be groaning. That's what's happening in ondo state.

Obviously, Mimiko has refused to remit the normal monthly allawi to Tinubu , just as Fashola use to do and so its time to boot him out and fix up another mugu.

Tinubu wants to rule the whole of Soth west. he wants Mimiko to share Ondo money with him if he wants his support. Allah kiyaye

atuboweke: Obviously, Mimiko has refused to remit the normal monthly allawi to Tinubu , just as Fashola use to do and so its time to boot him out and fix up another mugu.

I dare you say this in akure and see if you won't be lynched by mobs. I understand why you are bittered because mimiko came in power to nipped out PDP thieving drainage, hence benefactors like you will whine since the new order is favoring you.

why don't you point to us the so-called achievements by Agagu's administration or was ondo state not among the oil producing states then? I pity you.

vemmawealth:

Am from ondo state and can tell you there nothing to shine eyes for. Am not a Politician but I must say that Mimiko is worse than Agagu. Mind you, I hate Agagu with a passion. However, you need to know that mimiko is almost 4 years in office while Ajimobi, Amosun and Fayemi are barely a year old in office. Ondo is an Oil producing state and Chevron & co are operating there which attract more revenue than oyo, ogun & ekiti. Yet Mimiko is giving little compared to what he received and corner the rest side lining everyone that supported him in his trying moment. The chairman of his party, Olaiya Oni resigned saying he was treated with disdain. Many of his Aids have left him. Some of them was treated so badly that they want to contest against him.

Mimiko has pushed aside ondo contractors and he does all d contracts by himself through cronies. When local contractors can't get contract, money will be scarce in circulation and the people will be groaning. That's what's happening in ondo state.

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Any dispassionate follower of the trend in the ACN would be worried by the manner of emergence of their candidates which, though did not begin with Akeredolu, is nevertheless inexcusable. While die-hard ACN loyalists will try to justify this bizarre method of choosing candidates without the input of the generality of its membership in a supposedly democratic party, it does not and cannot make it right.
In spite of this however, Mimiko's own situation is not so much different. Can anyone recall any party primaries where Mimiko emerged both in 2007 and 2012? Does anyone know any other leader of the Labour Party apart from Mimiko and Dan Iwuanyanwu? Is this not a case of a single tree (Iroko) making a forest? Does anyone else have a say in the decision-making process of the Labour Party apart from Mimiko? On this matter, Mimiko, just like Tinubu, is another Emperor.
The biggest issue I have against Mimiko is however on the basis of his performance. I am of the view that this guy had so reduced the bar of governance in Ondo State and had brain-washed the people into celebrating embarassing and mediocre accomplishments. Imagine the Governor of a state celebrating projects like constructing roundabouts, car display market, water fountain (a single functional one in the entire state), motor parks, markets, culverts, all projects that a functional Local Government Council will confidently accomplish in a four year tenure. This is the governor of a state earning the fifth highest revenue from oil in the entire country. Compare that to Ajasin who during a four year tenure established about 4 major industries in the state as well as the state University (then Ondo State University, Ado-Ekiti). Compare Mimiko also to Olusegun Agagu who in a five year period opened up roads to the riverine parts of the state for the first time in modern times and constructed more roads than all the past governors of the state combined. Agagu also ensured the construction of thousands of classrooms spread across the entire state during his tenure. Now place that by Mimiko who abandoned classrooms and road projects that were almost completed by Agagu and was not able to complete any of the road projects he started after over 3 years - Oba Adesida Road, Akure dualisation and Akure Road, Ondo dualisation are some examples.

More examples of a regime with lack of focus are as follows:

Mega-schools: Mimiko embarked on the idea of Mega schools where he constructs a huge building from the scratch for primary school pupils in a semi-rural state like Ondo. He has about 4 or 5 of them in the entire state (can't remember the actual number now). Wouldn't it have made more sense to build additional classroom blocks in existing schools, or complete the almost-completed classroom buildings he inherited in order to make sure every neighbourhood has a functional school rather than a Mega school for 3 or 4 LGAs? Does it make sense to build a primary school where people will travel more than one hour twice daily, or improve existing neighbourhood schools five or ten minutes away?

Mother and Child Hospital: Why would an intelligent regime abandon its own General Hospitals and embark on another white elephant project called Mother and Child Hospital? Wouldn't it have made more sense to upgrade existing hospitals and therefore have more functional health delivery outlets in the immediate vicinity where people live rather than building a mega one in Akure? Imagine a woman in labour in Igbokoda needing to get to Akure, more than 2 hours away in order to get good care. The truth is that apart from the Mother and Child Hospital in Akure, no other state-owned public hospital in Ondo State has the capacity to manage serious cases affecting women and children. This is another white elephant project that also shows lack of deep thinking.

Kaadi Igbe Ayo: This is another white elephant idea where the Governor spends billions of naira asking residents of the state to register biometrically and no use has been found for this brain wave of his. Another huge amount of money down the drain.

Civic Centre: The Governor laid the foundation of a mega civic centre in Akure (I can't remember what he actually calls this, but it is like a mega auditorium). From the time of the initial announcement and contract award, nothing has been heard of the idea again.

Farm settlements: The governor promised to bring back the idea of farm settlements based on the vision of Awolowo, but he does not remember, much less act on that these days.

This is a governor that came in on popular goodwill, that promised rather stupidly on the day of his inauguration that no citizen of the state will go to bed hungry (talking before thinking), met 38 billion naira in the treasury, cornered local government allocations for the whole of his tenure having ensured that there was no LGA elections, yet delivering so little.

I am not one of those who will cite his previous position on second term as a reason to oppose his ambition. The constitution allows it and he has a right to change his mind. Most importantly, the people are the ones who will decide if they want him back or not. But I am firmly convinced that he does not have the intellectual capacity to embark on sustainable projects of most benefit to the generality of Ondo State people - you cannot place him side by side governors like Fashola or Donald Duke. He also does not parade a quality cabinet that will generate those good ideas for him - compare the quality and pedigree of his commissioners to those of Lagos or neighbouring Ekiti State.

However, I am not one of those who will under-rate Mimiko and he may actually win in October. He is a damn good politician, big spender and a master at playing to the gallery and preying on peoples' gullibilities. He also has excellent interpersonal relations skills and does not create needless enemies for himself. You only need to meet him to be enamoured by his accessibility and humility.

But if I were to make a choice, I will base it mainly on intellectual capacity and on that score, Akeredolu ranks much higher than Mimiko on ability to reason deeply and be creative, which is what a state like Ondo needs at this point to compete with other oil-producing states like Rivers, Akwa-Ibom and Edo, all making visible progress. If at the end of the day Mimiko wins, it will not be because he is a true performer. It will be because he knows very well how to play to the gallery and hoodwink the people into lowering their expectations of government and to be impressed with mediocrity. But for those who have the ability to look at what the state is capable of accomplishing given its resources, people who have had the opportunity of being in other climes and seeing what a focused government is capable of achieving, an objective assessment of the almost 4 years of Mimiko's rulership in Ondo State can only lead to an obvious conclusion - a regime long on promises and short on tangible accomplishments. To me, Mimiko is an absolute failure.

I am from Ondo State myself.

Rhino.5dm:
I dare you say this in akure and see if you won't be lynched by mobs. I understand why you are bittered because mimiko came in power to nipped out PDP thieving drainage, hence benefactors like you will whine since the new order is favoring you.

why don't you point to us the so-called achievements by Agagu's administration or was ondo state not among the oil producing states then? I pity you.

You are either blind, insipid or stupid. I said I hate Agagu with a passion. You must be foolish to conclude am a beneficiary of any government.

People are talking in Ondo State and its foolish + idiotic for u to think I can't speak my mind in Akure because of Mimiko. People are talking everyday.

Kabikala: Any dispassionate follower of the trend in the ACN would be worried by the manner of emergence of their candidates which, though did not begin with Akeredolu, is nevertheless inexcusable. While die-hard ACN loyalists will try to justify this bizarre method of choosing candidates without the input of the generality of its membership in a supposedly democratic party, it does not and cannot make it right.
In spite of this however, Mimiko's own situation is not so much different. Can anyone recall any party primaries where Mimiko emerged both in 2007 and 2012? Does anyone know any other leader of the Labour Party apart from Mimiko and Dan Iwuanyanwu? Is this not a case of a single tree (Iroko) making a forest? Does anyone else have a say in the decision-making process of the Labour Party apart from Mimiko? On this matter, Mimiko, just like Tinubu, is another Emperor.
The biggest issue I have against Mimiko is however on the basis of his performance. I am of the view that this guy had so reduced the bar of governance in Ondo State and had brain-washed the people into celebrating embarassing and mediocre accomplishments. Imagine the Governor of a state celebrating projects like constructing roundabouts, car display market, water fountain (a single functional one in the entire state), motor parks, markets, culverts, all projects that a functional Local Government Council will confidently accomplish in a four year tenure. This is the governor of a state earning the fifth highest revenue from oil in the entire country. Compare that to Ajasin who during a four year tenure established about 4 major industries in the state as well as the state University (then Ondo State University, Ado-Ekiti). Compare Mimiko also to Olusegun Agagu who in a five year period opened up roads to the riverine parts of the state for the first time in modern times and constructed more roads than all the past governors of the state combined. Agagu also ensured the construction of thousands of classrooms spread across the entire state during his tenure. Now place that by Mimiko who abandoned classrooms and road projects that were almost completed by Agagu and was not able to complete any of the road projects he started after over 3 years - Oba Adesida Road, Akure dualisation and Akure Road, Ondo dualisation are some examples.

More examples of a regime with lack of focus are as follows:

Mega-schools: Mimiko embarked on the idea of Mega schools where he constructs a huge building from the scratch for primary school pupils in a semi-rural state like Ondo. He has about 4 or 5 of them in the entire state (can't remember the actual number now). Wouldn't it have made more sense to build additional classroom blocks in existing schools, or complete the almost-completed classroom buildings he inherited in order to make sure every neighbourhood has a functional school rather than a Mega school for 3 or 4 LGAs? Does it make sense to build a primary school where people will travel more than one hour twice daily, or improve existing neighbourhood schools five or ten minutes away?

Mother and Child Hospital: Why would an intelligent regime abandon its own General Hospitals and embark on another white elephant project called Mother and Child Hospital? Wouldn't it have made more sense to upgrade existing hospitals and therefore have more functional health delivery outlets in the immediate vicinity where people live rather than building a mega one in Akure? Imagine a woman in labour in Igbokoda needing to get to Akure, more than 2 hours away in order to get good care. The truth is that apart from the Mother and Child Hospital in Akure, no other state-owned public hospital in Ondo State has the capacity to manage serious cases affecting women and children. This is another white elephant project that also shows lack of deep thinking.

Kaadi Igbe Ayo: This is another white elephant idea where the Governor spends billions of naira asking residents of the state to regsiter biometrically and no use has been found for this brain wave of his. Another huge amount of money down the drain.

Civic Centre: The Governor laid the foundation of a mega civic centre in Akure (I can't remember what he actually calls this, but it is like a mega auditorium). From the time of the initial announcement and contract award, nothing has been heard of the idea again.

Farm settlements: The governor promised to bring back the idea of farm settlements based on the vision of Awolowo, but he does not remember, much less act on that these days.

This is a governor that came in on popular goodwill, that promised rather stupidly on the day of his inauguration that no citizen of the state will go to bed hungry (talking before thinking), met 38 billion naira in the treasury, cornered local government allocations for the whole of his tenure having ensured that there was no LGA elections,yet delivering so little.

I am not one of those who will cite his previous position on second term as a reason to oppose his ambition. The constitution allows it and he has a right to change his mind. Most importantly, the people are the ones who will decide if they want him back or not. But I am firmly convinced that he does not have the intellectual capacity to embark on sustainable projects of most benefit to the generality of Ondo State people - you cannot place him side by side governors like Fashola or Donald Duke. He also does not parade a quality cabinet that will generate those good ideas for him - compare the quality and pedigree of his commissioners to those of Lagos or neighbouring Ekiti State.

However, I am not one of those who will under-rate Mimiko and he may actually win in October. He is a damn good politician, big spender and a master at playing to the gallery and preying on peoples' gullibilities. He also has excellent interpersonal relations skills and does not create needless enemies for himself. You only need to meet him to be enamoured by his accessibility and humility.

But if I were to make a choice, I will base it mainly on intellectual capacity and on that score, Akeredolu ranks much higher than Mimiko on ability to reason deeply and be creative, which is what a state like Ondo needs at this point to compete with other oil-producing states like Rivers, Akwa-Ibom and Edo, all making visible progress. If at the end of the day Mimiko wins, it will not be because he is a true performer. It will be because he knows very well how to play to the gallery and hoodwink the people into lowering their expectations of government and to be impressed with mediocrity. But for those who have the ability to look at what the state is capable of accomplishing given its resources, people who have had the opportunity of being in other climes and seeing what a focused government is capable of achieving, an objective assessment of the almost 4 years of Mimiko's rulership in Ondo State can only lead to an obvious conclusion - a regime long on promises and short on tangible accomplishments. To me, Mimiko is an absolute failure.

I am from Ondo State myself.

This is a very balanced picture of d ondo scenario

Are you mad because you have been found out to be a PDP apologist?

I normally laugh very hard when paid agents start their post with. . ."I hate this and that, but blab blah . . .."

Dude, no one is buying into your petty taraddidles and all that. As you rightly mention in your post that people talk,I agree that paid agents like you talk, since their source of meal is being threatening with new ways of doing things. concentrate on your money making website and free yourself from collecting awof. Go go go . . . I know you can do it.

vemmawealth:

You are either blind, insipid or stupid. I said I hate Agagu with a passion. You must be foolish to conclude am a beneficiary of any government.

People are talking in Ondo State and its foolish + idiotic for u to think I can't speak my mind in Akure because of Mimiko. People are talking everyday.