₦airaland Forum

Your humble idea will surely make you triumph above your mate.try to invest in food stuff specialise in garri,Elubo and wheat be serious you will make it,if possible relate with mile12 market

I want to sell my Nigeria used Toyota Camry 1998 model in a good condition @600k first come first serve my number 08053525857 name gbemi

Before anybody make any negative comments pls read the story of Baba Rolling Dollar who lost all his children and wife as result of an accident sometimes ago before given birth to these children he was desireous of a family when he released an album "Won kere si number wa'that brought him back to life.he was homeless before Asiwaju Tinubu gave him a house at Oko Oba Abule Egba.it is not the fault of the women

Good talk my brother even in my village @Akoko in Ondo State average muslim eat Dog meat.
confirm naa d best meat

Must especially police at Ketu needs to be cautioned as i and my uncle prevented possible crisis on tuesday 6th nov,2012 at the same place ketu when police arrested our younger brother with newly imported power bike after given them, evidence in the bill of laden.we resisted them and the support of passer by was encouraging and i told them right their that this is abused of power until i called ACP for intervention,they still refuse to talk to their superior but only interested in money to collect.i forsee revolution as Nigerians are ready to confront police authority.

Don't b surprise must of the candidate choose to speak yoruba as demanded by the electrorate.The state as the highest number of learned. in fact,FIRST black VC in illinous University is from Ondo state by which is becoming diffult for some indegene to speak yoruba fluently

By S.A. Aniyi
The time honoured aphorism that: ‘health is wealth’ can hardly ware out of relevance as long as human beings continue to exist. This is as a result of the centrality of health in the organogram of human needs, which is a pointer to the fact it is only a healthy body that can aspire to the promise of human possibility. Without a sound health, every aspiration will only thaw into a liquid of a vast mirage. In fact, the ‘Caring HEART’ sloganeering, which should be the acronym for the sector by sector focus of the government rightly placed ‘H’ which stands for Health in the first position.
It is therefore a thing of great concern to any perceptible resident of Ondo state that such a critical department of government could be criminally neglected and wickedly left to bleed to death. No hyperbole intended! Whereas, most distant observers of the happenings in Ondo state could have been fed with the toxic of unending media theatrics, the reality of the state of the health services in the state is one that brutally contradicts the euphonious rhapsody of an Eldorado which the government of the Dr Olusegun Mimiko has been serving the hapless media consumers with, through devious media manipulations. Like everything else, the government in the state has elevated lurid deceit to the state of government policy.
At the inception of the administration, the government said it was going to focus on the enhancement of primary health care with special interest on maternal and child care services. The governmental policy could hardly be faulted with the unenviable record of the state as one of the most notorious in maternal and infant mortality, with statistics that bested the widely alarming national average limit. It was indeed a great relief that a supposed medical doctor being the head of government and with previous experience as two term commissioner of health in the state, would be in a better position to do the right thing. Unfortunately however, the Labour Party (LP) administration has replaced ‘eye projects’ with high service performance. Almost four years later, the ugly reality in the state hospitals at all levels, is that of descript and comprehensive decadence.
Many would find it hard to reconcile this revelation with the products of propaganda tonnage being churned out daily by the well fortified lie factory of the government. What is being shown is a ‘beautiful showroom’ created to give the impression of an unusual development. The truth about health matter in Ondo state is that, this government decided to clinically kill the existing health facilities across board in order to justify the humongous, but hardly sensible creation of centralized maternity hospital. A project which many concerned patriots have dubbed a conduit pipe used to siphon the tilt of the state. For instance, the two MHCs in Akure and Ondo have gulped close to a billion naira so far, to erect.
The argument of many observers is that, there existed and still extant in the state, four State Specialist Hospitals in Akure, Ondo, Ikare-Akoko and Okitipupa. These hospitals were established by the late Oloye Adebayo Adefarati when Dr Rahman Mimiko was in charge as commissioner of health. The specialist hospitals were designed to provide tertiary health services; with all major departments of human health present; including the Gynaecology Department (which houses the Obstetrics and Paediatrics Units, and) which provides same functions that the so called Mother and Child Hospital in Akure provides. Besides, the state has what is called five ‘tier B’ and 10 ‘tier C’ general hospitals, while there are 18 Comprehensive Health Centers, enhanced with Basic Health Centers across the villages. Building of physical infrastructure has never been a major problem, especially in the urban area, if ever existed; it would be in the often neglected, hinterlands. The problems had been and still remain: poor and outdated facilities, poorly trained personnel, lack of essential drugs, traditional beliefs and shortage of medical personnel.
These obvious challenges were left unattended to, while building of new huge Obstetrics Hospitals was considered more expedient. No doubt any uncritical stranger in Ondo state would be mesmerized by the sprawling edifice called Mother & Child Hospital (MHC), but beneath, is a cancerous rot and an exemplary case of resource mismanagement. Worse still, even though about 80% of the state’s capital votes on health are expended on the MHC buildings; the state has only delivered one that is located in Akure. The second one in Ondo town has not been completed three years later. Similarly, the Abiye Safe Motherhood programme lunched with fanfare in Igbara-Oke three years ago has remained product of elusive sophistry. In theory, the public is made to believe that the state has attached each pregnant woman with a doctor, given a preloaded mobile phone and can call for ambulance services at any time of the day, free of charge. It is nothing but an oversize whopper; people know this is one of the hallmarks of the chicanery which has patently defined this government. It is a mere fanciful phantom idea, projected in power- point presentation to hypnotize the easily impressed Western donor houses. Apart from the publicity intended and showy demonstration centre in Igbara-Oke, the Abiye fantasy has virtually become an idea in the grave yard.
It must be added that one of the promises of this administration is the provision of free health services. Any semblance of this only exists partially in the MHC and Igbara-Oke showrooms. Patients pay for everything but consultancy services in the other health facilities across the state. For instance, drugs are permanently out of stock in the State Specialist Hospital, Akure which ordinarily should be the most fortified, being the biggest and foremost medical institution of the state. If gold can rust, what is the hope for the iron! Unlike what is obtainable in other neighboring states which have free health coverage for age 0-12 and for the elderly from age 65-above, the free health provided in the MHC only covers age 0-5. Which means the service only takes care of obstetric services. This service does not also cover post natal services for the mother. Already, the MHC Akure has been overstretched and always overcrowded as people scramble to benefit from the partial free health provided in the hospital which is denied the other existing health facilities. Pregnant women have to keep vigil so as to wake as early as 4am to board motorcycle to MHC so as to get tally for antenatal booking as the registration only takes place once a week and closes 10am. The hospital has become a huge corruption racketeering center where people have to tip the staff of the hospital to get a tally. Many fail to get booked, end up frustrated and are forced to opt for traditional birth attendants, because of the lack of money, in spite of the known risk attached. With all the hypes about this hospital, it is shocking and inconceivable that it cannot handle not-too-serious medical cases such as post-partum hemorrhage, which is often referred to the senselessly abandoned State Specialist Hospital, Akure.
Many have equally asked the question as to why MCH is not under the control of the Ondo State Hospital Management Board which is statutorily empowered to superintend on the state owned health institutions. The MCH is directly in the Governor’s office and is being managed by a governor’s nephew who is the Chief Medical Director. He gives no stewardship to anyone and award of contracts are never discussed with any known management committee. Even though the bulk of the personnel are employees of the Hospital Management Board, the board is an onlooker in matters of emoluments, discipline, promotion and redeployment. To borrow the PDP’s mantra, ‘it is a family affairs’!
Whereas the MHC might not be entirely useless especially in Akure, and can even be seen as an extension of the State Hospital, what is disheartening is the deliberate policy of its systematic castration through willful abandonment. This seems to be consistent with the idiosyncrasy of this government which tends to project itself as the only government that has ever done something great in the state. Thus, existing legacies are left to decay while money is spent to reproduce the same value through fanciful nomenclature and colour coating. Let us x-ray the litany of challenges facing the once enviable State Specialist Hospital, Akure which remains the highest medical institution in the state.
Most of the buildings in the hospital are dilapidated and need total overhaul, expansion and refurbishing. Cases of leaking roofs, including consulting rooms; broken beds, and stinking lavatories as a result of inadequate water supply persist unattended to. It would be recalled that this government sunk six boreholes for which it receives tons of appreciation, but it is regrettable that the boreholes did not see another six months when they broke down irretrievably. Since then, the hospital has been made to depend on the old borehole and periodic water supply from other sources. The hospital’s children ward remained abandoned since 2008. The ward was blown off by the wind and almost collapsed then, which prompted the last administration to award the contract for renovation. It is shameful that this government has abandoned the project. The hospital conference hall is now converted to children ward. This has resulted in situations where children with cases that demand isolation treatment are being lumped together in a crowded ward which has led to high child mortality incidents in the hospital. The state hospital doesn’t have a morgue, it rather uses embalming room where corpses are embalmed and then left on the floor. An unflattering incident occurred recently when the remains of a man deposited with the mortuary had his feet mutilated and lacerated. The family of the deceased swooped on a hapless mortuary attendant who was promptly accused of mutilating a part of the deceased for diabolical purposes, the man was rough handled; it took the intervention of the hospital authorities for the man to be left off the accusation. Investigation later showed that rats often saunter into the embalming room regularly to dine on human fresh. The sad part of it is that, we have it on good authority that the Oloye Adefarati government procured one morgue which never lasted a year. The morgue was alleged to have been supplied by a proxy company of the then commissioner of health Dr Rahman Mimiko, who instead of supplying a new morgue, was alleged to have supplied a refurbished one. Now that he is the state’s chief executive officer, a provision of another one, even at the expense of the state would have been a pardonable atonement.
Free health is a mirage in the hospital as patients buy every bit of the drug themselves: from tissue papers, hand gloves, syringes and many other minor consumables, you pay through your nose. They are never provided. In fact, to have a caesarian delivery in the hospital, the patient will have to cough out between N30, 0000-N50, 000. What is called the theater room is a dignified slaughter’s slab, nothing modern, nothing inspiring! The outpatient department is the worst hit, as there is no waiting room; patients clubbed around in sun and rain and hardly get desired attention, as many returned home worsted. The hospital doesn’t have a radiologist; a contract radiologist only visits from Federal Medical Center, Owo once in a week. Even doctors in the hospital do not trust ultra sound scan done in the laboratory because of the antiquated machine still being used. The x-ray machine is outdated while the modern Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) cannot be procured by a government that spending so much on endorsement freebies. In fact the general hospital Iwaro Oka -Akoko does not have a functional x-ray machin., You find cases of broken ceilings, craters on the hospital interlink road and many other evidence of lip service to public health.
It is a shameful thing that Ondo state is the only state that doesn’t have teaching hospital in the south west. What this will mean in the long run is that the opportunity for promising Ondo state indigenes to get admission to study medicine is slim. The services of specialist consultant on critical medical services cannot also be received here, while residency experience cannot be obtained in the state’s hospitals. There is no hospital that can attend to serious orthopedic care in the state, this is a reason why Ondo state has the highest density of trado-orthopedic homes (Arogun) in the south west. The import of this is that Ondo state which should lead in the parade of large number of medical professionals as she used to, will now trail her sister states in critical specialized medical professionalism. These are some of the critical issues which this administration has irresponsibly avoided while concentrating on marginally valuable architecture wannabe.
The story of the health sector in Ondo since the beginning of this administration is a sad prologue ending in a tragic epilogue. It is a shambolic affair; a monumental neglect too wicked to be real. It is a product of poorly conceived and digested health policy that is healing the symptoms while hiding the sickness.

The governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Barrister Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) at the weekend promised not to increase the tuition fees of the Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba and Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo if elected in the October 20 governorship polls in the State.
Besides, he assured the Staff of both institutions and all the teachers in the State that their allowances, which have not been paid by Governor Olusegun Mimiko will be fully paid by his administration.
Akeredolu in a statement by his Director of Media, Publicity and Strategy, Idowu Ajanaku stated this at Ayegunle Akoko where he was hosted by thousands members of the Omoluabi Forum. This is his response to a question by one of the Student leaders at the event.
The ACN touch bearer said “I know the importance of education. Although some States increased fees because they have no money but for us in Ondo State, God has blessed us with oil riches. Therefore I say today that my government will not increase tuition fees in the State. That is final. You can quote me on that”.
Besides, all the allowances of Staff in Adekunle Ajasin University that has not been paid in the last 32 months and that of the teachers will be paid in full. Also, the bursary of Ondo State Students in the higher institutions will be paid, just as ACN government will pay special attention to the less privilege students, so that they can be educated.
For Akeredolu, his administration will not expend money on Mega schools but will focus on massive renovation of all existing schools in the state. His administration will prioritize new school structures in the rural areas across the State and reorient teachers to help them better deliver on educating the gifted students in Ondo State.
The legal luminary also promised to focus attention of health, job creation with his promised 30,000 jobs in 100 days in office, infrastructural development among others.
Earlier the coordinator Omoluabi Forum Chief Gabriel Tolu Obaleye said they decided to support Akeredolu because of his vision for the State.
According to him, the people of Ondo State are tired of the government of Olusegun Mimiko who has been building cosmetic project like town halls, boreholes, markets and fountain where there is no portable waters in the State to drink, no roads, as the government has not commissioned a single road in the last three and half years. But we believe that with what has been happening in Lagos, Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Edo among others, Ondo State will witness a massive development.
The Independent Campaign Group of the Forum was later inaugurated by Akeredolu with a donation of N1 million.
By S.A. Aniyi
The time honoured aphorism that: ‘health is wealth’ can hardly ware out of relevance as long as human beings continue to exist. This is as a result of the centrality of health in the organogram of human needs, which is a pointer to the fact it is only a healthy body that can aspire to the promise of human possibility. Without a sound health, every aspiration will only thaw into a liquid of a vast mirage. In fact, the ‘Caring HEART’ sloganeering, which should be the acronym for the sector by sector focus of the government rightly placed ‘H’ which stands for Health in the first position.
It is therefore a thing of great concern to any perceptible resident of Ondo state that such a critical department of government could be criminally neglected and wickedly left to bleed to death. No hyperbole intended! Whereas, most distant observers of the happenings in Ondo state could have been fed with the toxic of unending media theatrics, the reality of the state of the health services in the state is one that brutally contradicts the euphonious rhapsody of an Eldorado which the government of the Dr Olusegun Mimiko has been serving the hapless media consumers with, through devious media manipulations. Like everything else, the government in the state has elevated lurid deceit to the state of government policy.
At the inception of the administration, the government said it was going to focus on the enhancement of primary health care with special interest on maternal and child care services. The governmental policy could hardly be faulted with the unenviable record of the state as one of the most notorious in maternal and infant mortality, with statistics that bested the widely alarming national average limit. It was indeed a great relief that a supposed medical doctor being the head of government and with previous experience as two term commissioner of health in the state, would be in a better position to do the right thing. Unfortunately however, the Labour Party (LP) administration has replaced ‘eye projects’ with high service performance. Almost four years later, the ugly reality in the state hospitals at all levels, is that of descript and comprehensive decadence.
Many would find it hard to reconcile this revelation with the products of propaganda tonnage being churned out daily by the well fortified lie factory of the government. What is being shown is a ‘beautiful showroom’ created to give the impression of an unusual development. The truth about health matter in Ondo state is that, this government decided to clinically kill the existing health facilities across board in order to justify the humongous, but hardly sensible creation of centralized maternity hospital. A project which many concerned patriots have dubbed a conduit pipe used to siphon the tilt of the state. For instance, the two MHCs in Akure and Ondo have gulped close to a billion naira so far, to erect.
The argument of many observers is that, there existed and still extant in the state, four State Specialist Hospitals in Akure, Ondo, Ikare-Akoko and Okitipupa. These hospitals were established by the late Oloye Adebayo Adefarati when Dr Rahman Mimiko was in charge as commissioner of health. The specialist hospitals were designed to provide tertiary health services; with all major departments of human health present; including the Gynaecology Department (which houses the Obstetrics and Paediatrics Units, and) which provides same functions that the so called Mother and Child Hospital in Akure provides. Besides, the state has what is called five ‘tier B’ and 10 ‘tier C’ general hospitals, while there are 18 Comprehensive Health Centers, enhanced with Basic Health Centers across the villages. Building of physical infrastructure has never been a major problem, especially in the urban area, if ever existed; it would be in the often neglected, hinterlands. The problems had been and still remain: poor and outdated facilities, poorly trained personnel, lack of essential drugs, traditional beliefs and shortage of medical personnel.
These obvious challenges were left unattended to, while building of new huge Obstetrics Hospitals was considered more expedient. No doubt any uncritical stranger in Ondo state would be mesmerized by the sprawling edifice called Mother & Child Hospital (MHC), but beneath, is a cancerous rot and an exemplary case of resource mismanagement. Worse still, even though about 80% of the state’s capital votes on health are expended on the MHC buildings; the state has only delivered one that is located in Akure. The second one in Ondo town has not been completed three years later. Similarly, the Abiye Safe Motherhood programme lunched with fanfare in Igbara-Oke three years ago has remained product of elusive sophistry. In theory, the public is made to believe that the state has attached each pregnant woman with a doctor, given a preloaded mobile phone and can call for ambulance services at any time of the day, free of charge. It is nothing but an oversize whopper; people know this is one of the hallmarks of the chicanery which has patently defined this government. It is a mere fanciful phantom idea, projected in power- point presentation to hypnotize the easily impressed Western donor houses. Apart from the publicity intended and showy demonstration centre in Igbara-Oke, the Abiye fantasy has virtually become an idea in the grave yard.
It must be added that one of the promises of this administration is the provision of free health services. Any semblance of this only exists partially in the MHC and Igbara-Oke showrooms. Patients pay for everything but consultancy services in the other health facilities across the state. For instance, drugs are permanently out of stock in the State Specialist Hospital, Akure which ordinarily should be the most fortified, being the biggest and foremost medical institution of the state. If gold can rust, what is the hope for the iron! Unlike what is obtainable in other neighboring states which have free health coverage for age 0-12 and for the elderly from age 65-above, the free health provided in the MHC only covers age 0-5. Which means the service only takes care of obstetric services. This service does not also cover post natal services for the mother. Already, the MHC Akure has been overstretched and always overcrowded as people scramble to benefit from the partial free health provided in the hospital which is denied the other existing health facilities. Pregnant women have to keep vigil so as to wake as early as 4am to board motorcycle to MHC so as to get tally for antenatal booking as the registration only takes place once a week and closes 10am. The hospital has become a huge corruption racketeering center where people have to tip the staff of the hospital to get a tally. Many fail to get booked, end up frustrated and are forced to opt for traditional birth attendants, because of the lack of money, in spite of the known risk attached. With all the hypes about this hospital, it is shocking and inconceivable that it cannot handle not-too-serious medical cases such as post-partum hemorrhage, which is often referred to the senselessly abandoned State Specialist Hospital, Akure.
Many have equally asked the question as to why MCH is not under the control of the Ondo State Hospital Management Board which is statutorily empowered to superintend on the state owned health institutions. The MCH is directly in the Governor’s office and is being managed by a governor’s nephew who is the Chief Medical Director. He gives no stewardship to anyone and award of contracts are never discussed with any known management committee. Even though the bulk of the personnel are employees of the Hospital Management Board, the board is an onlooker in matters of emoluments, discipline, promotion and redeployment. To borrow the PDP’s mantra, ‘it is a family affairs’!
Whereas the MHC might not be entirely useless especially in Akure, and can even be seen as an extension of the State Hospital, what is disheartening is the deliberate policy of its systematic castration through willful abandonment. This seems to be consistent with the idiosyncrasy of this government which tends to project itself as the only government that has ever done something great in the state. Thus, existing legacies are left to decay while money is spent to reproduce the same value through fanciful nomenclature and colour coating. Let us x-ray the litany of challenges facing the once enviable State Specialist Hospital, Akure which remains the highest medical institution in the state.
Most of the buildings in the hospital are dilapidated and need total overhaul, expansion and refurbishing. Cases of leaking roofs, including consulting rooms; broken beds, and stinking lavatories as a result of inadequate water supply persist unattended to. It would be recalled that this government sunk six boreholes for which it receives tons of appreciation, but it is regrettable that the boreholes did not see another six months when they broke down irretrievably. Since then, the hospital has been made to depend on the old borehole and periodic water supply from other sources. The hospital’s children ward remained abandoned since 2008. The ward was blown off by the wind and almost collapsed then, which prompted the last administration to award the contract for renovation. It is shameful that this government has abandoned the project. The hospital conference hall is now converted to children ward. This has resulted in situations where children with cases that demand isolation treatment are being lumped together in a crowded ward which has led to high child mortality incidents in the hospital. The state hospital doesn’t have a morgue, it rather uses embalming room where corpses are embalmed and then left on the floor. An unflattering incident occurred recently when the remains of a man deposited with the mortuary had his feet mutilated and lacerated. The family of the deceased swooped on a hapless mortuary attendant who was promptly accused of mutilating a part of the deceased for diabolical purposes, the man was rough handled; it took the intervention of the hospital authorities for the man to be left off the accusation. Investigation later showed that rats often saunter into the embalming room regularly to dine on human fresh. The sad part of it is that, we have it on good authority that the Oloye Adefarati government procured one morgue which never lasted a year. The morgue was alleged to have been supplied by a proxy company of the then commissioner of health Dr Rahman Mimiko, who instead of supplying a new morgue, was alleged to have supplied a refurbished one. Now that he is the state’s chief executive officer, a provision of another one, even at the expense of the state would have been a pardonable atonement.
Free health is a mirage in the hospital as patients buy every bit of the drug themselves: from tissue papers, hand gloves, syringes and many other minor consumables, you pay through your nose. They are never provided. In fact, to have a caesarian delivery in the hospital, the patient will have to cough out between N30, 0000-N50, 000. What is called the theater room is a dignified slaughter’s slab, nothing modern, nothing inspiring! The outpatient department is the worst hit, as there is no waiting room; patients clubbed around in sun and rain and hardly get desired attention, as many returned home worsted. The hospital doesn’t have a radiologist; a contract radiologist only visits from Federal Medical Center, Owo once in a week. Even doctors in the hospital do not trust ultra sound scan done in the laboratory because of the antiquated machine still being used. The x-ray machine is outdated while the modern Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) cannot be procured by a government that spending so much on endorsement freebies. In fact the general hospital Iwaro Oka -Akoko does not have a functional x-ray machin., You find cases of broken ceilings, craters on the hospital interlink road and many other evidence of lip service to public health.
It is a shameful thing that Ondo state is the only state that doesn’t have teaching hospital in the south west. What this will mean in the long run is that the opportunity for promising Ondo state indigenes to get admission to study medicine is slim. The services of specialist consultant on critical medical services cannot also be received here, while residency experience cannot be obtained in the state’s hospitals. There is no hospital that can attend to serious orthopedic care in the state, this is a reason why Ondo state has the highest density of trado-orthopedic homes (Arogun) in the south west. The import of this is that Ondo state which should lead in the parade of large number of medical professionals as she used to, will now trail her sister states in critical specialized medical professionalism. These are some of the critical issues which this administration has irresponsibly avoided while concentrating on marginally valuable architecture wannabe.
The story of the health sector in Ondo since the beginning of this administration is a sad prologue ending in a tragic epilogue. It is a shambolic affair; a monumental neglect too wicked to be real. It is a product of poorly conceived and digested health policy that is healing the symptoms while hiding the sickness.

The governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Barrister Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) at the weekend promised not to increase the tuition fees of the Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba and Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo if elected in the October 20 governorship polls in the State.
Besides, he assured the Staff of both institutions and all the teachers in the State that their allowances, which have not been paid by Governor Olusegun Mimiko will be fully paid by his administration.
Akeredolu in a statement by his Director of Media, Publicity and Strategy, Idowu Ajanaku stated this at Ayegunle Akoko where he was hosted by thousands members of the Omoluabi Forum. This is his response to a question by one of the Student leaders at the event.
The ACN touch bearer said “I know the importance of education. Although some States increased fees because they have no money but for us in Ondo State, God has blessed us with oil riches. Therefore I say today that my government will not increase tuition fees in the State. That is final. You can quote me on that”.
Besides, all the allowances of Staff in Adekunle Ajasin University that has not been paid in the last 32 months and that of the teachers will be paid in full. Also, the bursary of Ondo State Students in the higher institutions will be paid, just as ACN government will pay special attention to the less privilege students, so that they can be educated.
For Akeredolu, his administration will not expend money on Mega schools but will focus on massive renovation of all existing schools in the state. His administration will prioritize new school structures in the rural areas across the State and reorient teachers to help them better deliver on educating the gifted students in Ondo State.
The legal luminary also promised to focus attention of health, job creation with his promised 30,000 jobs in 100 days in office, infrastructural development among others.
Earlier the coordinator Omoluabi Forum Chief Gabriel Tolu Obaleye said they decided to support Akeredolu because of his vision for the State.
According to him, the people of Ondo State are tired of the government of Olusegun Mimiko who has been building cosmetic project like town halls, boreholes, markets and fountain where there is no portable waters in the State to drink, no roads, as the government has not commissioned a single road in the last three and half years. But we believe that with what has been happening in Lagos, Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Edo among others, Ondo State will witness a massive development.
The Independent Campaign Group of the Forum was later inaugurated by Akeredolu with a donation of N1 million.
By S.A. Aniyi
The time honoured aphorism that: ‘health is wealth’ can hardly ware out of relevance as long as human beings continue to exist. This is as a result of the centrality of health in the organogram of human needs, which is a pointer to the fact it is only a healthy body that can aspire to the promise of human possibility. Without a sound health, every aspiration will only thaw into a liquid of a vast mirage. In fact, the ‘Caring HEART’ sloganeering, which should be the acronym for the sector by sector focus of the government rightly placed ‘H’ which stands for Health in the first position.
It is therefore a thing of great concern to any perceptible resident of Ondo state that such a critical department of government could be criminally neglected and wickedly left to bleed to death. No hyperbole intended! Whereas, most distant observers of the happenings in Ondo state could have been fed with the toxic of unending media theatrics, the reality of the state of the health services in the state is one that brutally contradicts the euphonious rhapsody of an Eldorado which the government of the Dr Olusegun Mimiko has been serving the hapless media consumers with, through devious media manipulations. Like everything else, the government in the state has elevated lurid deceit to the state of government policy.
At the inception of the administration, the government said it was going to focus on the enhancement of primary health care with special interest on maternal and child care services. The governmental policy could hardly be faulted with the unenviable record of the state as one of the most notorious in maternal and infant mortality, with statistics that bested the widely alarming national average limit. It was indeed a great relief that a supposed medical doctor being the head of government and with previous experience as two term commissioner of health in the state, would be in a better position to do the right thing. Unfortunately however, the Labour Party (LP) administration has replaced ‘eye projects’ with high service performance. Almost four years later, the ugly reality in the state hospitals at all levels, is that of descript and comprehensive decadence.
Many would find it hard to reconcile this revelation with the products of propaganda tonnage being churned out daily by the well fortified lie factory of the government. What is being shown is a ‘beautiful showroom’ created to give the impression of an unusual development. The truth about health matter in Ondo state is that, this government decided to clinically kill the existing health facilities across board in order to justify the humongous, but hardly sensible creation of centralized maternity hospital. A project which many concerned patriots have dubbed a conduit pipe used to siphon the tilt of the state. For instance, the two MHCs in Akure and Ondo have gulped close to a billion naira so far, to erect.
The argument of many observers is that, there existed and still extant in the state, four State Specialist Hospitals in Akure, Ondo, Ikare-Akoko and Okitipupa. These hospitals were established by the late Oloye Adebayo Adefarati when Dr Rahman Mimiko was in charge as commissioner of health. The specialist hospitals were designed to provide tertiary health services; with all major departments of human health present; including the Gynaecology Department (which houses the Obstetrics and Paediatrics Units, and) which provides same functions that the so called Mother and Child Hospital in Akure provides. Besides, the state has what is called five ‘tier B’ and 10 ‘tier C’ general hospitals, while there are 18 Comprehensive Health Centers, enhanced with Basic Health Centers across the villages. Building of physical infrastructure has never been a major problem, especially in the urban area, if ever existed; it would be in the often neglected, hinterlands. The problems had been and still remain: poor and outdated facilities, poorly trained personnel, lack of essential drugs, traditional beliefs and shortage of medical personnel.
These obvious challenges were left unattended to, while building of new huge Obstetrics Hospitals was considered more expedient. No doubt any uncritical stranger in Ondo state would be mesmerized by the sprawling edifice called Mother & Child Hospital (MHC), but beneath, is a cancerous rot and an exemplary case of resource mismanagement. Worse still, even though about 80% of the state’s capital votes on health are expended on the MHC buildings; the state has only delivered one that is located in Akure. The second one in Ondo town has not been completed three years later. Similarly, the Abiye Safe Motherhood programme lunched with fanfare in Igbara-Oke three years ago has remained product of elusive sophistry. In theory, the public is made to believe that the state has attached each pregnant woman with a doctor, given a preloaded mobile phone and can call for ambulance services at any time of the day, free of charge. It is nothing but an oversize whopper; people know this is one of the hallmarks of the chicanery which has patently defined this government. It is a mere fanciful phantom idea, projected in power- point presentation to hypnotize the easily impressed Western donor houses. Apart from the publicity intended and showy demonstration centre in Igbara-Oke, the Abiye fantasy has virtually become an idea in the grave yard.
It must be added that one of the promises of this administration is the provision of free health services. Any semblance of this only exists partially in the MHC and Igbara-Oke showrooms. Patients pay for everything but consultancy services in the other health facilities across the state. For instance, drugs are permanently out of stock in the State Specialist Hospital, Akure which ordinarily should be the most fortified, being the biggest and foremost medical institution of the state. If gold can rust, what is the hope for the iron! Unlike what is obtainable in other neighboring states which have free health coverage for age 0-12 and for the elderly from age 65-above, the free health provided in the MHC only covers age 0-5. Which means the service only takes care of obstetric services. This service does not also cover post natal services for the mother. Already, the MHC Akure has been overstretched and always overcrowded as people scramble to benefit from the partial free health provided in the hospital which is denied the other existing health facilities. Pregnant women have to keep vigil so as to wake as early as 4am to board motorcycle to MHC so as to get tally for antenatal booking as the registration only takes place once a week and closes 10am. The hospital has become a huge corruption racketeering center where people have to tip the staff of the hospital to get a tally. Many fail to get booked, end up frustrated and are forced to opt for traditional birth attendants, because of the lack of money, in spite of the known risk attached. With all the hypes about this hospital, it is shocking and inconceivable that it cannot handle not-too-serious medical cases such as post-partum hemorrhage, which is often referred to the senselessly abandoned State Specialist Hospital, Akure.
Many have equally asked the question as to why MCH is not under the control of the Ondo State Hospital Management Board which is statutorily empowered to superintend on the state owned health institutions. The MCH is directly in the Governor’s office and is being managed by a governor’s nephew who is the Chief Medical Director. He gives no stewardship to anyone and award of contracts are never discussed with any known management committee. Even though the bulk of the personnel are employees of the Hospital Management Board, the board is an onlooker in matters of emoluments, discipline, promotion and redeployment. To borrow the PDP’s mantra, ‘it is a family affairs’!
Whereas the MHC might not be entirely useless especially in Akure, and can even be seen as an extension of the State Hospital, what is disheartening is the deliberate policy of its systematic castration through willful abandonment. This seems to be consistent with the idiosyncrasy of this government which tends to project itself as the only government that has ever done something great in the state. Thus, existing legacies are left to decay while money is spent to reproduce the same value through fanciful nomenclature and colour coating. Let us x-ray the litany of challenges facing the once enviable State Specialist Hospital, Akure which remains the highest medical institution in the state.
Most of the buildings in the hospital are dilapidated and need total overhaul, expansion and refurbishing. Cases of leaking roofs, including consulting rooms; broken beds, and stinking lavatories as a result of inadequate water supply persist unattended to. It would be recalled that this government sunk six boreholes for which it receives tons of appreciation, but it is regrettable that the boreholes did not see another six months when they broke down irretrievably. Since then, the hospital has been made to depend on the old borehole and periodic water supply from other sources. The hospital’s children ward remained abandoned since 2008. The ward was blown off by the wind and almost collapsed then, which prompted the last administration to award the contract for renovation. It is shameful that this government has abandoned the project. The hospital conference hall is now converted to children ward. This has resulted in situations where children with cases that demand isolation treatment are being lumped together in a crowded ward which has led to high child mortality incidents in the hospital. The state hospital doesn’t have a morgue, it rather uses embalming room where corpses are embalmed and then left on the floor. An unflattering incident occurred recently when the remains of a man deposited with the mortuary had his feet mutilated and lacerated. The family of the deceased swooped on a hapless mortuary attendant who was promptly accused of mutilating a part of the deceased for diabolical purposes, the man was rough handled; it took the intervention of the hospital authorities for the man to be left off the accusation. Investigation later showed that rats often saunter into the embalming room regularly to dine on human fresh. The sad part of it is that, we have it on good authority that the Oloye Adefarati government procured one morgue which never lasted a year. The morgue was alleged to have been supplied by a proxy company of the then commissioner of health Dr Rahman Mimiko, who instead of supplying a new morgue, was alleged to have supplied a refurbished one. Now that he is the state’s chief executive officer, a provision of another one, even at the expense of the state would have been a pardonable atonement.
Free health is a mirage in the hospital as patients buy every bit of the drug themselves: from tissue papers, hand gloves, syringes and many other minor consumables, you pay through your nose. They are never provided. In fact, to have a caesarian delivery in the hospital, the patient will have to cough out between N30, 0000-N50, 000. What is called the theater room is a dignified slaughter’s slab, nothing modern, nothing inspiring! The outpatient department is the worst hit, as there is no waiting room; patients clubbed around in sun and rain and hardly get desired attention, as many returned home worsted. The hospital doesn’t have a radiologist; a contract radiologist only visits from Federal Medical Center, Owo once in a week. Even doctors in the hospital do not trust ultra sound scan done in the laboratory because of the antiquated machine still being used. The x-ray machine is outdated while the modern Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) cannot be procured by a government that spending so much on endorsement freebies. In fact the general hospital Iwaro Oka -Akoko does not have a functional x-ray machin., You find cases of broken ceilings, craters on the hospital interlink road and many other evidence of lip service to public health.
It is a shameful thing that Ondo state is the only state that doesn’t have teaching hospital in the south west. What this will mean in the long run is that the opportunity for promising Ondo state indigenes to get admission to study medicine is slim. The services of specialist consultant on critical medical services cannot also be received here, while residency experience cannot be obtained in the state’s hospitals. There is no hospital that can attend to serious orthopedic care in the state, this is a reason why Ondo state has the highest density of trado-orthopedic homes (Arogun) in the south west. The import of this is that Ondo state which should lead in the parade of large number of medical professionals as she used to, will now trail her sister states in critical specialized medical professionalism. These are some of the critical issues which this administration has irresponsibly avoided while concentrating on marginally valuable architecture wannabe.
The story of the health sector in Ondo since the beginning of this administration is a sad prologue ending in a tragic epilogue. It is a shambolic affair; a monumental neglect too wicked to be real. It is a product of poorly conceived and digested health policy that is healing the symptoms while hiding the sickness.

By S.A. Aniyi
The time honoured aphorism that: ‘health is wealth’ can hardly ware out of relevance as long as human beings continue to exist. This is as a result of the centrality of health in the organogram of human needs, which is a pointer to the fact it is only a healthy body that can aspire to the promise of human possibility. Without a sound health, every aspiration will only thaw into a liquid of a vast mirage. In fact, the ‘Caring HEART’ sloganeering, which should be the acronym for the sector by sector focus of the government rightly placed ‘H’ which stands for Health in the first position.
It is therefore a thing of great concern to any perceptible resident of Ondo state that such a critical department of government could be criminally neglected and wickedly left to bleed to death. No hyperbole intended! Whereas, most distant observers of the happenings in Ondo state could have been fed with the toxic of unending media theatrics, the reality of the state of the health services in the state is one that brutally contradicts the euphonious rhapsody of an Eldorado which the government of the Dr Olusegun Mimiko has been serving the hapless media consumers with, through devious media manipulations. Like everything else, the government in the state has elevated lurid deceit to the state of government policy.
At the inception of the administration, the government said it was going to focus on the enhancement of primary health care with special interest on maternal and child care services. The governmental policy could hardly be faulted with the unenviable record of the state as one of the most notorious in maternal and infant mortality, with statistics that bested the widely alarming national average limit. It was indeed a great relief that a supposed medical doctor being the head of government and with previous experience as two term commissioner of health in the state, would be in a better position to do the right thing. Unfortunately however, the Labour Party (LP) administration has replaced ‘eye projects’ with high service performance. Almost four years later, the ugly reality in the state hospitals at all levels, is that of descript and comprehensive decadence.
Many would find it hard to reconcile this revelation with the products of propaganda tonnage being churned out daily by the well fortified lie factory of the government. What is being shown is a ‘beautiful showroom’ created to give the impression of an unusual development. The truth about health matter in Ondo state is that, this government decided to clinically kill the existing health facilities across board in order to justify the humongous, but hardly sensible creation of centralized maternity hospital. A project which many concerned patriots have dubbed a conduit pipe used to siphon the tilt of the state. For instance, the two MHCs in Akure and Ondo have gulped close to a billion naira so far, to erect.
The argument of many observers is that, there existed and still extant in the state, four State Specialist Hospitals in Akure, Ondo, Ikare-Akoko and Okitipupa. These hospitals were established by the late Oloye Adebayo Adefarati when Dr Rahman Mimiko was in charge as commissioner of health. The specialist hospitals were designed to provide tertiary health services; with all major departments of human health present; including the Gynaecology Department (which houses the Obstetrics and Paediatrics Units, and) which provides same functions that the so called Mother and Child Hospital in Akure provides. Besides, the state has what is called five ‘tier B’ and 10 ‘tier C’ general hospitals, while there are 18 Comprehensive Health Centers, enhanced with Basic Health Centers across the villages. Building of physical infrastructure has never been a major problem, especially in the urban area, if ever existed; it would be in the often neglected, hinterlands. The problems had been and still remain: poor and outdated facilities, poorly trained personnel, lack of essential drugs, traditional beliefs and shortage of medical personnel.
These obvious challenges were left unattended to, while building of new huge Obstetrics Hospitals was considered more expedient. No doubt any uncritical stranger in Ondo state would be mesmerized by the sprawling edifice called Mother & Child Hospital (MHC), but beneath, is a cancerous rot and an exemplary case of resource mismanagement. Worse still, even though about 80% of the state’s capital votes on health are expended on the MHC buildings; the state has only delivered one that is located in Akure. The second one in Ondo town has not been completed three years later. Similarly, the Abiye Safe Motherhood programme lunched with fanfare in Igbara-Oke three years ago has remained product of elusive sophistry. In theory, the public is made to believe that the state has attached each pregnant woman with a doctor, given a preloaded mobile phone and can call for ambulance services at any time of the day, free of charge. It is nothing but an oversize whopper; people know this is one of the hallmarks of the chicanery which has patently defined this government. It is a mere fanciful phantom idea, projected in power- point presentation to hypnotize the easily impressed Western donor houses. Apart from the publicity intended and showy demonstration centre in Igbara-Oke, the Abiye fantasy has virtually become an idea in the grave yard.
It must be added that one of the promises of this administration is the provision of free health services. Any semblance of this only exists partially in the MHC and Igbara-Oke showrooms. Patients pay for everything but consultancy services in the other health facilities across the state. For instance, drugs are permanently out of stock in the State Specialist Hospital, Akure which ordinarily should be the most fortified, being the biggest and foremost medical institution of the state. If gold can rust, what is the hope for the iron! Unlike what is obtainable in other neighboring states which have free health coverage for age 0-12 and for the elderly from age 65-above, the free health provided in the MHC only covers age 0-5. Which means the service only takes care of obstetric services. This service does not also cover post natal services for the mother. Already, the MHC Akure has been overstretched and always overcrowded as people scramble to benefit from the partial free health provided in the hospital which is denied the other existing health facilities. Pregnant women have to keep vigil so as to wake as early as 4am to board motorcycle to MHC so as to get tally for antenatal booking as the registration only takes place once a week and closes 10am. The hospital has become a huge corruption racketeering center where people have to tip the staff of the hospital to get a tally. Many fail to get booked, end up frustrated and are forced to opt for traditional birth attendants, because of the lack of money, in spite of the known risk attached. With all the hypes about this hospital, it is shocking and inconceivable that it cannot handle not-too-serious medical cases such as post-partum hemorrhage, which is often referred to the senselessly abandoned State Specialist Hospital, Akure.
Many have equally asked the question as to why MCH is not under the control of the Ondo State Hospital Management Board which is statutorily empowered to superintend on the state owned health institutions. The MCH is directly in the Governor’s office and is being managed by a governor’s nephew who is the Chief Medical Director. He gives no stewardship to anyone and award of contracts are never discussed with any known management committee. Even though the bulk of the personnel are employees of the Hospital Management Board, the board is an onlooker in matters of emoluments, discipline, promotion and redeployment. To borrow the PDP’s mantra, ‘it is a family affairs’!
Whereas the MHC might not be entirely useless especially in Akure, and can even be seen as an extension of the State Hospital, what is disheartening is the deliberate policy of its systematic castration through willful abandonment. This seems to be consistent with the idiosyncrasy of this government which tends to project itself as the only government that has ever done something great in the state. Thus, existing legacies are left to decay while money is spent to reproduce the same value through fanciful nomenclature and colour coating. Let us x-ray the litany of challenges facing the once enviable State Specialist Hospital, Akure which remains the highest medical institution in the state.
Most of the buildings in the hospital are dilapidated and need total overhaul, expansion and refurbishing. Cases of leaking roofs, including consulting rooms; broken beds, and stinking lavatories as a result of inadequate water supply persist unattended to. It would be recalled that this government sunk six boreholes for which it receives tons of appreciation, but it is regrettable that the boreholes did not see another six months when they broke down irretrievably. Since then, the hospital has been made to depend on the old borehole and periodic water supply from other sources. The hospital’s children ward remained abandoned since 2008. The ward was blown off by the wind and almost collapsed then, which prompted the last administration to award the contract for renovation. It is shameful that this government has abandoned the project. The hospital conference hall is now converted to children ward. This has resulted in situations where children with cases that demand isolation treatment are being lumped together in a crowded ward which has led to high child mortality incidents in the hospital. The state hospital doesn’t have a morgue, it rather uses embalming room where corpses are embalmed and then left on the floor. An unflattering incident occurred recently when the remains of a man deposited with the mortuary had his feet mutilated and lacerated. The family of the deceased swooped on a hapless mortuary attendant who was promptly accused of mutilating a part of the deceased for diabolical purposes, the man was rough handled; it took the intervention of the hospital authorities for the man to be left off the accusation. Investigation later showed that rats often saunter into the embalming room regularly to dine on human fresh. The sad part of it is that, we have it on good authority that the Oloye Adefarati government procured one morgue which never lasted a year. The morgue was alleged to have been supplied by a proxy company of the then commissioner of health Dr Rahman Mimiko, who instead of supplying a new morgue, was alleged to have supplied a refurbished one. Now that he is the state’s chief executive officer, a provision of another one, even at the expense of the state would have been a pardonable atonement.
Free health is a mirage in the hospital as patients buy every bit of the drug themselves: from tissue papers, hand gloves, syringes and many other minor consumables, you pay through your nose. They are never provided. In fact, to have a caesarian delivery in the hospital, the patient will have to cough out between N30, 0000-N50, 000. What is called the theater room is a dignified slaughter’s slab, nothing modern, nothing inspiring! The outpatient department is the worst hit, as there is no waiting room; patients clubbed around in sun and rain and hardly get desired attention, as many returned home worsted. The hospital doesn’t have a radiologist; a contract radiologist only visits from Federal Medical Center, Owo once in a week. Even doctors in the hospital do not trust ultra sound scan done in the laboratory because of the antiquated machine still being used. The x-ray machine is outdated while the modern Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) cannot be procured by a government that spending so much on endorsement freebies. In fact the general hospital Iwaro Oka -Akoko does not have a functional x-ray machin., You find cases of broken ceilings, craters on the hospital interlink road and many other evidence of lip service to public health.
It is a shameful thing that Ondo state is the only state that doesn’t have teaching hospital in the south west. What this will mean in the long run is that the opportunity for promising Ondo state indigenes to get admission to study medicine is slim. The services of specialist consultant on critical medical services cannot also be received here, while residency experience cannot be obtained in the state’s hospitals. There is no hospital that can attend to serious orthopedic care in the state, this is a reason why Ondo state has the highest density of trado-orthopedic homes (Arogun) in the south west. The import of this is that Ondo state which should lead in the parade of large number of medical professionals as she used to, will now trail her sister states in critical specialized medical professionalism. These are some of the critical issues which this administration has irresponsibly avoided while concentrating on marginally valuable architecture wannabe.
The story of the health sector in Ondo since the beginning of this administration is a sad prologue ending in a tragic epilogue. It is a shambolic affair; a monumental neglect too wicked to be real. It is a product of poorly conceived and digested health policy that is healing the symptoms while hiding the sickness.

By S.A. Aniyi
The time honoured aphorism that: ‘health is wealth’ can hardly ware out of relevance as long as human beings continue to exist. This is as a result of the centrality of health in the organogram of human needs, which is a pointer to the fact it is only a healthy body that can aspire to the promise of human possibility. Without a sound health, every aspiration will only thaw into a liquid of a vast mirage. In fact, the ‘Caring HEART’ sloganeering, which should be the acronym for the sector by sector focus of the government rightly placed ‘H’ which stands for Health in the first position.
It is therefore a thing of great concern to any perceptible resident of Ondo state that such a critical department of government could be criminally neglected and wickedly left to bleed to death. No hyperbole intended! Whereas, most distant observers of the happenings in Ondo state could have been fed with the toxic of unending media theatrics, the reality of the state of the health services in the state is one that brutally contradicts the euphonious rhapsody of an Eldorado which the government of the Dr Olusegun Mimiko has been serving the hapless media consumers with, through devious media manipulations. Like everything else, the government in the state has elevated lurid deceit to the state of government policy.
At the inception of the administration, the government said it was going to focus on the enhancement of primary health care with special interest on maternal and child care services. The governmental policy could hardly be faulted with the unenviable record of the state as one of the most notorious in maternal and infant mortality, with statistics that bested the widely alarming national average limit. It was indeed a great relief that a supposed medical doctor being the head of government and with previous experience as two term commissioner of health in the state, would be in a better position to do the right thing. Unfortunately however, the Labour Party (LP) administration has replaced ‘eye projects’ with high service performance. Almost four years later, the ugly reality in the state hospitals at all levels, is that of descript and comprehensive decadence.
Many would find it hard to reconcile this revelation with the products of propaganda tonnage being churned out daily by the well fortified lie factory of the government. What is being shown is a ‘beautiful showroom’ created to give the impression of an unusual development. The truth about health matter in Ondo state is that, this government decided to clinically kill the existing health facilities across board in order to justify the humongous, but hardly sensible creation of centralized maternity hospital. A project which many concerned patriots have dubbed a conduit pipe used to siphon the tilt of the state. For instance, the two MHCs in Akure and Ondo have gulped close to a billion naira so far, to erect.
The argument of many observers is that, there existed and still extant in the state, four State Specialist Hospitals in Akure, Ondo, Ikare-Akoko and Okitipupa. These hospitals were established by the late Oloye Adebayo Adefarati when Dr Rahman Mimiko was in charge as commissioner of health. The specialist hospitals were designed to provide tertiary health services; with all major departments of human health present; including the Gynaecology Department (which houses the Obstetrics and Paediatrics Units, and) which provides same functions that the so called Mother and Child Hospital in Akure provides. Besides, the state has what is called five ‘tier B’ and 10 ‘tier C’ general hospitals, while there are 18 Comprehensive Health Centers, enhanced with Basic Health Centers across the villages. Building of physical infrastructure has never been a major problem, especially in the urban area, if ever existed; it would be in the often neglected, hinterlands. The problems had been and still remain: poor and outdated facilities, poorly trained personnel, lack of essential drugs, traditional beliefs and shortage of medical personnel.
These obvious challenges were left unattended to, while building of new huge Obstetrics Hospitals was considered more expedient. No doubt any uncritical stranger in Ondo state would be mesmerized by the sprawling edifice called Mother & Child Hospital (MHC), but beneath, is a cancerous rot and an exemplary case of resource mismanagement. Worse still, even though about 80% of the state’s capital votes on health are expended on the MHC buildings; the state has only delivered one that is located in Akure. The second one in Ondo town has not been completed three years later. Similarly, the Abiye Safe Motherhood programme lunched with fanfare in Igbara-Oke three years ago has remained product of elusive sophistry. In theory, the public is made to believe that the state has attached each pregnant woman with a doctor, given a preloaded mobile phone and can call for ambulance services at any time of the day, free of charge. It is nothing but an oversize whopper; people know this is one of the hallmarks of the chicanery which has patently defined this government. It is a mere fanciful phantom idea, projected in power- point presentation to hypnotize the easily impressed Western donor houses. Apart from the publicity intended and showy demonstration centre in Igbara-Oke, the Abiye fantasy has virtually become an idea in the grave yard.
It must be added that one of the promises of this administration is the provision of free health services. Any semblance of this only exists partially in the MHC and Igbara-Oke showrooms. Patients pay for everything but consultancy services in the other health facilities across the state. For instance, drugs are permanently out of stock in the State Specialist Hospital, Akure which ordinarily should be the most fortified, being the biggest and foremost medical institution of the state. If gold can rust, what is the hope for the iron! Unlike what is obtainable in other neighboring states which have free health coverage for age 0-12 and for the elderly from age 65-above, the free health provided in the MHC only covers age 0-5. Which means the service only takes care of obstetric services. This service does not also cover post natal services for the mother. Already, the MHC Akure has been overstretched and always overcrowded as people scramble to benefit from the partial free health provided in the hospital which is denied the other existing health facilities. Pregnant women have to keep vigil so as to wake as early as 4am to board motorcycle to MHC so as to get tally for antenatal booking as the registration only takes place once a week and closes 10am. The hospital has become a huge corruption racketeering center where people have to tip the staff of the hospital to get a tally. Many fail to get booked, end up frustrated and are forced to opt for traditional birth attendants, because of the lack of money, in spite of the known risk attached. With all the hypes about this hospital, it is shocking and inconceivable that it cannot handle not-too-serious medical cases such as post-partum hemorrhage, which is often referred to the senselessly abandoned State Specialist Hospital, Akure.
Many have equally asked the question as to why MCH is not under the control of the Ondo State Hospital Management Board which is statutorily empowered to superintend on the state owned health institutions. The MCH is directly in the Governor’s office and is being managed by a governor’s nephew who is the Chief Medical Director. He gives no stewardship to anyone and award of contracts are never discussed with any known management committee. Even though the bulk of the personnel are employees of the Hospital Management Board, the board is an onlooker in matters of emoluments, discipline, promotion and redeployment. To borrow the PDP’s mantra, ‘it is a family affairs’!
Whereas the MHC might not be entirely useless especially in Akure, and can even be seen as an extension of the State Hospital, what is disheartening is the deliberate policy of its systematic castration through willful abandonment. This seems to be consistent with the idiosyncrasy of this government which tends to project itself as the only government that has ever done something great in the state. Thus, existing legacies are left to decay while money is spent to reproduce the same value through fanciful nomenclature and colour coating. Let us x-ray the litany of challenges facing the once enviable State Specialist Hospital, Akure which remains the highest medical institution in the state.
Most of the buildings in the hospital are dilapidated and need total overhaul, expansion and refurbishing. Cases of leaking roofs, including consulting rooms; broken beds, and stinking lavatories as a result of inadequate water supply persist unattended to. It would be recalled that this government sunk six boreholes for which it receives tons of appreciation, but it is regrettable that the boreholes did not see another six months when they broke down irretrievably. Since then, the hospital has been made to depend on the old borehole and periodic water supply from other sources. The hospital’s children ward remained abandoned since 2008. The ward was blown off by the wind and almost collapsed then, which prompted the last administration to award the contract for renovation. It is shameful that this government has abandoned the project. The hospital conference hall is now converted to children ward. This has resulted in situations where children with cases that demand isolation treatment are being lumped together in a crowded ward which has led to high child mortality incidents in the hospital. The state hospital doesn’t have a morgue, it rather uses embalming room where corpses are embalmed and then left on the floor. An unflattering incident occurred recently when the remains of a man deposited with the mortuary had his feet mutilated and lacerated. The family of the deceased swooped on a hapless mortuary attendant who was promptly accused of mutilating a part of the deceased for diabolical purposes, the man was rough handled; it took the intervention of the hospital authorities for the man to be left off the accusation. Investigation later showed that rats often saunter into the embalming room regularly to dine on human fresh. The sad part of it is that, we have it on good authority that the Oloye Adefarati government procured one morgue which never lasted a year. The morgue was alleged to have been supplied by a proxy company of the then commissioner of health Dr Rahman Mimiko, who instead of supplying a new morgue, was alleged to have supplied a refurbished one. Now that he is the state’s chief executive officer, a provision of another one, even at the expense of the state would have been a pardonable atonement.
Free health is a mirage in the hospital as patients buy every bit of the drug themselves: from tissue papers, hand gloves, syringes and many other minor consumables, you pay through your nose. They are never provided. In fact, to have a caesarian delivery in the hospital, the patient will have to cough out between N30, 0000-N50, 000. What is called the theater room is a dignified slaughter’s slab, nothing modern, nothing inspiring! The outpatient department is the worst hit, as there is no waiting room; patients clubbed around in sun and rain and hardly get desired attention, as many returned home worsted. The hospital doesn’t have a radiologist; a contract radiologist only visits from Federal Medical Center, Owo once in a week. Even doctors in the hospital do not trust ultra sound scan done in the laboratory because of the antiquated machine still being used. The x-ray machine is outdated while the modern Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) cannot be procured by a government that spending so much on endorsement freebies. In fact the general hospital Iwaro Oka -Akoko does not have a functional x-ray machin., You find cases of broken ceilings, craters on the hospital interlink road and many other evidence of lip service to public health.
It is a shameful thing that Ondo state is the only state that doesn’t have teaching hospital in the south west. What this will mean in the long run is that the opportunity for promising Ondo state indigenes to get admission to study medicine is slim. The services of specialist consultant on critical medical services cannot also be received here, while residency experience cannot be obtained in the state’s hospitals. There is no hospital that can attend to serious orthopedic care in the state, this is a reason why Ondo state has the highest density of trado-orthopedic homes (Arogun) in the south west. The import of this is that Ondo state which should lead in the parade of large number of medical professionals as she used to, will now trail her sister states in critical specialized medical professionalism. These are some of the critical issues which this administration has irresponsibly avoided while concentrating on marginally valuable architecture wannabe.
The story of the health sector in Ondo since the beginning of this administration is a sad prologue ending in a tragic epilogue. It is a shambolic affair; a monumental neglect too wicked to be real. It is a product of poorly conceived and digested health policy that is healing the symptoms while hiding the sickness.

This is a mirage,if Tinubu is plunging south/west in debt what are the legacies of the past PDP cabals like OBJ,Daniel,Anenih,Lucky iginedion,orji uzor,Akala,Oyinlola and Ayo fayose etc. i think it is a plot to distabilise Yoruba with their self political interest.ACN is equal to the task

By S.A. Aniyi
The time honoured aphorism that: ‘health is wealth’ can hardly ware out of relevance as long as human beings continue to exist. This is as a result of the centrality of health in the organogram of human needs, which is a pointer to the fact it is only a healthy body that can aspire to the promise of human possibility. Without a sound health, every aspiration will only thaw into a liquid of a vast mirage. In fact, the ‘Caring HEART’ sloganeering, which should be the acronym for the sector by sector focus of the government rightly placed ‘H’ which stands for Health in the first position.
It is therefore a thing of great concern to any perceptible resident of Ondo state that such a critical department of government could be criminally neglected and wickedly left to bleed to death. No hyperbole intended! Whereas, most distant observers of the happenings in Ondo state could have been fed with the toxic of unending media theatrics, the reality of the state of the health services in the state is one that brutally contradicts the euphonious rhapsody of an Eldorado which the government of the Dr Olusegun Mimiko has been serving the hapless media consumers with, through devious media manipulations. Like everything else, the government in the state has elevated lurid deceit to the state of government policy.
At the inception of the administration, the government said it was going to focus on the enhancement of primary health care with special interest on maternal and child care services. The governmental policy could hardly be faulted with the unenviable record of the state as one of the most notorious in maternal and infant mortality, with statistics that bested the widely alarming national average limit. It was indeed a great relief that a supposed medical doctor being the head of government and with previous experience as two term commissioner of health in the state, would be in a better position to do the right thing. Unfortunately however, the Labour Party (LP) administration has replaced ‘eye projects’ with high service performance. Almost four years later, the ugly reality in the state hospitals at all levels, is that of descript and comprehensive decadence.
Many would find it hard to reconcile this revelation with the products of propaganda tonnage being churned out daily by the well fortified lie factory of the government. What is being shown is a ‘beautiful showroom’ created to give the impression of an unusual development. The truth about health matter in Ondo state is that, this government decided to clinically kill the existing health facilities across board in order to justify the humongous, but hardly sensible creation of centralized maternity hospital. A project which many concerned patriots have dubbed a conduit pipe used to siphon the tilt of the state. For instance, the two MHCs in Akure and Ondo have gulped close to a billion naira so far, to erect.
The argument of many observers is that, there existed and still extant in the state, four State Specialist Hospitals in Akure, Ondo, Ikare-Akoko and Okitipupa. These hospitals were established by the late Oloye Adebayo Adefarati when Dr Rahman Mimiko was in charge as commissioner of health. The specialist hospitals were designed to provide tertiary health services; with all major departments of human health present; including the Gynaecology Department (which houses the Obstetrics and Paediatrics Units, and) which provides same functions that the so called Mother and Child Hospital in Akure provides. Besides, the state has what is called five ‘tier B’ and 10 ‘tier C’ general hospitals, while there are 18 Comprehensive Health Centers, enhanced with Basic Health Centers across the villages. Building of physical infrastructure has never been a major problem, especially in the urban area, if ever existed; it would be in the often neglected, hinterlands. The problems had been and still remain: poor and outdated facilities, poorly trained personnel, lack of essential drugs, traditional beliefs and shortage of medical personnel.
These obvious challenges were left unattended to, while building of new huge Obstetrics Hospitals was considered more expedient. No doubt any uncritical stranger in Ondo state would be mesmerized by the sprawling edifice called Mother & Child Hospital (MHC), but beneath, is a cancerous rot and an exemplary case of resource mismanagement. Worse still, even though about 80% of the state’s capital votes on health are expended on the MHC buildings; the state has only delivered one that is located in Akure. The second one in Ondo town has not been completed three years later. Similarly, the Abiye Safe Motherhood programme lunched with fanfare in Igbara-Oke three years ago has remained product of elusive sophistry. In theory, the public is made to believe that the state has attached each pregnant woman with a doctor, given a preloaded mobile phone and can call for ambulance services at any time of the day, free of charge. It is nothing but an oversize whopper; people know this is one of the hallmarks of the chicanery which has patently defined this government. It is a mere fanciful phantom idea, projected in power- point presentation to hypnotize the easily impressed Western donor houses. Apart from the publicity intended and showy demonstration centre in Igbara-Oke, the Abiye fantasy has virtually become an idea in the grave yard.
It must be added that one of the promises of this administration is the provision of free health services. Any semblance of this only exists partially in the MHC and Igbara-Oke showrooms. Patients pay for everything but consultancy services in the other health facilities across the state. For instance, drugs are permanently out of stock in the State Specialist Hospital, Akure which ordinarily should be the most fortified, being the biggest and foremost medical institution of the state. If gold can rust, what is the hope for the iron! Unlike what is obtainable in other neighboring states which have free health coverage for age 0-12 and for the elderly from age 65-above, the free health provided in the MHC only covers age 0-5. Which means the service only takes care of obstetric services. This service does not also cover post natal services for the mother. Already, the MHC Akure has been overstretched and always overcrowded as people scramble to benefit from the partial free health provided in the hospital which is denied the other existing health facilities. Pregnant women have to keep vigil so as to wake as early as 4am to board motorcycle to MHC so as to get tally for antenatal booking as the registration only takes place once a week and closes 10am. The hospital has become a huge corruption racketeering center where people have to tip the staff of the hospital to get a tally. Many fail to get booked, end up frustrated and are forced to opt for traditional birth attendants, because of the lack of money, in spite of the known risk attached. With all the hypes about this hospital, it is shocking and inconceivable that it cannot handle not-too-serious medical cases such as post-partum hemorrhage, which is often referred to the senselessly abandoned State Specialist Hospital, Akure.
Many have equally asked the question as to why MCH is not under the control of the Ondo State Hospital Management Board which is statutorily empowered to superintend on the state owned health institutions. The MCH is directly in the Governor’s office and is being managed by a governor’s nephew who is the Chief Medical Director. He gives no stewardship to anyone and award of contracts are never discussed with any known management committee. Even though the bulk of the personnel are employees of the Hospital Management Board, the board is an onlooker in matters of emoluments, discipline, promotion and redeployment. To borrow the PDP’s mantra, ‘it is a family affairs’!
Whereas the MHC might not be entirely useless especially in Akure, and can even be seen as an extension of the State Hospital, what is disheartening is the deliberate policy of its systematic castration through willful abandonment. This seems to be consistent with the idiosyncrasy of this government which tends to project itself as the only government that has ever done something great in the state. Thus, existing legacies are left to decay while money is spent to reproduce the same value through fanciful nomenclature and colour coating. Let us x-ray the litany of challenges facing the once enviable State Specialist Hospital, Akure which remains the highest medical institution in the state.
Most of the buildings in the hospital are dilapidated and need total overhaul, expansion and refurbishing. Cases of leaking roofs, including consulting rooms; broken beds, and stinking lavatories as a result of inadequate water supply persist unattended to. It would be recalled that this government sunk six boreholes for which it receives tons of appreciation, but it is regrettable that the boreholes did not see another six months when they broke down irretrievably. Since then, the hospital has been made to depend on the old borehole and periodic water supply from other sources. The hospital’s children ward remained abandoned since 2008. The ward was blown off by the wind and almost collapsed then, which prompted the last administration to award the contract for renovation. It is shameful that this government has abandoned the project. The hospital conference hall is now converted to children ward. This has resulted in situations where children with cases that demand isolation treatment are being lumped together in a crowded ward which has led to high child mortality incidents in the hospital. The state hospital doesn’t have a morgue, it rather uses embalming room where corpses are embalmed and then left on the floor. An unflattering incident occurred recently when the remains of a man deposited with the mortuary had his feet mutilated and lacerated. The family of the deceased swooped on a hapless mortuary attendant who was promptly accused of mutilating a part of the deceased for diabolical purposes, the man was rough handled; it took the intervention of the hospital authorities for the man to be left off the accusation. Investigation later showed that rats often saunter into the embalming room regularly to dine on human fresh. The sad part of it is that, we have it on good authority that the Oloye Adefarati government procured one morgue which never lasted a year. The morgue was alleged to have been supplied by a proxy company of the then commissioner of health Dr Rahman Mimiko, who instead of supplying a new morgue, was alleged to have supplied a refurbished one. Now that he is the state’s chief executive officer, a provision of another one, even at the expense of the state would have been a pardonable atonement.
Free health is a mirage in the hospital as patients buy every bit of the drug themselves: from tissue papers, hand gloves, syringes and many other minor consumables, you pay through your nose. They are never provided. In fact, to have a caesarian delivery in the hospital, the patient will have to cough out between N30, 0000-N50, 000. What is called the theater room is a dignified slaughter’s slab, nothing modern, nothing inspiring! The outpatient department is the worst hit, as there is no waiting room; patients clubbed around in sun and rain and hardly get desired attention, as many returned home worsted. The hospital doesn’t have a radiologist; a contract radiologist only visits from Federal Medical Center, Owo once in a week. Even doctors in the hospital do not trust ultra sound scan done in the laboratory because of the antiquated machine still being used. The x-ray machine is outdated while the modern Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) cannot be procured by a government that spending so much on endorsement freebies. In fact the general hospital Iwaro Oka -Akoko does not have a functional x-ray machin., You find cases of broken ceilings, craters on the hospital interlink road and many other evidence of lip service to public health.
It is a shameful thing that Ondo state is the only state that doesn’t have teaching hospital in the south west. What this will mean in the long run is that the opportunity for promising Ondo state indigenes to get admission to study medicine is slim. The services of specialist consultant on critical medical services cannot also be received here, while residency experience cannot be obtained in the state’s hospitals. There is no hospital that can attend to serious orthopedic care in the state, this is a reason why Ondo state has the highest density of trado-orthopedic homes (Arogun) in the south west. The import of this is that Ondo state which should lead in the parade of large number of medical professionals as she used to, will now trail her sister states in critical specialized medical professionalism. These are some of the critical issues which this administration has irresponsibly avoided while concentrating on marginally valuable architecture wannabe.
The story of the health sector in Ondo since the beginning of this administration is a sad prologue ending in a tragic epilogue. It is a shambolic affair; a monumental neglect too wicked to be real. It is a product of poorly conceived and digested health policy that is healing the symptoms while hiding the sickness.

Project abandoned and disdains nature of Iroko Administration
New faculty AAUA Akungba, rehabilitation of Egbe Dam,Awarra dam,New Stadium at Akungba,Owena Dam,Omotosho industrial park,Ondo State university of Technology, Olokola free trade zone,Igbokoda Ugbo nla road,OKFTZ road,Ugbo nla Aiyetoro road,Ugbo Oghoye electrification project and host of others, the money needed to revitalise these project will more than the originally spent such a waste of resources. The full story of Dr.Mimiko misadventure in government and injury to the people is a task for another development.
Akoko people should be cognizant that the mush expected AAUA faculty of medicine will be relocated to Ondo town if he succeeded 2nd term.
The much talk about mother and child hospital is a glorified maternity centre available at Akure ineffective service delivery. It’s indeed an intellectual error and laughable that contrary to the UN standard that aims at locating primary school as close as possible to the door of parents and the pupil, Iroko is planning to destroy neighbourhood school and transfer the pupil to the so called mega school. Thereby creating inconvenience for parent and teacher for the sake of selfish interest and propaganda senseless government however, on his free school bus, these are buses donated by Federal government to cushion effect of subsidy removal and converted to score cheap political mark as free ride moreso,children spent unreasonable time waiting at the bus stop many of them which I interview complained bitterly on the trauma as they get to school as late as 9am-10am and got home 5pm-6pm waiting 2-3hours for the bus to come at time no bus forthcoming at all just for the sake of political propaganda. These are verifiable facts.

Project abandoned and disdains nature of Iroko Administration
New faculty AAUA Akungba, rehabilitation of Egbe Dam,Awarra dam,New Stadium at Akungba,Owena Dam,Omotosho industrial park,Ondo State university of Technology, Olokola free trade zone,Igbokoda Ugbo nla road,OKFTZ road,Ugbo nla Aiyetoro road,Ugbo Oghoye electrification project and host of others, the money needed to revitalise these project will more than the originally spent such a waste of resources. The full story of Dr.Mimiko misadventure in government and injury to the people is a task for another development.
Akoko people should be cognizant that the mush expected AAUA faculty of medicine will be relocated to Ondo town if he succeeded 2nd term.
The much talk about mother and child hospital is a glorified maternity centre available at Akure ineffective service delivery. It’s indeed an intellectual error and laughable that contrary to the UN standard that aims at locating primary school as close as possible to the door of parents and the pupil, Iroko is planning to destroy neighbourhood school and transfer the pupil to the so called mega school. Thereby creating inconvenience for parent and teacher for the sake of selfish interest and propaganda senseless government however, on his free school bus, these are buses donated by Federal government to cushion effect of subsidy removal and converted to score cheap political mark as free ride moreso,children spent unreasonable time waiting at the bus stop many of them which I interview complained bitterly on the trauma as they get to school as late as 9am-10am and got home 5pm-6pm waiting 2-3hours for the bus to come at time no bus forthcoming at all just for the sake of political propaganda. These are verifiable facts.

Whatever they say about Jaganba of Africa is sentiment and anger. The only state functioning in Nigeria today is Lagos, because of the legacy laid by Asiwaju there is no one in Nigeria that can match Tinubu’s achievement all of you that criticise him are mediocrities .Ondo state for example has potential to compete with Lagos in term of infrastructure and economy development. Mimiko has not use the so much wealth and potentials to attract any investor to the state. No single foreign direct investment and public private partnership, all we can see is inducing individual and group with cash to speak on his behalf over 400 million spent on declaration day economic wise this money can create job for 10,000 people not to talk of more than 500billion subvention excluding loan and internal generated revenue.
No single industries function in the state. The state that has the second largest deposit of bitumen in the world Iroko is not expose to attract investor to tap huge resource available in the state .
Ondo state has the largest level of unemployment in Nigeria. Akeredolu is on rescue mission. Mimiko is doing all these within is exposure and capacity not capable of delivery 21st century dividend of democracy. AKETI has travelled far and wide and has all it takes to transform the state within a short period of timeif given opportunity.

Project abandoned and disdains nature of Iroko Administration
New faculty AAUA Akungba, rehabilitation of Egbe Dam,Awarra dam,New Stadium at Akungba,Owena Dam,Omotosho industrial park,Ondo State university of Technology, Olokola free trade zone,Igbokoda Ugbo nla road,OKFTZ road,Ugbo nla Aiyetoro road,Ugbo Oghoye electrification project and host of others, the money needed to revitalise these project will more than the originally spent such a waste of resources. The full story of Dr.Mimiko misadventure in government and injury to the people is a task for another development.
Akoko people should be cognizant that the mush expected AAUA faculty of medicine will be relocated to Ondo town if he succeeded 2nd term.
The much talk about mother and child hospital is a glorified maternity centre available at Akure ineffective service delivery. It’s indeed an intellectual error and laughable that contrary to the UN standard that aims at locating primary school as close as possible to the door of parents and the pupil, Iroko is planning to destroy neighbourhood school and transfer the pupil to the so called mega school. Thereby creating inconvenience for parent and teacher for the sake of selfish interest and propaganda senseless government however, on his free school bus, these are buses donated by Federal government to cushion effect of subsidy removal and converted to score cheap political mark as free ride moreso,children spent unreasonable time waiting at the bus stop many of them which I interview complained bitterly on the trauma as they get to school as late as 9am-10am and got home 5pm-6pm waiting 2-3hours for the bus to come at time no bus forthcoming at all just for the sake of political propaganda. These are verifiable facts.


Whatever they say about Jaganba of Africa is sentiment and anger. The only state functioning in Nigeria today is Lagos, because of the legacy laid by Asiwaju there is no one in Nigeria that can match Tinubu’s achievement all of you that criticise him are mediocrities .Ondo state for example has potential to compete with Lagos in term of infrastructure and economy development. Mimiko has not use the so much wealth and potentials to attract any investor to the state. No single foreign direct investment and public private partnership, all we can see is inducing individual and group with cash to speak on his behalf over 400 million spent on declaration day economic wise this money can create job for 10,000 people not to talk of more than 500billion subvention excluding loan and internal generated revenue.
No single industries function in the state. The state that has the second largest deposit of bitumen in the world Iroko is not expose to attract investor to tap huge resource available in the state .
Ondo state has the largest level of unemployment in Nigeria. Akeredolu is on rescue mission. Mimiko is doing all these within is exposure and capacity not capable of delivery 21st century dividend of democracy. AKETI has travelled far and wide and has all it takes to transform the state within a short period of timeif given opportunity.

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THE CREED FOR ACTION
OLUWAROTIMI O. AKEREDOLU ESQ. SAN
ONDO STATE GOVERNORSHIP CAMPAIGN
DECLARATION
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AKURE
11TH APRIL 2012
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THE CREED FOR ACTION
INTRODUCTION
There is bound to be some unanimity in the opinions expressed on what
appears as progressive degeneration in Ondo State. There is virtually no
aspect of our lives that has not been affected, adversely, by a combination
of factors. The ascendance to position of authority by clueless elements in
all tiers of government is directly responsible for the parlous state of our
infrastructure. The situation at present is all the more deplorable owing to
the relentless pillage of our commonwealth by successive governments.
The state bleeds profusely at present from the devious designs of
functionaries who embark on meaningless projects ostensibly to defraud.
There has been a preponderance of over-bloated contracts for white
elephant projects, a direct indication of a regrettable mindset predisposed
to looting.
There have been attempts made to elevate cheap propaganda to state art;
suborned tabloids fall over themselves to sing the praises of a
directionless political leadership. Nebulous civil society organisations
promoted by the government of the day shower encomiums on the
Governor endlessly. It has taken outsiders to recognise the imaginary
achievements of the current government. The reality on ground is the
day-to-day song and dance which is dubbed governance. Sycophancy is
promoted and genuine criticisms offered to government attract caustic
reactions. The recent revelation on the mindless looting of scarce
resources in the state supports our position that the art of governance
must not be left in the hands of those whose sole purpose in government
is crude acquisition of material wealth.
I make a solemn pledge to reverse this unfortunate trend. Our great party,
Action Congress of Nigeria, as my choice of political platform to realise
this dream, is not fortuitous. I have been an ardent follower of Chief
Obafemi Awolowo’s political philosophy right from my secondary school
days. The Action Group was a party whose achievements remain
unrivalled in the annals of politics in Nigeria. I grew up in Owo and
witnessed the progressive politics of the nascent party at a close distance.
Pa Michael Adekunle Ajasin was an inspiration to most of us in those
days. The Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, rose from the ashes of the AG
with four cardinal programmes during the Second Republic. It was the
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only party with a clear vision on how to solve the socio-economic
problems facing the country.
The Alliance for Democracy offered a redemptive message to the people
of the South West at the beginning of the current democratic experience
in 1999. Action Congress emerged to salvage the west from the
rampaging locusts, exponents of the dubious gospel of “mainstream”
politics. The unadulterated message of the new party provided the much
needed balm for the bruised psyche of our people. Other people who
believe in this lofty dream soon joined the Action Congress (AC) to form
a larger party now known as Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), which is
arguably the most formidable opposition party in the country today.
I enter politics with a mark of integrity and uncommon dedication to the
service of the people. My most recent assignment as the President of the
Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, at a time when the country’s political
situation was precarious places me at a vantage position to lead the state
at this critical moment. I make bold to say that I have remained rooted to
the state of my birth despite my sojourn in another state where I practise
my profession. My stint in government as the Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice in the state made it possible for me to
understand the intricacies of governance. I know the challenges faced by
our people and I dare say that most of the socio-economic problems of
the state are a direct result of lack of vision on the part of many of the
successive governments in our State, most especially in recent times.
I have practised law for the better part of my adult life and make bold to
assert that my unceasing interactions with the Judiciary, Legislative and
Legal Institutions place me in a better stead to ensure equity, justice, fairplay,
real investments and physical development of the state in
accordance with the law. I shall embark on developmental programmes
making the people the central focus. At no time will my administration
trample on the rights of the citizens in a bid to mask massive looting and
diversion of the state’s resources. I shall embark on policies of
transformation which generations yet unborn will consider imperishable.
I shall arrest the drift to bankruptcy if I am given the opportunity to serve
the state. The practice which limits the art of governance to the allocation
of revenue from the centre without any ingenious means of creating
wealth will be a thing of the past. I shall strive to establish a synergy
between the private and the public sectors. Civil servants will be
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encouraged to perform the roles for which their offices were established
in the first instance. The economic potentials of the state will be fully
realised. The resources of the state shall be deployed to enhance the
quality of existence of the citizenry.
The welfare of our people shall constitute the primary purpose of
governance. Government, under my leadership, shall maintain a balanced
economic growth. We will be responsible and responsive to the people.
Nature has endowed our state bountifully; I shall avail myself of Ondo
State’s unique qualities and shall utilise capital stocks to improve the lot
of our people. Since development is about people, it will be a matter of
priority for our government to harness the natural, human and cultural
capitals. The near-absolute dependence on oil revenue is unhealthy for a
state whose contribution to the economic development of the old Western
Region was phenomenal. The mere lip service always paid to the crucial
issue of development by successive governments and the deceptive
window dressing of the current administration is antithetical to real
growth.
Our natural capitals, both renewable and non-renewable resources, shall
be managed properly. We shall ensure that the rate of harvest does not
exceed the rate of generation, that is, sustainable yield. In a similar vein,
waste generation and disposal will be handled in a manner that will
ensure that the assimilative capacity of the environment is not overstretched
(sustainable waste disposal). For non-renewable resources, the
rates of waste generation from projects shall not exceed the assimilative
capacity of the environment. The depletion rates should require
comparable development of renewable substitute for those non-renewable
resources such as hydro-carbon (bitumen, oil and gas), solid minerals and
others.
I will strive strenuously to develop the infrastructural base of the state to
an extent that will attract investments. The unique location of our state in
the country will bring genuine businessmen with long term interest in
investing in industries thereby enhancing commercial activities. Tourism
shall become a veritable source of revenue for our state. Our ancient
cities such as Owo, Idanre, Ondo, Oke-Igbo, Okitipupa, Ikare, Akure,
among others, shall witness unprecedented transformation in the area of
tourism. Construction and maintenance of roads shall be a priority in my
administration.
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Our state used to occupy a pride of place in the country as one of the
foremost localities with highly educated indigenes. The rich cultural
heritage of our various communities is legendary. Not a few patriotic
indigenes now wonder how we came to this sorry pass. Can any honest
person join the current bandwagon of praise singers when all there is to
governance is the performance of the absurd? My administration, if
elected, will endeavour to do more than the current showbiz in the
educational sector. Public schools will compete favourably with the best
private schools in the state.
We shall embark on aggressive and massive agricultural and maritime
projects with a view to creating jobs. We will promote cottage industries
which will serve as catalysts to revamp economic activities in the rural
areas. The government will lay a very solid foundation for the agricultural
sector. Exportation of cash crops and semi-finished products will be
achieved to stimulate the economic space and bring real prosperity to
farmers as against cash hand-outs, a practice designed to defraud the
state. Training of farmers in modern farming technology will attract
prime attention from my administration.
Health care delivery system will be developed to an acceptable
international standard which the state can afford to render, comparable to
what obtains in advanced countries if our resources are properly
managed. We will develop primary health care delivery system to the
extent that infant and maternal mortality rates will be drastically reduced.
Our judiciary will be overhauled to enhance quick dispensation of justice.
We will restore hope in the judicial arm of government by ensuring its
independence in the true sence and providing the necessary infrastructural
support. As an active practitioner, I possess sufficient grasp of the needs
of the judiciary. These challenges will be confronted headlong as far as
the extant law permits. I started the reforms when I served as the Attorney
General and Commissioner for Justice of the state. I have since
encountered a bigger picture of the systemic failure in the judiciary as a
very active Bar man and, more importantly, as a former President of the
NBA. My modest achievements are eloquent testimonies to my
determination to make things work in our state.
Our state has been in the news lately due to the aggressive self-promotion
of the government, a thing to expect in the year of election. We were also
made to know that certain elements have been feeding fat on the scarce
resources of the state through nebulous projects and over bloated
contracts. It is sad indeed to know that the real reason why the
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functionaries of the government have thrown themselves into a state of
frenzy in their so called quest for developmental projects is far from their
belief in altruism. Not only will we prevent such fiscal recklessness and
brazen abuse of power, we will be determined to sanction anyone who
tinkers with the resources of the state.
I shall be launching a “State Development Plan” which will act as a guide
towards the realisation of the afore-stated objectives. I intend to predicate
my Vision, based on democratic ideals, on a Five Point Agenda. My
Vision is to make Ondo State the economic, industrial and
technology-driven commercial hub of the South West geo-political
zone where quality of life is sustained in both the rural enclaves and
urban centres based on the principles of regional competitiveness and
integration. The cardinal principles upon which my administration shall
set sail are listed below:
1. Agriculture
2. Knowledge
3. Entrepreneurship
4. Technology
5. Infrastructure
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AGRICULTURE
Food Security
The government under my leadership will ensure that there is a marked
departure from the current practice wherein farmers are dumped and
forgotten in obscure centres in the rural areas and are brought out
periodically for photo sessions to score cheap political points. We shall
take the issue of farm settlements as a top priority. It is scandalous that an
issue as basic as food is becoming a major challenge in a state which
paraded wealthy farmers in the past. Only experts who are ready to assist
in solving problems will be engaged at any level.
The knowledge that this state can serve as the food basket of the region,
against the backdrop of the heart-corroding over-dependence on oil
revenue, is scandalous, to state the least. There is no part of the state that
is not economically viable. It takes a visionary leadership to recognise the
significance of agriculture in the economy of the state. Cash crops such as
cocoa, rubber, oil palm, coffee, timber, cow pea, cassava, yam, kolanut,
maize, Soya beans, citrus, plantain etc can be cultivated on an industrial
scale in the state.
Cocoa is cultivable in all parts of the state. It is sad indeed that this
erstwhile money spinner plays no noticeable role in the so called
internally generated revenue in the state today. What justification can
there be for the relegation of this cash crop to subsistence existence? Is
anyone thinking of what the resuscitation of the cultivation of this cash
crop will do to the moribund industries in the state? My administration
will encourage the establishment of agro-allied industries which have the
capacity to produce cocoa butter, cocoa powder, cocoa liquor and
beverages. Any private concern which displays sufficient commitment
towards development along the line of production will be most welcome.
Rubber is found in Araromi Obu and the Forest Belt of the state in
commercial quantity. How great will it be if the industries rushing to
Ghana are convinced to return to Ondo State for the purpose of
manufacturing tyre for both local consumption and export?
Oil Palm is cultivable in all parts of the state. Malaysia came to the
country to pick palm kernel seedlings in 1962. That country is the chief
exporter of palm oil products in the world today. My administration will
revive the cultivation of oil palm plantations in the state.
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Coffee can be cultivated in the Forest Zones. Beverages and stimulants
can be produced from this crop.
Timber abounds in the Forest zones and a few other areas in the state.
Planks, logs, panels will be available for both local use and export. Cow
pea, yam and cassava can be cultivated in almost every part of the state.
Grits, flour, adhesives, starch, feeds, cassava chips, livestock, yeast and
mosquito expellers are direct derivatives of these crops. Kolanut can
flourish in Oke igbo, Ondo, Ijare, Ore, and generally in Forest zone.
Maize is a staple crop in most parts of the western region. From this we
can derive corn flour, grit and maize for domestic and industrial use.
The cultivation of Soya beans, citrus and plantain may be widespread in
that virtually all parts of our state can engage in their farming even on an
industrial scale. Citrus will give fruit juice, animal feeds, wines, baby
food, essence oil etc. With Soya beans the state will get cereal and barley
products, margarines and oil etc. Plantain supplies plantain flour,
chips/crisps and plantain ball.
Our farmers shall receive technical assistance from experts on how to
improve their farming techniques. My administration will establish
Produce purchasing board akin to what operated in the Action Group
days. Farmers will be protected from all forms of exploitation. Large
scale farmers will be encouraged by the government. The government
will partner with banks which are ready for real business to guarantee
loan facilities extended to genuine farmers with verifiable claims.
I promise to lay the foundation for rejuvenation of agriculture in the real
sense. Our state has no reason running cap in hand begging for
allocations of even several years ahead of the constitutionally guaranteed
term to service greed. It is an insult to the memory of the hard-working
people of the state, indeed our ancestors who laboured strenuously to
bring prosperity to our land, for anyone to collect huge hand-outs from
Abuja and embark on a voyage of discovery, executing state policies
whimsically and expecting applause for embracing the philosophy of
waste and thievery.
Land Reforms
My administration will ensure orderly spatial development. The
emergence of reserved slums in the major towns of our state will be
halted. Government will ensure that areas designated for industry and
agriculture are not appropriated for other purposes. Our residential
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quarters must be accessible and conducive to peaceful existence.
Designated commercial centres will be developed and maintained. I
intend to engage the services of experts in Geographic science to advise
on how to manage our environment for efficiency and improved
productivity.
KNOWLEDGE
Qualitative Education
The state of education in the country today should ordinarily excite
disquiet. Our state which used to be a reference point in the past has also
slipped, regrettably, into the league of educationally disadvantaged states.
This is tragic indeed. The State, under our administration, will make
education free and compulsory at primary and secondary school levels.
Employment and periodic training of qualified teachers will also be our
priority. Our public schools will be restored to their former glory. No
section of our state will be discriminated against through government
policies. All existing public schools shall feel the positive impact of
governance.
Our Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education will receive
close attention from my administration. The problem of under-funding
will be addressed. Of utmost significance to me shall be the issue of
curriculum review by our institutions to meet the challenges of the 21st
century. We must all work towards reversing the unfortunate trend which
has continually ensured that not only are our graduates not employed,
most of them are also not employable. Education at all tiers shall aim to
train students to become better citizens. Graduates of our higher
institutions will possess three key qualities upon graduation; critical
thinking, initiative and effective communication skills.
Other centres of learning such as school of nursing, vocational schools
among others shall be adequately funded and equipped to meet the
demands of development.
Information Technology shall form another plank upon which the
administration will base development. Our government shall invest in
ICT and our schools and institutions of higher learning stand to derive
immense benefits from the acquisition of IT knowledge.
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Economy
The state will initiate policies that will encourage less dependence on
revenue allocation from the centre progressively. It is ironic that our state
which contributed immensely to the economic growth of the defunct
Western Region is almost helpless without the hand-outs from the Federal
Government. My administration hopes to look critically into the
following areas with a view to diversifying the economy:
Tourism will be developed as an alternative source of revenue in the
state. Our tourist sites in Aiyetoro Coastal Zone, Idanre mythical and
historical hills, Ebomi Lake held religious awe by the people of Ipesi-
Akoko, the mythical Igbo Olodumare in Oke-Igbo and other sites will be
developed for the visits of local and international tourists. Other
monuments of imperishable significance will be preserved and protected
for the state. Our efforts will provide jobs, create legitimate avenues for
trade and provide revenue for the state.
Our natural resources will be exploited for the benefit of the people of the
state. Our state has no business with poverty. There is limestone, shale,
gypsum, silica sand, bitumen among others. The rural areas will feel the
direct impact of governance. To achieve this end the government, under
my leadership, will be committed to creating enabling enviroment for the
establishment of the following:
Coastal and Inland Fish Farming
Red Brick Manufacturing Plant at Okitipupa
Ofada Rice Mill at Alade in Idanre and along rivers floodplains
Glass and Silica Sand Factories at Akure
Stone Quarries in Akoko
Exploration and Development of Solid Mineral Resources such as;
1. Clay in Lamu in Akure LGA, and Shogbon in Okitipupa LGA;
2. Iron-ore Akunnu in Akoko N.E;
3. Kaolin in Ifon in Owo LGA
4. Lignite in Ute, Owo LGA;
5. Silica Sand in Igbokoda;
6. Tar Sand in Foriku and Ode Aye etc.
There is no point restating the fact that our industries have either folded
up or are operating far below capacity level. Political office holders play
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unprofitable games with issues of development. I will provide leadership
that will free our people from this unfortunate hand-out mentality, a
situation which has reduced professionals to miserable rent collectors,
contractors and even pimps. Our people have the capacity to be great
again. We ranked among the best in the past. We have no business being
poor.
Transportation of goods and services will be improved to meet the
realities of an aspiring modern economy. Our waterways will be utilised
to reduce the traffic and its attendant risk on the badly maintained
Highways. It will be possible for anyone who intends to travel to Lagos
or Ogun States from Ondo State to do so with minimal stress. In addition
to this, our administration will encourage interested investors from the
private sector to partner with members of the public to promote transport
companies. The government will actively encourage this venture to ease
the burden of transportation.
Our women, market women, professionals, artisans and petty traders shall
be encouraged and actively supported to form cooperative societies.
Micro finance facilities will be readily available to support those who are
genuinely interested in adding economic value to our efforts in our quest
for the development of the state.
In addition, the government hopes to join the rest of the region in
restoring the lost glory. Rail lines linking the states in the region will
serve as significant stimulus to the aspiration for economic integration.
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TECHNOLOGY
Our administration shall establish a TECHY VILLAGE in the three
Senatorial districts of the state in a public-private partnership
arrangement. The taking off of these villages will be of immense
assistance to our artisans. In addition to the acquisition of new skills, they
will be able to update their knowledge in their chosen vocation. The
government on its own part will encourage these artisans by making them
participate in government projects. Our administration will discourage the
practice which has reduced our people to miserable vendors of
necessaries for the patronage of technicians imported to do what the
people themselves are capable of doing, if given the chance. Our people
will be engaged as part of our administration’s strategy of empowering
the masses.
Different vocations will be accommodated in this all-embracing attempt
to free our people from poverty imposed by directionless government.
Major public works will be executed by qualified companies, no doubt.
Ancillary inputs must come from the local populace. Our people shall be
trained for the purpose of development. They will be carried along in
realising our vision and mission of laying the foundation for a selfsustaining
environment.
Artisans will be encouraged to take some time off their trades to be able
to update their skills and they will still be able to generate income. No
segment of the society will be neglected. The immediate effect of this
policy will be easily discernible in the progressive decline in the influx of
people from the rural areas to Akure, Ondo, Owo, Ikare and other urban
centres in search of ever elusive opportunities.
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Environment/Infrastructure Management
Our administration will take the issue of the environment very seriously.
Our roads, hospitals, drainages, markets and other public utilities shall be
fixed and managed to derive maximum benefits. The local governments
will be encouraged to partner with the state in this regard.
Energy
Any aspiration towards technological development will remain a mirage
in the main if the challenge posed by inadequate supply of energy
persists. No state can run a productive economy on generator. My
administration will enter into partnership with interested and serious
private businessmen in the energy sector. We shall strive to generate
electricity in addition to the little supplied through the national grid. This
will serve as a tremendous boost to the near-moribund industries in the
state.
Health Care Delivery
Primary health care delivery has been a major challenge in the state. It is
not enough for government to build health centres in the rural areas
without adequate personnel, equipment and drugs. We shall ensure that
health officers are engaged to monitor our facilities and insist on the best
hygiene practices which will curb the spread of preventable diseases. We
shall invest heavily in the health sector. The difference in our approach,
however, will be that the people shall have real access to medi-care.
Water Resources
It is highly regrettable that there is no city in Ondo State today, almost 37
years after its creaion, where water runs from the tap. It is also
disgraceful that a government that receives a huge sum as monthly
allocation has been unable or unwilling to provide water for the people to
drink. Is it not ironic that our state, part of which is situated on the coastal
plains, lacks water for human consumption? Of what benefit is the
construction of a fountain when no living abode has water? It is a mark of
lack of depth on the path of the “caring” government to place much
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premium on beautification project which has no direct relevance to the
welfare of the people at a great cost.
We shall harness water resources in the state to provide potable water for
domestic and industrial use.
Road Consrtuction
The current administration is embarking on some road construction
limited to few urban arears, no doubt. The issue in question, amongst
others, borders on the cost of the work being done at present. Our
administration will halt the practice which allows contractors to act
unethically while dealing with state resources. We shall embark on the
construction of more roads both in the urban and rual areas of the state.
Security
One of the major issues which threaten the peaceful co-existence in the
country today is security. The government at the centre has been so lax in
this regard. The state government appears to be too busy with contractors
and other jobbers to consider this issue as important. The warped idea of
federalism practised by us emasculates the so called Chief Security
Officer who is the Governor. My administration will put in place an
effective community policing. Above all, the greatest security in the state
will be found in the quality of attention given to the welfare of the people.
Our youths will be employed to secure the state. They will complement
the efforts of the police and other security agencies.
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CONCLUSION
The starting point for good governance is transparency, accountability of
leadership to the people and judicious use of resources for meaningful
impact and development.
I shall endeavour to meet the people of the state periodically to render an
account of my stewardship and have a direct feedback from them.
Indigenes and citizens alike will be free to ask any question from
government functionaries. The government in turn will use the medium to
explain its policies and gauge their impact of their implementation on the
citizenry.
I bring myself forward to seek the mandate of the good people of Ondo
State imbued with confidence that I possess deep understanding of the
crucial socio-economic issues which must be resolved for the progress of
the state. I am more than convinced that given my experiences of
administrative processes, my training as an attorney coupled with an
unbroken stretch of practice for almost three and a half decades and my
passionate bid to ensure that our beloved state is free from directionless
and dishonest government, I stand out among other eminent indigenes of
the state to bring about the much desired change.
I choose ACN political platform which represents restoration of hope for
the masses. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, is in Lagos holding aloft the
banner of quintessential performance. Adams Oshiomole has exposed
the lie in the seeming impossibility of making the people feel the impact
of governance in Edo State. Rauf Aregbesola is busy demystifying the
grandiose charade put in place to loot the resources of the good people of
Osun State. This ascetic has proved to those who doubted the possibility
of managing the scarce resources of a provincial enclave with daunting
challenges that governance can only be meaningful if those in
government order their priorities right.
Kayode Fayemi is bringing to bear on governance in Ekiti State his
cerebral competence. There are flashes of inspiration in the fountain of
knowledge. Abiola Ajimobi is poised to clean the augean stable of
ineptitude and corruption in the Pacesetter State. The people of Oyo
State now have hope for a better tomorrow Ibikunle Amosun is making
frantic efforts to turn around the gateway state after the activities of the
locusts. The expectations of the people of Ogun State are very high. This
chartered accountant is busy taking stocks of the level of malfeasance. He
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has left no one in doubt as to his intention to make things work in the
state.
Above all, the ACN is the only political party in the country which has
provided the alternative platform for the people of the country. The south
west is determined to free itself from the debilitating effects of
directionless government. Our people in Ondo State are poised to join
their kinsmen in other states in the region for the emancipation of the
downtrodden masses.
The leaders of our party are notable individuals with enviable pedigree.
They have provided veritable alternative to the behemoth which is
resolute on keeping our people down as miserable underlings.
In this regard, an especial mention must be made of the efforts of
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the party. The political
elites in the country are still coming to terms with the wizardry of this
great leader whose activities continue to pose threat to those who hold the
people by the jugular. Chief Bisi Akande, a former Governor of Osun
State and Chairman of the party, whose antecedents are a constant
embarrassment to the prodigal, has remained a bulwark of resistance to
bad governance and irresponsible behaviour. Other party stalwarts are
also worthy of mention. When the political history of this country is
written the names of all these patriots will be etched in gold.
I present myself for service as a humble indigene of this state. My
aspiration is not borne out of desperation to grab executive power for self
aggrandizement. I have practised law for well above three decades and
can only thank God for his mercies. I am convinced that I can make the
difference in the fortune of the state. I have the necessary experience and
contact to make things work in our state for the benefit of the people.
I promise that if elected to carry the banner of our great party in the
next election, I shall abide by the precepts of the party. Together we
shall strive to salvage the seemingly hopeless situation.
My sleeves are rolled up to hit the ground running.
I am ready to work. Are you ready?
LET’S GO
. . . its time for service. No more labour loss.
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Bi ise o ba peni, a ki pese
Mo se tan lati sise. Se eyin na setan?
Eje ka bere
… asiko ise ya. A o ni sise ase danu.
I count on your support to realise this ambition.
OLUWAROTIMI O. AKEREDOLU, ESQ, SAN.

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THE CREED FOR ACTION
OLUWAROTIMI O. AKEREDOLU ESQ. SAN
ONDO STATE GOVERNORSHIP CAMPAIGN
DECLARATION
@
AKURE
11TH APRIL 2012
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THE CREED FOR ACTION
INTRODUCTION
There is bound to be some unanimity in the opinions expressed on what
appears as progressive degeneration in Ondo State. There is virtually no
aspect of our lives that has not been affected, adversely, by a combination
of factors. The ascendance to position of authority by clueless elements in
all tiers of government is directly responsible for the parlous state of our
infrastructure. The situation at present is all the more deplorable owing to
the relentless pillage of our commonwealth by successive governments.
The state bleeds profusely at present from the devious designs of
functionaries who embark on meaningless projects ostensibly to defraud.
There has been a preponderance of over-bloated contracts for white
elephant projects, a direct indication of a regrettable mindset predisposed
to looting.
There have been attempts made to elevate cheap propaganda to state art;
suborned tabloids fall over themselves to sing the praises of a
directionless political leadership. Nebulous civil society organisations
promoted by the government of the day shower encomiums on the
Governor endlessly. It has taken outsiders to recognise the imaginary
achievements of the current government. The reality on ground is the
day-to-day song and dance which is dubbed governance. Sycophancy is
promoted and genuine criticisms offered to government attract caustic
reactions. The recent revelation on the mindless looting of scarce
resources in the state supports our position that the art of governance
must not be left in the hands of those whose sole purpose in government
is crude acquisition of material wealth.
I make a solemn pledge to reverse this unfortunate trend. Our great party,
Action Congress of Nigeria, as my choice of political platform to realise
this dream, is not fortuitous. I have been an ardent follower of Chief
Obafemi Awolowo’s political philosophy right from my secondary school
days. The Action Group was a party whose achievements remain
unrivalled in the annals of politics in Nigeria. I grew up in Owo and
witnessed the progressive politics of the nascent party at a close distance.
Pa Michael Adekunle Ajasin was an inspiration to most of us in those
days. The Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, rose from the ashes of the AG
with four cardinal programmes during the Second Republic. It was the
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only party with a clear vision on how to solve the socio-economic
problems facing the country.
The Alliance for Democracy offered a redemptive message to the people
of the South West at the beginning of the current democratic experience
in 1999. Action Congress emerged to salvage the west from the
rampaging locusts, exponents of the dubious gospel of “mainstream”
politics. The unadulterated message of the new party provided the much
needed balm for the bruised psyche of our people. Other people who
believe in this lofty dream soon joined the Action Congress (AC) to form
a larger party now known as Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), which is
arguably the most formidable opposition party in the country today.
I enter politics with a mark of integrity and uncommon dedication to the
service of the people. My most recent assignment as the President of the
Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, at a time when the country’s political
situation was precarious places me at a vantage position to lead the state
at this critical moment. I make bold to say that I have remained rooted to
the state of my birth despite my sojourn in another state where I practise
my profession. My stint in government as the Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice in the state made it possible for me to
understand the intricacies of governance. I know the challenges faced by
our people and I dare say that most of the socio-economic problems of
the state are a direct result of lack of vision on the part of many of the
successive governments in our State, most especially in recent times.
I have practised law for the better part of my adult life and make bold to
assert that my unceasing interactions with the Judiciary, Legislative and
Legal Institutions place me in a better stead to ensure equity, justice, fairplay,
real investments and physical development of the state in
accordance with the law. I shall embark on developmental programmes
making the people the central focus. At no time will my administration
trample on the rights of the citizens in a bid to mask massive looting and
diversion of the state’s resources. I shall embark on policies of
transformation which generations yet unborn will consider imperishable.
I shall arrest the drift to bankruptcy if I am given the opportunity to serve
the state. The practice which limits the art of governance to the allocation
of revenue from the centre without any ingenious means of creating
wealth will be a thing of the past. I shall strive to establish a synergy
between the private and the public sectors. Civil servants will be
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encouraged to perform the roles for which their offices were established
in the first instance. The economic potentials of the state will be fully
realised. The resources of the state shall be deployed to enhance the
quality of existence of the citizenry.
The welfare of our people shall constitute the primary purpose of
governance. Government, under my leadership, shall maintain a balanced
economic growth. We will be responsible and responsive to the people.
Nature has endowed our state bountifully; I shall avail myself of Ondo
State’s unique qualities and shall utilise capital stocks to improve the lot
of our people. Since development is about people, it will be a matter of
priority for our government to harness the natural, human and cultural
capitals. The near-absolute dependence on oil revenue is unhealthy for a
state whose contribution to the economic development of the old Western
Region was phenomenal. The mere lip service always paid to the crucial
issue of development by successive governments and the deceptive
window dressing of the current administration is antithetical to real
growth.
Our natural capitals, both renewable and non-renewable resources, shall
be managed properly. We shall ensure that the rate of harvest does not
exceed the rate of generation, that is, sustainable yield. In a similar vein,
waste generation and disposal will be handled in a manner that will
ensure that the assimilative capacity of the environment is not overstretched
(sustainable waste disposal). For non-renewable resources, the
rates of waste generation from projects shall not exceed the assimilative
capacity of the environment. The depletion rates should require
comparable development of renewable substitute for those non-renewable
resources such as hydro-carbon (bitumen, oil and gas), solid minerals and
others.
I will strive strenuously to develop the infrastructural base of the state to
an extent that will attract investments. The unique location of our state in
the country will bring genuine businessmen with long term interest in
investing in industries thereby enhancing commercial activities. Tourism
shall become a veritable source of revenue for our state. Our ancient
cities such as Owo, Idanre, Ondo, Oke-Igbo, Okitipupa, Ikare, Akure,
among others, shall witness unprecedented transformation in the area of
tourism. Construction and maintenance of roads shall be a priority in my
administration.
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Our state used to occupy a pride of place in the country as one of the
foremost localities with highly educated indigenes. The rich cultural
heritage of our various communities is legendary. Not a few patriotic
indigenes now wonder how we came to this sorry pass. Can any honest
person join the current bandwagon of praise singers when all there is to
governance is the performance of the absurd? My administration, if
elected, will endeavour to do more than the current showbiz in the
educational sector. Public schools will compete favourably with the best
private schools in the state.
We shall embark on aggressive and massive agricultural and maritime
projects with a view to creating jobs. We will promote cottage industries
which will serve as catalysts to revamp economic activities in the rural
areas. The government will lay a very solid foundation for the agricultural
sector. Exportation of cash crops and semi-finished products will be
achieved to stimulate the economic space and bring real prosperity to
farmers as against cash hand-outs, a practice designed to defraud the
state. Training of farmers in modern farming technology will attract
prime attention from my administration.
Health care delivery system will be developed to an acceptable
international standard which the state can afford to render, comparable to
what obtains in advanced countries if our resources are properly
managed. We will develop primary health care delivery system to the
extent that infant and maternal mortality rates will be drastically reduced.
Our judiciary will be overhauled to enhance quick dispensation of justice.
We will restore hope in the judicial arm of government by ensuring its
independence in the true sence and providing the necessary infrastructural
support. As an active practitioner, I possess sufficient grasp of the needs
of the judiciary. These challenges will be confronted headlong as far as
the extant law permits. I started the reforms when I served as the Attorney
General and Commissioner for Justice of the state. I have since
encountered a bigger picture of the systemic failure in the judiciary as a
very active Bar man and, more importantly, as a former President of the
NBA. My modest achievements are eloquent testimonies to my
determination to make things work in our state.
Our state has been in the news lately due to the aggressive self-promotion
of the government, a thing to expect in the year of election. We were also
made to know that certain elements have been feeding fat on the scarce
resources of the state through nebulous projects and over bloated
contracts. It is sad indeed to know that the real reason why the
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functionaries of the government have thrown themselves into a state of
frenzy in their so called quest for developmental projects is far from their
belief in altruism. Not only will we prevent such fiscal recklessness and
brazen abuse of power, we will be determined to sanction anyone who
tinkers with the resources of the state.
I shall be launching a “State Development Plan” which will act as a guide
towards the realisation of the afore-stated objectives. I intend to predicate
my Vision, based on democratic ideals, on a Five Point Agenda. My
Vision is to make Ondo State the economic, industrial and
technology-driven commercial hub of the South West geo-political
zone where quality of life is sustained in both the rural enclaves and
urban centres based on the principles of regional competitiveness and
integration. The cardinal principles upon which my administration shall
set sail are listed below:
1. Agriculture
2. Knowledge
3. Entrepreneurship
4. Technology
5. Infrastructure
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AGRICULTURE
Food Security
The government under my leadership will ensure that there is a marked
departure from the current practice wherein farmers are dumped and
forgotten in obscure centres in the rural areas and are brought out
periodically for photo sessions to score cheap political points. We shall
take the issue of farm settlements as a top priority. It is scandalous that an
issue as basic as food is becoming a major challenge in a state which
paraded wealthy farmers in the past. Only experts who are ready to assist
in solving problems will be engaged at any level.
The knowledge that this state can serve as the food basket of the region,
against the backdrop of the heart-corroding over-dependence on oil
revenue, is scandalous, to state the least. There is no part of the state that
is not economically viable. It takes a visionary leadership to recognise the
significance of agriculture in the economy of the state. Cash crops such as
cocoa, rubber, oil palm, coffee, timber, cow pea, cassava, yam, kolanut,
maize, Soya beans, citrus, plantain etc can be cultivated on an industrial
scale in the state.
Cocoa is cultivable in all parts of the state. It is sad indeed that this
erstwhile money spinner plays no noticeable role in the so called
internally generated revenue in the state today. What justification can
there be for the relegation of this cash crop to subsistence existence? Is
anyone thinking of what the resuscitation of the cultivation of this cash
crop will do to the moribund industries in the state? My administration
will encourage the establishment of agro-allied industries which have the
capacity to produce cocoa butter, cocoa powder, cocoa liquor and
beverages. Any private concern which displays sufficient commitment
towards development along the line of production will be most welcome.
Rubber is found in Araromi Obu and the Forest Belt of the state in
commercial quantity. How great will it be if the industries rushing to
Ghana are convinced to return to Ondo State for the purpose of
manufacturing tyre for both local consumption and export?
Oil Palm is cultivable in all parts of the state. Malaysia came to the
country to pick palm kernel seedlings in 1962. That country is the chief
exporter of palm oil products in the world today. My administration will
revive the cultivation of oil palm plantations in the state.
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Coffee can be cultivated in the Forest Zones. Beverages and stimulants
can be produced from this crop.
Timber abounds in the Forest zones and a few other areas in the state.
Planks, logs, panels will be available for both local use and export. Cow
pea, yam and cassava can be cultivated in almost every part of the state.
Grits, flour, adhesives, starch, feeds, cassava chips, livestock, yeast and
mosquito expellers are direct derivatives of these crops. Kolanut can
flourish in Oke igbo, Ondo, Ijare, Ore, and generally in Forest zone.
Maize is a staple crop in most parts of the western region. From this we
can derive corn flour, grit and maize for domestic and industrial use.
The cultivation of Soya beans, citrus and plantain may be widespread in
that virtually all parts of our state can engage in their farming even on an
industrial scale. Citrus will give fruit juice, animal feeds, wines, baby
food, essence oil etc. With Soya beans the state will get cereal and barley
products, margarines and oil etc. Plantain supplies plantain flour,
chips/crisps and plantain ball.
Our farmers shall receive technical assistance from experts on how to
improve their farming techniques. My administration will establish
Produce purchasing board akin to what operated in the Action Group
days. Farmers will be protected from all forms of exploitation. Large
scale farmers will be encouraged by the government. The government
will partner with banks which are ready for real business to guarantee
loan facilities extended to genuine farmers with verifiable claims.
I promise to lay the foundation for rejuvenation of agriculture in the real
sense. Our state has no reason running cap in hand begging for
allocations of even several years ahead of the constitutionally guaranteed
term to service greed. It is an insult to the memory of the hard-working
people of the state, indeed our ancestors who laboured strenuously to
bring prosperity to our land, for anyone to collect huge hand-outs from
Abuja and embark on a voyage of discovery, executing state policies
whimsically and expecting applause for embracing the philosophy of
waste and thievery.
Land Reforms
My administration will ensure orderly spatial development. The
emergence of reserved slums in the major towns of our state will be
halted. Government will ensure that areas designated for industry and
agriculture are not appropriated for other purposes. Our residential
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quarters must be accessible and conducive to peaceful existence.
Designated commercial centres will be developed and maintained. I
intend to engage the services of experts in Geographic science to advise
on how to manage our environment for efficiency and improved
productivity.
KNOWLEDGE
Qualitative Education
The state of education in the country today should ordinarily excite
disquiet. Our state which used to be a reference point in the past has also
slipped, regrettably, into the league of educationally disadvantaged states.
This is tragic indeed. The State, under our administration, will make
education free and compulsory at primary and secondary school levels.
Employment and periodic training of qualified teachers will also be our
priority. Our public schools will be restored to their former glory. No
section of our state will be discriminated against through government
policies. All existing public schools shall feel the positive impact of
governance.
Our Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education will receive
close attention from my administration. The problem of under-funding
will be addressed. Of utmost significance to me shall be the issue of
curriculum review by our institutions to meet the challenges of the 21st
century. We must all work towards reversing the unfortunate trend which
has continually ensured that not only are our graduates not employed,
most of them are also not employable. Education at all tiers shall aim to
train students to become better citizens. Graduates of our higher
institutions will possess three key qualities upon graduation; critical
thinking, initiative and effective communication skills.
Other centres of learning such as school of nursing, vocational schools
among others shall be adequately funded and equipped to meet the
demands of development.
Information Technology shall form another plank upon which the
administration will base development. Our government shall invest in
ICT and our schools and institutions of higher learning stand to derive
immense benefits from the acquisition of IT knowledge.
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Economy
The state will initiate policies that will encourage less dependence on
revenue allocation from the centre progressively. It is ironic that our state
which contributed immensely to the economic growth of the defunct
Western Region is almost helpless without the hand-outs from the Federal
Government. My administration hopes to look critically into the
following areas with a view to diversifying the economy:
Tourism will be developed as an alternative source of revenue in the
state. Our tourist sites in Aiyetoro Coastal Zone, Idanre mythical and
historical hills, Ebomi Lake held religious awe by the people of Ipesi-
Akoko, the mythical Igbo Olodumare in Oke-Igbo and other sites will be
developed for the visits of local and international tourists. Other
monuments of imperishable significance will be preserved and protected
for the state. Our efforts will provide jobs, create legitimate avenues for
trade and provide revenue for the state.
Our natural resources will be exploited for the benefit of the people of the
state. Our state has no business with poverty. There is limestone, shale,
gypsum, silica sand, bitumen among others. The rural areas will feel the
direct impact of governance. To achieve this end the government, under
my leadership, will be committed to creating enabling enviroment for the
establishment of the following:
• Coastal and Inland Fish Farming
• Red Brick Manufacturing Plant at Okitipupa
• Ofada Rice Mill at Alade in Idanre and along rivers floodplains
• Glass and Silica Sand Factories at Akure
• Stone Quarries in Akoko
• Exploration and Development of Solid Mineral Resources such as;
1. Clay in Lamu in Akure LGA, and Shogbon in Okitipupa LGA;
2. Iron-ore Akunnu in Akoko N.E;
3. Kaolin in Ifon in Owo LGA
4. Lignite in Ute, Owo LGA;
5. Silica Sand in Igbokoda;
6. Tar Sand in Foriku and Ode Aye etc.
There is no point restating the fact that our industries have either folded
up or are operating far below capacity level. Political office holders play
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unprofitable games with issues of development. I will provide leadership
that will free our people from this unfortunate hand-out mentality, a
situation which has reduced professionals to miserable rent collectors,
contractors and even pimps. Our people have the capacity to be great
again. We ranked among the best in the past. We have no business being
poor.
Transportation of goods and services will be improved to meet the
realities of an aspiring modern economy. Our waterways will be utilised
to reduce the traffic and its attendant risk on the badly maintained
Highways. It will be possible for anyone who intends to travel to Lagos
or Ogun States from Ondo State to do so with minimal stress. In addition
to this, our administration will encourage interested investors from the
private sector to partner with members of the public to promote transport
companies. The government will actively encourage this venture to ease
the burden of transportation.
Our women, market women, professionals, artisans and petty traders shall
be encouraged and actively supported to form cooperative societies.
Micro finance facilities will be readily available to support those who are
genuinely interested in adding economic value to our efforts in our quest
for the development of the state.
In addition, the government hopes to join the rest of the region in
restoring the lost glory. Rail lines linking the states in the region will
serve as significant stimulus to the aspiration for economic integration.
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TECHNOLOGY
Our administration shall establish a TECHY VILLAGE in the three
Senatorial districts of the state in a public-private partnership
arrangement. The taking off of these villages will be of immense
assistance to our artisans. In addition to the acquisition of new skills, they
will be able to update their knowledge in their chosen vocation. The
government on its own part will encourage these artisans by making them
participate in government projects. Our administration will discourage the
practice which has reduced our people to miserable vendors of
necessaries for the patronage of technicians imported to do what the
people themselves are capable of doing, if given the chance. Our people
will be engaged as part of our administration’s strategy of empowering
the masses.
Different vocations will be accommodated in this all-embracing attempt
to free our people from poverty imposed by directionless government.
Major public works will be executed by qualified companies, no doubt.
Ancillary inputs must come from the local populace. Our people shall be
trained for the purpose of development. They will be carried along in
realising our vision and mission of laying the foundation for a selfsustaining
environment.
Artisans will be encouraged to take some time off their trades to be able
to update their skills and they will still be able to generate income. No
segment of the society will be neglected. The immediate effect of this
policy will be easily discernible in the progressive decline in the influx of
people from the rural areas to Akure, Ondo, Owo, Ikare and other urban
centres in search of ever elusive opportunities.
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Environment/Infrastructure Management
Our administration will take the issue of the environment very seriously.
Our roads, hospitals, drainages, markets and other public utilities shall be
fixed and managed to derive maximum benefits. The local governments
will be encouraged to partner with the state in this regard.
Energy
Any aspiration towards technological development will remain a mirage
in the main if the challenge posed by inadequate supply of energy
persists. No state can run a productive economy on generator. My
administration will enter into partnership with interested and serious
private businessmen in the energy sector. We shall strive to generate
electricity in addition to the little supplied through the national grid. This
will serve as a tremendous boost to the near-moribund industries in the
state.
Health Care Delivery
Primary health care delivery has been a major challenge in the state. It is
not enough for government to build health centres in the rural areas
without adequate personnel, equipment and drugs. We shall ensure that
health officers are engaged to monitor our facilities and insist on the best
hygiene practices which will curb the spread of preventable diseases. We
shall invest heavily in the health sector. The difference in our approach,
however, will be that the people shall have real access to medi-care.
Water Resources
It is highly regrettable that there is no city in Ondo State today, almost 37
years after its creaion, where water runs from the tap. It is also
disgraceful that a government that receives a huge sum as monthly
allocation has been unable or unwilling to provide water for the people to
drink. Is it not ironic that our state, part of which is situated on the coastal
plains, lacks water for human consumption? Of what benefit is the
construction of a fountain when no living abode has water? It is a mark of
lack of depth on the path of the “caring” government to place much
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premium on beautification project which has no direct relevance to the
welfare of the people at a great cost.
We shall harness water resources in the state to provide potable water for
domestic and industrial use.
Road Consrtuction
The current administration is embarking on some road construction
limited to few urban arears, no doubt. The issue in question, amongst
others, borders on the cost of the work being done at present. Our
administration will halt the practice which allows contractors to act
unethically while dealing with state resources. We shall embark on the
construction of more roads both in the urban and rual areas of the state.
Security
One of the major issues which threaten the peaceful co-existence in the
country today is security. The government at the centre has been so lax in
this regard. The state government appears to be too busy with contractors
and other jobbers to consider this issue as important. The warped idea of
federalism practised by us emasculates the so called Chief Security
Officer who is the Governor. My administration will put in place an
effective community policing. Above all, the greatest security in the state
will be found in the quality of attention given to the welfare of the people.
Our youths will be employed to secure the state. They will complement
the efforts of the police and other security agencies.
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CONCLUSION
The starting point for good governance is transparency, accountability of
leadership to the people and judicious use of resources for meaningful
impact and development.
I shall endeavour to meet the people of the state periodically to render an
account of my stewardship and have a direct feedback from them.
Indigenes and citizens alike will be free to ask any question from
government functionaries. The government in turn will use the medium to
explain its policies and gauge their impact of their implementation on the
citizenry.
I bring myself forward to seek the mandate of the good people of Ondo
State imbued with confidence that I possess deep understanding of the
crucial socio-economic issues which must be resolved for the progress of
the state. I am more than convinced that given my experiences of
administrative processes, my training as an attorney coupled with an
unbroken stretch of practice for almost three and a half decades and my
passionate bid to ensure that our beloved state is free from directionless
and dishonest government, I stand out among other eminent indigenes of
the state to bring about the much desired change.
I choose ACN political platform which represents restoration of hope for
the masses. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, is in Lagos holding aloft the
banner of quintessential performance. Adams Oshiomole has exposed
the lie in the seeming impossibility of making the people feel the impact
of governance in Edo State. Rauf Aregbesola is busy demystifying the
grandiose charade put in place to loot the resources of the good people of
Osun State. This ascetic has proved to those who doubted the possibility
of managing the scarce resources of a provincial enclave with daunting
challenges that governance can only be meaningful if those in
government order their priorities right.
Kayode Fayemi is bringing to bear on governance in Ekiti State his
cerebral competence. There are flashes of inspiration in the fountain of
knowledge. Abiola Ajimobi is poised to clean the augean stable of
ineptitude and corruption in the Pacesetter State. The people of Oyo
State now have hope for a better tomorrow Ibikunle Amosun is making
frantic efforts to turn around the gateway state after the activities of the
locusts. The expectations of the people of Ogun State are very high. This
chartered accountant is busy taking stocks of the level of malfeasance. He
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has left no one in doubt as to his intention to make things work in the
state.
Above all, the ACN is the only political party in the country which has
provided the alternative platform for the people of the country. The south
west is determined to free itself from the debilitating effects of
directionless government. Our people in Ondo State are poised to join
their kinsmen in other states in the region for the emancipation of the
downtrodden masses.
The leaders of our party are notable individuals with enviable pedigree.
They have provided veritable alternative to the behemoth which is
resolute on keeping our people down as miserable underlings.
In this regard, an especial mention must be made of the efforts of
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the party. The political
elites in the country are still coming to terms with the wizardry of this
great leader whose activities continue to pose threat to those who hold the
people by the jugular. Chief Bisi Akande, a former Governor of Osun
State and Chairman of the party, whose antecedents are a constant
embarrassment to the prodigal, has remained a bulwark of resistance to
bad governance and irresponsible behaviour. Other party stalwarts are
also worthy of mention. When the political history of this country is
written the names of all these patriots will be etched in gold.
I present myself for service as a humble indigene of this state. My
aspiration is not borne out of desperation to grab executive power for self
aggrandizement. I have practised law for well above three decades and
can only thank God for his mercies. I am convinced that I can make the
difference in the fortune of the state. I have the necessary experience and
contact to make things work in our state for the benefit of the people.
I promise that if elected to carry the banner of our great party in the
next election, I shall abide by the precepts of the party. Together we
shall strive to salvage the seemingly hopeless situation.
My sleeves are rolled up to hit the ground running.
I am ready to work. Are you ready?
LET’S GO
. . . its time for service. No more labour loss.
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Bi ise o ba peni, a ki pese
Mo se tan lati sise. Se eyin na setan?
Eje ka bere
… asiko ise ya. A o ni sise ase danu.
I count on your support to realise this ambition.
OLUWAROTIMI O. AKEREDOLU, ESQ, SAN.

Whatever they say about Jaganba of Africa is sentiment and anger. The only state functioning in Nigeria today is Lagos, because of the legacy laid by Asiwaju there is no one in Nigeria that can match Tinubu’s achievement all of you that criticise him are mediocrities .Ondo state for example has potential to compete with Lagos in term of infrastructure and economy development. Mimiko has not use the so much wealth and potentials to attract any investor to the state. No single foreign direct investment and public private partnership, all we can see is inducing individual and group with cash to speak on his behalf over 400 million spent on declaration day economic wise this money can create job for 10,000 people not to talk of more than 500billion subvention excluding loan and internal generated revenue.

No single industries function in the state. The state that has the second largest deposit of bitumen in the world Iroko is not expose to attract investor to tap huge resource available in the state .

Ondo state has the largest level of unemployment in Nigeria. Akeredolu is on rescue mission. Mimiko is doing all these within is exposure and capacity not capable of delivery 21st century dividend of democracy. AKETI has travelled far and wide and has all it takes to transform the state within a short period of timeif given opportunity.

Whatever they say about Jaganba of Africa is sentiment and anger. The only state functioning in Nigeria today is Lagos, because of the legacy laid by Asiwaju there is no one in Nigeria that can match Tinubu’s achievement all of you that criticise him are mediocrities .Ondo state for example has potential to compete with Lagos in term of infrastructure and economy development. Mimiko has not use the so much wealth and potentials to attract any investor to the state. No single foreign direct investment and public private partnership, all we can see is inducing individual and group with cash to speak on his behalf over 400 million spent on declaration day economic wise this money can create job for 10,000 people not to talk of more than 500billion subvention excluding loan and internal generated revenue.

No single industries function in the state. The state that has the second largest deposit of bitumen in the world Iroko is not expose to attract investor to tap huge resource available in the state .

Ondo state has the largest level of unemployment in Nigeria. Akeredolu is on rescue mission. Mimiko is doing all these within is exposure and capacity not capable of delivery 21st century dividend of democracy. AKETI has travelled far and wide and has all it takes to transform the state within a short period of timeif given opportunity.

Whatever they say about Jaganba of Africa is sentiment and anger. The only state functioning in Nigeria today is Lagos, because of the legacy laid by Asiwaju there is no one in Nigeria that can match Tinubu’s achievement all of you that criticise him are mediocrities .Ondo state for example has potential to compete with Lagos in term of infrastructure and economy development. Mimiko has not use the so much wealth and potentials to attract any investor to the state. No single foreign direct investment and public private partnership, all we can see is inducing individual and group with cash to speak on his behalf over 400 million spent on declaration day economic wise this money can create job for 10,000 people not to talk of more than 500billion subvention excluding loan and internal generated revenue.

No single industries function in the state. The state that has the second largest deposit of bitumen in the world Iroko is not expose to attract investor to tap huge resource available in the state .

Ondo state has the largest level of unemployment in Nigeria. Akeredolu is on rescue mission. Mimiko is doing all these within is exposure and capacity not capable of delivery 21st century dividend of democracy. AKETI has travelled far and wide and has all it takes to transform the state within a short period of timeif given opportunity.

Whatever they say about Jaganba of Africa is sentiment and anger. The only state functioning in Nigeria today is Lagos, because of the legacy laid by Asiwaju there is no one in Nigeria that can match Tinubu’s achievement all of you that criticise him are mediocrities .Ondo state for example has potential to compete with Lagos in term of infrastructure and economy development. Mimiko has not use the so much wealth and potentials to attract any investor to the state. No single foreign direct investment and public private partnership, all we can see is inducing individual and group with cash to speak on his behalf over 400 million spent on declaration day economic wise this money can create job for 10,000 people not to talk of more than 500billion subvention excluding loan and internal generated revenue.

No single industries function in the state. The state that has the second largest deposit of bitumen in the world Iroko is not expose to attract investor to tap huge resource available in the state .

Ondo state has the largest level of unemployment in Nigeria. Akeredolu is on rescue mission. Mimiko is doing all these within is exposure and capacity not capable of delivery 21st century dividend of democracy. AKETI has travelled far and wide and has all it takes to transform the state within a short period of timeif given opportunity.

Whatever they say about Jaganba of Africa is sentiment and anger. The only state functioning in Nigeria today is Lagos, because of the legacy laid by Asiwaju there is no one in Nigeria that can match Tinubu’s achievement all of you that criticise him are mediocrities .Ondo state for example has potential to compete with Lagos in term of infrastructure and economy development. Mimiko has not use the so much wealth and potentials to attract any investor to the state. No single foreign direct investment and public private partnership, all we can see is inducing individual and group with cash to speak on his behalf over 400 million spent on declaration day economic wise this money can create job for 10,000 people not to talk of more than 500billion subvention excluding loan and internal generated revenue.

No single industries function in the state. The state that has the second largest deposit of bitumen in the world Iroko is not expose to attract investor to tap huge resource available in the state .

Ondo state has the largest level of unemployment in Nigeria. Akeredolu is on rescue mission. Mimiko is doing all these within is exposure and capacity not capable of delivery 21st century dividend of democracy. AKETI has travelled far and wide and has all it takes to transform the state within a short period of timeif given opportunity.

Whatever they say about Jaganba of Africa is sentiment and anger. The only state functioning in Nigeria today is Lagos, because of the legacy laid by Asiwaju there is no one in Nigeria that can match Tinubu’s achievement all of you that criticise him are mediocrities .Ondo state for example has potential to compete with Lagos in term of infrastructure and economy development. Mimiko has not use the so much wealth and potentials to attract any investor to the state. No single foreign direct investment and public private partnership, all we can see is inducing individual and group with cash to speak on his behalf over 400 million spent on declaration day economic wise this money can create job for 10,000 people not to talk of more than 500billion subvention excluding loan and internal generated revenue.

No single industries function in the state. The state that has the second largest deposit of bitumen in the world Iroko is not expose to attract investor to tap huge resource available in the state .

Ondo state has the largest level of unemployment in Nigeria. Akeredolu is on rescue mission. Mimiko is doing all these within is exposure and capacity not capable of delivery 21st century dividend of democracy. AKETI has travelled far and wide and has all it takes to transform the state within a short period of timeif given opportunity.

Whatever they say about Jaganba of Africa is sentiment and anger. The only state functioning in Nigeria today is Lagos, because of the legacy laid by Asiwaju there is no one in Nigeria that can match Tinubu’s achievement all of you that criticise him are mediocrities .Ondo state for example has potential to compete with Lagos in term of infrastructure and economy development. Mimiko has not use the so much wealth and potentials to attract any investor to the state. No single foreign direct investment and public private partnership, all we can see is inducing individual and group with cash to speak on his behalf over 400 million spent on declaration day economic wise this money can create job for 10,000 people not to talk of more than 500billion subvention excluding loan and internal generated revenue.

No single industries function in the state. The state that has the second largest deposit of bitumen in the world Iroko is not expose to attract investor to tap huge resource available in the state .

Ondo state has the largest level of unemployment in Nigeria. Akeredolu is on rescue mission. Mimiko is doing all these within is exposure and capacity not capable of delivery 21st century dividend of democracy. AKETI has travelled far and wide and has all it takes to transform the state within a short period of timeif given opportunity.

Whatever u say about Jaganba of Africa is sentiment and anger. The only state functioning in Nigeria today is Lagos, because of the legacy laid by Asiwaju there is no one in Nigeria that can match Tinubu’s achievement all of you that criticise him are mediocrities .Ondo state for example has potential to compete with Lagos in term of infrastructure, economy and development Mimiko has not use the so much wealth and potentials to attract any investor to the state. No single foreign direct investment and public private partnership all we can see is inducing individual and group to speak on his behalf.400 million spent on declaration day economic wise can creat job for 10,000 people not to talk of more than 600billion subvention excluding loan and internal generated revenue.
No single industries function in the state. The state that has the second largest deposit of bitumen in the world Iroko is not expose to attract investor to tap huge resource.
Ondo state has the largest employee graduate Akeredolu is on rescue mission. Mimiko is doing all this within is exposure and capacity but Akeredolu has travelled far and wide will transform the state with a short period of time.

Whatever u say about Jaganba of Africa is sentiment and anger. The only state functioning in Nigeria today is Lagos, because of the legacy laid by Asiwaju there is no one in Nigeria that can match Tinubu’s achievement all of you that criticise him are mediocrities .Ondo state for example has potential to compete with Lagos in term of infrastructure, economy and development Mimiko has not use the so much wealth and potentials to attract any investor to the state. No single foreign direct investment and public private partnership all we can see is inducing individual and group to speak on his behalf.400 million spent on declaration day economic wise can creat job for 10,000 people not to talk of more than 600billion subvention excluding loan and internal generated revenue.
No single industries function in the state. The state that has the second largest deposit of bitumen in the world Iroko is not expose to attract investor to tap huge resource.
Ondo state has the largest employee graduate Akeredolu is on rescue mission. Mimiko is doing all this within is exposure and capacity but Akeredolu has travelled far and wide will transform the state with a short period of time.

If u dont understand the way Akeredolu emerged ask me i will tell u.he was the best among all.almost 50% of them has one or two skleton under thier cupboard.i met more than 4 out of 32 aspirant, had it been ACN allowed primaries each will spent more than 20million to induce delegate and possible emergence of the most questionable among them that is not saleable to the party.the money may be drug money,419 and soo on, and the party does't want to allowed this.but adoption of Akeredolu was unanimously agreed by 8o% of the aspirant and signature of each and encourage adoption it was gamble everyone was optimistic of thier choice.infact borofice and agunloye was at the 1st front of the nomination idea.dont be deceived can we call this imposition?