I am convinced that Governor Rauf Aregbesola will win the election in Osun State. Even the PDP members admit that he is a grassroots politician. So, you cannot accuse him of being disconnected or alienated from the people in any sense. In spite of the crisis of relevance that the APC is going through, Aregbesola’s socialist background has influenced his policies and programmes. Those programmes have endeared him to the people. Even the World Bank has taken officials from 12 states to Osun State to learn about job creation in the midst of massive unemployment caused by the neo-colonial capitalist system. Through the school feeding programme, the Aregbesola regime has boosted the rural economy in his state. No doubt, there are limitations in view of the dwindling statutory allocations from the federation account but he has engaged the masses in a pedagogical relationship. In 2011, he made sure that the presidential candidate of his party, the former ACN, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, won the election in Osun State. That was based on ideological commitment of some sort. But that was not the case in the other states in the South-West region. What’s your assessment of Nigeria’s democracy from 1999 till date? For the majority of Nigerians the democratic experiment has been an unmitigated disaster. While President Goodluck Jonathan recently measured our prosperity on the basis of private jets owned by less than 150 people it is better to rely on the evidence of the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics that 113 million Nigerians live on less than $1 a day Culled from THE PUNCH
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 06:33:47 +0000
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