In the thought for more facts to be unravel regarding why the politicians kept silent thus far, despite the avalanche of complaints and discouraging opinions and views from the members of the populace and citizenry on the state of the economy in Nigeria and the effect of the biting hardship, as a result of the recession, we thought it wise to sample opinions and views of the honourables both at the states' house of assembly and national, in order to justify our finding without any bias nor favouritism, since we know we are between two beautiful brides;the leadership and follower-ship.
And next on the spectrum of our adventure is the Honourable Fatai Adeniyi Adesina of the Oyo State House of Assembly who we had a chat with as unwind-ed below:
Sir, it is expected that whenever a government comes through a party into rein of governance; the parties in the opposition must be up and doing , doing what is expected of them to call the party in governance to order through constructive criticism but presently we are not seeing that happening,has the opposition gone to sleep or there is no opposition at all?
When the party in governance is doing the thing expected of them, I think there is no reason to be criticizing unnecessarily, fighting today,shouting tomorrow, we have been away from the politics of the past, if the party in government is doing what is expected we move with them, to impact the well-being of the people but if not; and doing something illegal you will see us standing up to talk against it and don't forget, there are better ways to do that as in 2013 there had not been the report of the account to presenting the state's account then we advised for a substantive accountant -general, we came up to correct that there should be an appointment of substantive accountant -general since auditor-general cannot act for more than six-months. And we have been able to correct that. Government came to appoint school- governing board, that is part of what we expected of them. You know some people don't know what is expected of them, instead of coming to the 'house' to report their interests or complaints, how do they want us to know, or maybe our rules of engagement had not been in term of what people expected, stabbing and fighting one another and don't forget; we are all learned. We have the power of legislation , investigation, oversight-functions and power to correct the governor. People like making sweeping statement, we have opposition.
I quite agreed with you that the legislators are working but in your statement you said something now that you will challenge anything done by the government that is illegal, is the delay of the local government election with the appointment of the care-takers more than three times not illegal?
Don't forget the governor had constituted 'OSIEC',some people are aggrieved on the issue of 'LCDA' and then went to court hence all activities are put in abeyance. Can one go further afterwards, no?! Local governments cannot be put in the hands of the career officers, because they have approval power only so, it warranted they put the care-takers there. Don't forget in my party; Accord Party, we have elected all our candidates to show that Accord Party is ready, Let's take issue wholistically and with totality,don't let's play partisan politics and put sentiment aside.And don't forget those who went to court don't have caretakers,you can go and verify.
Your party had been disturbed by the issue of Rescue team then, as there was no activities to educate, orientate and rub minds together with your party members, was there any reason for that?
Don't forget I had mentioned this in my previous statement . What actually happened was that since the Rescue team issue had been dragged to court then in respect of the convention they organized at Olubadan Stadium juxtapose that of the real Accord members under Chief Rasheed Ladoja there can be no activities since the case was in the court and there was court injunction. It never really affected us , we just wanted to be loyal party men and law abiding party , to the court injunction.
The idea of your party "logo extraordinaire"; Chief Rasheed Ladoja intention to go for Governorship race with some of his men in the party signifying too to run the race for Governorship, hope there wouldn't be personality- clash or conflict of opinions on that?
People believe so much in speculation and as a journalist I wouldn't advise you to do that, Ladoja has never come out to say that , and there are procedure even if anybody is coming out to do that he has not stopped those planning to do that. Let us wait till then "when we reach the bridge we cross it". When a case is in court it is not proper to make it a subject of media trial. You know when people see that a person had not been understood well to know his next steps; people go out to malign him. The case of the court by Rescue team was what had cautioned us from doing some certain things .
Well, what people are saying in respect of Ladoja and politics in Oyo State cum Nigeria is that ; is Ladoja still relevant, what do you have to say to this ?
Sometime when question is of question and answer I like to put it back like this that is he not relevant. If Ladoja is not relevant will Gana come all along from Abuja to convince him in joining PDP back, Atiku too invited him for meeting, Lamido couldn't have sent Kasaure to Ladoja; I was in that meeting not that I don't know what transpired. Sometime in life it is God that give a man guarantee and relevance. Compare the time of Ladoja in power here in Oyo State to this present administration ; Ladoja did well so, when you're in the government make sure you do what is right and perform well. Look at the state in respect of the payment of the workers' salaries, standard of education. Look at the educational sector in Oyo State compare with Ladoja's day; you can go and ask the civil-servants , Ladoja paid workers and pensioners as at when due. The appointment of some principal officers of the different department had been good, look at the appointment of Mrs Florence Okeniyi; the accountant-general then, is it that of the Polytechnic Rector then in person of Dr. Adetumobi you want to talk about or that of P.S.O Taiwo of the BCOS. So if we are talking about relevance Ladoja is truly relevant. Why didn't they come from Abuja to visit these so called politicians in Oyo State, it is the light-wight that are talking otherwise. We are not bothered with the media-trial or the political hullabaloo, I can remember in October 2014 Ladoja was wooed by some APC stalwarts to join the party.
It is learnt some honourable are planning to cross-carpet to other parties, are you aware?
Well, I can talk only for myself. Ladoja always say "have an address before address". Some people joined politics without having anything they are doing before. I resigned as a branch manager for a reputable bank before coming into politics. When you are leaving where you are living before have an address . Don't forget what we are discussing today is politics of issue. Why should I decamp when the APC have great internal and external problems, is it at the national or state level, what of the in-fighting among them or the economy reform that is in shamble? Once you know what you're doing you have to be steadfast . It is politics of chop make I chop that is disturbing them. Ladoja is he I so much believe in because of his ideology, making people his center of politics. During his time he was paying the workers and pensioners as at when due. When you don't have what you are doing is when you will want to hold on a tree or just anything whatsoever to survive. And with Ladoja being a grass-root politician why should I leave him for another party.
Is it true that there is going to be merger of political parties?
Politics is not that constant, the only thing constant is 'change' in life, don't forget all these parties arise from the neon-formation before. You know party or no party, one thing major that must be addressed quickly is the welfare of people, people are suffering outside there, there was a case of a woman that fell down being helped by Police P PRO handling food to her . And since 'change' is constant; let us wait at-least APC is the amalgam of AD, AC. I pray a new party coming should be well prepared to live up to the expectation of the masses.
We learnt government is planning to introduce E-voting machine into voting in Nigeria, what do you see to that?
I welcome the E-voting because the whole world is dynamic, things are changing and developing so if E-voting is part of the development let it be, nobody should allow his future being played with.
Looking into the way politics is being played in Nigeria, one can say the politicians are feeding on lies and propaganda, while campaigning and later in government , they lie to their people and this is greatly affecting us negatively, don't you see it is not proper?
It is a Yoruba adage that says "in a conversation between two people; the one lying knows while other being lied to also know". And if one takes lies from one another that means one too has a reason why he does that. It is because our people too expect money from 'these-politicians' that they accept their lies from them. And let me tell you not all politicians lie. In my constituency when they asked of my major plans and priority I told them they are education, sport and skills-acquisition, which I have been living up to their expectation therefore, in a situation where the electorates allowed to be lied to then, it is their fault, because they ought to have known who is lying, except they themselves have ulterior motives, to buy their lies. But one thing I'm sure of is that the electorates are more enlightened and come 2019 I don't expect them to be swayed into what they don't want to do through lies.
Well, it is to everybody's aspiration to go further in life, if one may ask you after this what are you planning to do?
It is God that knows the best , why can't we wait on God, who knows what is happening . Let us plan how we are going to impact the lives of our people.
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