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Ali Olanusi’s fear and fairytale

Ali Olanusi’s fear and fairytale

We read with consternation the tissue of lies told by Alhaji Ali Olanusi about our party APC in Ondo State. Perhaps Alhaji Ali Olanusi’s conservative background puts him under illusion that no one from our party identifies with Arakunrin Akeredolu as long as they are not members of his Unity Forum led group in the state.

He should be told that the philosophy of the progressive provides for individual rights (including civil and human), free markets economy, democracy, secularism, gender equality, racial equality, freedom of speech, including the right to associate and so on.

The edicts of the conservative party which Alhaji Ali Olanusi leans on centers around serfdom and dictatorship. It is a practice not fitting the edifice of the progressives.

Arakunrin Akeredolu would have none of it that certain conservative elements prescribe to him the duties becoming of his office, rather he would opt for the guidelines of party machinery to take its cause on  decision making and execution.

As a core conservative person, Alhaji Ali Olanusi would not appreciate the collective decision making system of our party, neither would he identify with the collective input system as a mode of  contribution to the government of our people’s governor in the person of Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.

It is, therefore, mischievous on the part of these goons to infer that the governor do not deliberate with the party hierarchy on issues of concrete stand before taking decisions.

It would interests anyone who cares to know, that Ali Olanusi’s Unity group is constantly at loggerhead with the state Exco. The group is not willing to participate in the cohesive system of decision making process of the party, nor does it want to make any meaningful impact at that quarters at all.

The Ali Olanusi led Unity Forum has severed all ties with the mainstream APC in the state and is out of tune with party operational system known to all sane persons and members of our party.

It is a fact that the group has decided  not be part of the day to day activities of our party in the state, this does not imply that the party is not making progress. We are. It is they that are crippled and stagnant in views and in acts.

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The regular meetings of the party holds in all the 201 wards and the 18 LGAs. Also, the State Exco meets from time to time at the State party Secretariat in Akure where all decisions are coordinated for actions within or outside the ambit of the State Working Committee.

As a political party, we are very proud of the contributions of the wife of the governor, Mrs Betty Akeredolu, the First Lady. Her enormous contributions thrive in the education and empowerment of the youth and women in the state is unquantifiable. Her personal project in the state, BRECAN, has created awareness  suggestive of relief measures and cure to breast cancer.

This project, BRECAN, has earned her global applause and prestigious awards. This is a feat everyone in the state identifies with, safe the enemies of progress, the Unity Forum. This group and their followers would gladly run Mother Theresa down just to establish how ingenious they can be.

If Alhaji Ali Olanusi and his ilks in the Unity Forum do not see those projects championed by the First Lady as something to write home about, then the time has come for them to take a walk to hibernate  in a different world. This is an advice everyone on their streets should persuade them to undertake so that they do not spoil things for the good people of Ondo State who love their governor and the First Lady for what they are and what they stand for.

Clearly seen, the actions of the Unity Forum is obviously driven from the perspective of a desperate group trying so hard to see the downfall of a good man occupying the office of the governor.

Alhaji Ali Olanusi who is the chairman of Benin/Owena River Basin Development Authority, a federal government agency saddled with the primary responsibility to undertake comprehensive development of underground water resources for multi-purpose use to benefit the people of the state is purportedly claiming that there is no pipe borne water anywhere in Ondo State. He has to justify his stay in that office, really.

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If Alhaji Ali Olanusi in the management of the Benin/Owena River Basin has applied himself dutifully across sectors within the river basin system in order to propagate the economic and social benefits derived from water resources in an equitable manner, perhaps, the people of Ondo State should have been enjoying pipe borne water in the last five years he has been in the saddle of the water basin.

On the other side, Arakunrin Akeredolu, immediately he came to office, has embarked on the sinking of standard boreholes (Emu Omi Aketi), across the 18 local government areas of Ondo State as a relief to the people. Also, he rehabilitated all the abandoned water scheme in the state. This intervention became necessary as a results of neglect by subsequent administrations before him in which Mr Ali Olanusi, as a former Deputy Governor in the state, played significant roles. The time has come to ask questions.

Arakunrin Akeredolu’s unusual transformation agenda for the state has brought about monumental projects scattered everywhere. Posterity would put him in a firm place in the history’s hall of fame of great achievers in this state. We owe him gratitude for an unprecedented development of human and material resources in the state.

Hear Alhaji Ali Olanusi suggesting that we need a government that will listen to the people, one that will do what the people wants. That is exactly what Akeredolu has been doing and will continue to do, bringing the dividends of democracy to the good people of Ondo State.

He upholds a government policy that facilitates the creation of massive  employment opportunities as visible in the Ondo Liyn Industrial hub. There is the development of a blueprint for massive infrastructure development that will enhance the flow of economic traffic on our industrial terrain.

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Worthy of mention is the gargantuan multi-billion naira Ore flyover, the first of its kind in the state. There are the beautifully tarred Emure-Owo link road, the dual carriage Akure High Court to Oluwatuyi/Ijoka/Idanre road and many other infrastructural development drives going on in the state.

Has Arakunrin Akeredolu refused to listen to the good people and our good leaders in the state, but has done the wish of those few cabal in the bracket of the Unity Group, Ondo State would not had witnessed this type of uncommon development that has characterized the state in just two and a half year period of Aketi in office.

Mr Ali Olanusi is hereby advised to stop spreading deluge of lies about the leadership of the party in the state. He should stop threatening the party with fire and brimstone, fuming APC will lose the coming poll if his anointed candidate does not emerge as the party’s flag bearer at the primary. It is God that gives position and authority to man. That is our belief.

However, we are assuring all our party members that, this time around, things will be done differently under the leadership of Mr. Ade Adetimehin in defeating the opposition party in the coming gubernatorial election.

We are going to work assiduously to support the Election Committee that will be sent by our National party in conducting a credible, free and fair primary election. The party will not take side or be biased in its conduct. The rights and privileges of members of the party qualified to contest will be guaranteed and the willingness of party members in supporting any aspirant of their choice will be adequately protected by the party in the said primary election.

Our advice to whomsoever would want to contest the election is to do so, but give respect to the good people of Ondo. We owe them a peaceful transition process.

Steve Otaloro. Director, Media  & Publicity APC, Ondo State.

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