Apart from making frantic efforts to open up all the bad roads in the state to enable farmers bring out their farm produce to the urban areas, Abiodun has invested in the 200-hectare rice farm in Magboro, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state, dubbed “Alubarika Cluster”, which has 200 farmers on 200 hectares of land that can meet the rice needs of the entire nation. This, with the rice production in Lagos, Yobe, and a few other states, are impressive and commendable.
There are the Farm Laboratories in the state, tagged Ogun Youth Agricultural Programme, which Abiodun is using to encourage the youth to embrace farming. This is besides the distribution of free 24,000 bags of fertilizers to 12,000 farmers across the nooks and crannies of the state.
Meanwhile, many of the governors are frittering away their increased monthly allocations on inanities. They are, at the same time, making every effort to finally bury the local councils that they have succeeded in killing, despite the Supreme Court judgement which granted autonomy to the councils.
EXPOSED!! POPULAR ABUJA DOCTOR REVEALED HIDDEN SECRET ON HOW MEN CAN NATURALLY AND PERMANENTLY CURE POOR ERECTION,QUICK EJACULATION, SMALL AND SHAMEFUL MANHOOD WITHOUT SIDE EFFECTS. EVEN IF YOU ARE HYPERTENSIVE OR DIABETIC ..STOP THE USE OF HARD DRUG FOR SEX!! IT KILLS!
Sadly, Governors Charles Soludo of Anambra State, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Siminalaye Fubara of Rivers State and many of their counterparts are making all efforts to disobey and undermine the apex court’s judgement, ironically, in cahoots with some local council chairmen themselves. In fact, the governors have succeeded in making various council secretariats mere Points of Salary Collection (PSC) for the council workers with no visible projects to show at the local level.
Unfortunately, the lawmakers who are supposed to put the governors on their toes to deliver the dividends of democracy to their people are also working hand in hand with them to pauperise the people the more. Many Houses of Assembly are mere rubber stamps, just like the Godswill Akpabio-led National Assembly.
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However, if those at the helm of affairs in different levels of government in the country keep digging the shitholes, they have already put Nigerians, it is certain that many of them will be stoned on the streets soon. Any government policy that does not start having little positive effects on the people within one year after its introduction may eventually end up as a failed policy. Those at the helm cannot continue to tell the governed to be patient in the midst of massive pains while they live in opulence.
Year 2025 is just a few weeks away when politicking will go full swing; when the President and the governors will shift focus from governance to electioneering, as it is gradually happening in my state, Ekiti, at present, where the governor marked his two years in office recently and the hungry residents of the state have already started campaigning for his second term! Once attention is completely shifted from governance by politicians, the citizens are done for.
And with the kind of behaviour by the people during electioneering, will any politician ever take them seriously?
*Concluded
*Chief Omolale, a journalist, writes via somolale@gmail.com
