Saturday 21 April 2018

WHEN OBASA RE-RUN, LITTLE KINGS WILL BE ON THE RUN (OBA KEEKEKE A SA)



WHEN OBASA RE-RUN, LITTLE KINGS WILL BE ON THE RUN (OBA KEEKEKE A SA)

By Olajide A. S
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Once again, the intensification and preparation of 2019 general elections has been on top gear in Agege Local government and the gladiators are stepping up various strategies to penetrate the minds of their respective party supporters and the people. The littering of signposts, postals across major roads and the chanting of “I no go gree” among the players and their supporters is pointing to the direction of exploiting all possibilities by the gladiators  to be the favourite party flagbearer of their parties at the same time, the winner of the election. Though, it is never a constitutional breach to show interest of vying for a political post and that is what translated into the pasting of posters and the placing of signposts as it was witnessed. The social media too, presently, was also a medium using by the gladiators to fester on their ambitions. Visiting the pages of the supporters of the gladiators will left you with no doubt that till February 2019 when elections will be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, the page of the supporters of these political gladiators will be busy with unalloyed support, sycophancy, ingenuity, abuse, blackmailing, argument and counter argument.

The 2019 election in Agege can be coined as the continuation of political game between Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa and the other camp within the rulling All Progressive Congress (APC) in the local government. The last local government election was assumed to be the exacerbation of the existing discord between the camp of Obasa and the other divide because of the entrenched political interplay that characterized the choosing of the flagbearer in the party. Both camps lay claims to the authenticity of their respective candidates and it takes INEC ordination to settle the brouhaha few days to the elections.             Expectedly, the norms in Nigeria politics is for the side that is fast loosing the grip to start throwing tantrum at the other side with the accusation of imposition and the monetization of the whole processes. This was exactly what Obasa has been accused of at the last local government election in Agege. When a friend who happened to be a staunch supporter of the other side is relating what happened to me in the last local government elections, he erroneously indicted his camp by agreeing that the vice chairman in the local government, Abiodun Ogunji, is from their camp. The question that depicted my lips to my friend was; if your camp produced the vice chairman, why are you guys still not in tandem with the fact that your camp also controls a very high position in the current local government administration?

What Obasa has been accused of is his sense of awakening to the responsibility of projecting his party APC in the right path in the local government by annihilating the old status quo of “me and me alone “syndrome when it comes to the sharing of the resources in the local government. The result of the “me and me alone syndrome” was what ousted one of the major player of the other divide during the 2015 primary election when seeking for House of  Representative ticket despite the sharing of dollars to the delegates on the eve of the primary elections. Yet, no lesson has been learnt on this and the best they can do is to start attacking a man that is trying to reposition the party to his strong path of glory it enjoys in the past.

Another question is, are these people expecting Obasa to take the back seat and be embedded in docility despite that he was the speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly? Lagos state was just rated as the fastest growing city in Africa under Governor Ambode and the essentiality of this achievement must be the cooperation the governor is enjoying with the House of Assembly under the amiable leadership of Rt. Hon. Mudashir Obasa. I don’t think anybody even within the other divide will be covered with such hallucination of abnegating the responsibility of leadership of his party in his local government when elected as the speaker of the House of Assembly in the state?
The conclusion is simple and straight, Rt, Hon, Mudashir Ajayi Obasa is the Speaker Lagos State House Of Assembly and he represented Agege constituency 01. Construction and restructuring of roads are massively going on in the local government, Agege have the Commissioner for Environment, Dr, Samuel Babatunde Adejare. The construction of 1.4 kilometer bridge at Pen cinema to link Agunbiade and Alfa-Nla is ongoing. State social benefits was much extended and expanded in the local government all on the basis that the Speaker of the House of Assembly is from Agege Local Government. So it is not commonsensical at all to forestall the returning of Obasa to the House of Assembly all in the name that he has been in the assembly for long. What suppose to be the striking point in the mind of patriots is that, what will people at large gain in a certain action undertaken by them? Anybody called himself a patriot and not championing the cause of the people first in his actions and inactions will definitely find himself alone in the wilderness- an abode where they are till present. Obasa will re-contest and he will win and once again become the Speaker Lagos State House of Assembly so that Agege Local government can continuing be the haven of modernity and development. “It is indeed foolish and madness to turn off the heat when the water had started boiling”