I will demystify governance in Nigeria – Oshiomhole Part1

[RAYNOSA]

I will demystify governance in Nigeria – Oshiomhole

What kind of government should the people of Edo expect?
When you have a government put in place by the people to work for the people, for the good of the people, it has to be what I call the people’s government. By that I mean not just by way of description; we are going to entrench a government that will work together not just for the people but together with the people. Like I said the other day governance is not a football match where you have 22 players playing and then four linesmen and one referee with tens of thousands of spectators watching to be entertained. However, the typical Nigerian government has been like that, so it is either the players are doing well and you clap or they are not doing well, but because of police and SSS, you just grumble internally. But if you are not afraid to get arrested you grumble out aloud.

But in Edo State we are going to evolve a government that will be led by the people, by which we mean a bottom up approach in policy formulation, because there are so many things/challenges confronting our people. So the best way to get your priorities right is to ensure that you consult with your people so that they partake in the process of ordering your priorities, which is why we emphasise people in all we say and we do. I have also said that we want to demystify governance and by that I mean Nigerians for too long have come to believe that once you are in government, you are something special and that is why everybody will refer to you as ‘Your Excellency’, some will say ‘My Excellency’. But all of that is a Nigerian disease. Governance is about opening it up and letting the people see that it is a collective process. Also we must remind ourselves and myself that I am a governor not because I have all the wisdom but that I and I alone cannot make all the difference necessary for people to experience qualitative changes in their lifestyle. So, we need to engage, we need to involve the people at all levels. In other words, the people will not just be the object of development, they will be the means as well as the end of what we do. That for me is the difference between success and failure. What this means is popular ownership of public policy so that the people will own the programmes and policies. I think for too long, Nigerians have been reduced to spectators. But my government will engage with the public and that will make all the difference.

Do you anticipate some obstacles in the course of carrying out your vision given the old way of doing things in Edo State?

We have fought and won the first battle. The first battle was, who are you, who is behind you are and if we can see who is behind you and we don’t know who you are, how can you make it. Now that is all settled, the answer to who am I is, I am the product of a popular mandate and that settles so many questions. What can you do? All of that which the people have asked me to do. On whose authority? On the authority of the people and there is nobody who can block us because behind the power we are going to deploy, it is a popular power and nobody can resist it. You see that is the difference between any human being who feels he is privileged to have been adopted by a select few; then you feel so insecure and you are permanently hunted by the crisis of illegitimacy. In my own case, the government will be reinforced everyday and we speak with confidence because we have the mandate. It makes a lot of difference.

But we do know that in spite of the popular mandate in Edo State, there are still some people who parade as godfathers.

But that has been settled. By Tuesday it was settled. God’s people prevailed over the godfathers. That has been settled now and there is no longer a debate over that.

How do you intend to handle a state assembly that is dominated by the opposition?

The state assembly is not dominated by the opposition but made up of Edo people who happen to have used different political platforms to get there. But first and foremost they are Edo people, committed to the development of Edo State and they made promises to Edo people that they will work for their betterment. So now they have a partner in the Executive who is very passionate about the same objective, then we must uplift the quality of life of the people. So I do not foresee any problems at all.

What is your reaction to the perception that you are a beneficiary of the crisis within the PDP in Edo State?

(cuts in) How?

The quarrel between Osunbor and Anenih.

(cuts in) In what sense?

In the sense that their inability to sort out their differences, gave strength to your victory.

No, AC was already in existence before Osunbor was rigged into office. So it has nothing to do with it. Secondly, the PDP was ‘united’ when we defeated Osunbor at the election petition tribunal seven months ago. So as far as I am concern, PDP’s quarrel has nothing to do with the Appeal Court judgment. The truth of the matter is that Osunbor was never elected and the courts have found that out and on the basis of this fact, they have sent him away. Whether PDP was united or not, it would not have changed this fact.

The papers have quoted you as saying you will make use of the best brains in your government irrespective of the political parties, does this include the PDP?

(cuts in) Yes.

Including Osunbor’s cabinet members?

Not necessarily because Osunbor was not elected, so he was always hunted. He was acutely aware that he was living in borrowed robes, that he was put and sustained there by the power of the barrel of the gun; by the mobile police and some few elements. And because he (Osunbor) felt so empty, he had to allow his political godfathers like Ogbemudia, for example, to go and bring his daughters who otherwise cannot find gainful employment and made them commissioners. That is what he did. I will not employ children of party leaders who can’t make it independently but you use governance to rehabilitate themselves. I will not do that. That is what Osunbor had to do. So there is nothing in his cabinet that can be inherited. But if he had a brain that could be tapped, I would have gone for it. I think the only brain he has that one could possibly have employed is his Attorney General who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). But I am sure he is a man of integrity. He would not want to have been soiled by an illegitimate regime that a court has now pronounced illegal; and having been part of that shame he might not want to serve under my leadership. But he is the only one ordinarily on his own merit, irrespective of what party he belongs to, that I would have been quite happy to work with. I can’t take those other ones that were just nominated by people like Ogbemudia. But there are people within the PDP who are qualified, competent professionals, some of them also politicians and if we have space and they are willing to work with us, why not. Like I said, I think the state is greater than any political party or even all the political parties put together. So PDP people are welcome on board.

Watching you address the crowd on Wednesday, one will find it difficult to distinguish between Adams Oshiomhole the union activist and Oshiomhole the politician and governor of Edo State.

(cuts in) What makes it difficult?

We saw a labour leader talking as if he was talking to government. Meanwhile he is the government?

No. I can recap some of the things that I said. I was talking with force which is not typical of the way government people talk. You can’t say I was talking as if I was protesting. For example, I said the extortionists who have been extorting money from the poor must vacate because I will not tolerate them. They must relocate. I was giving orders, I wasn’t begging them. I said the place will be too hot because I am going to move against you. I said I will, I didn’t say I was pleading so how can you say it was the same? But the character is the same. I watched it too and I saw that I was so serious, that is because I meant every word that I uttered. Those words came from my heart. It is not from a prepared speech that I just read it for ceremonial purpose, no. Everything that I said yesterday (Wednesday), I meant it. And I often get angry over the very harsh visible conditions that these people are wallowing in. Imagine, somebody selling pure water and you ask the person to pay you N20, he gives you the N20 and you put in your pocket by 8 a.m. in the morning. Then by 3 p.m. you meet him again and say he should give you another N20 and if he doesn’t pay you, you will beat him up. He goes to the police and the police turns a blind eye. Then goes to government, but he can’t even reach the governor and he has to live with that pain. When I reflect on those conditions I get angry and that anger is expressed in the way I look. So that is just it. I was at work on Tuesday and it was my first day in office having been hired as a governor and it is an indication as to how my mind works. The condition of our people is so bad and it hurts any man of conscience and I am pained by the suffering that I see that our people are wallowing in, and my mission is that we must set them free. To do that, we must send clear notice to those who are benefiting from the status quo that the game is up. Whether they are reading my face or reading my voice, the message should be clear.

Are you not hasty in your pronouncements of things you want to do without taking time to study things on ground?

Osunbor didn’t put anything on ground. It was because his government was illegal and illegitimate, he was very conscious of the emptiness, he was not on ground and so he spent a lot of resources on sponsored articles, opinions and even paid for editorials in one of the tabloids where they said because Osunbor had worked, he should be allowed to continue his course. This was on the eve of the judgement. So, he paid for those ones and of course it devalued the entire worth of that newspaper because of that editorial. But the truth of the matter is that for you to see the contradiction, the newspaper which he had paid to write what I call ‘sweetheart’ stories, was unable to hide the fact that when it rained about six weeks ago, three babies were washed off in Edo. One was recovered while two are still missing due to flood erosion. They were washed away from the bedrooms of their parent’s homes. So where are the roads that Osunbor claims to have been constructing, where are the drainages that he claims to have spent billions clearing and yet with little rainfall, children were washed away, parents were running helter skelter. So those were just newspaper reports. If Osunbor had touched the lives of the people, how can you explain the crowd you saw at the stadium on Wednesday? Are Nigerians so ungrateful that when you have touched their lives so much, they are still vehemently oppose you? He had 18 months to make a difference in their lives and yet they were angrier to see to his departure. So forget what the paper wrote and that is the danger of a hired commentary. When you sweeten some reporters to write stories for you, it does not change the condition you have on ground. So that crowd you saw yesterday, the celebration, when I introduced some people you heard the crowd booing them. So Osunbor was just busy giving contracts to people like Ogbemudia. I am mentioning Ogbemudia because I know it is true.

Both at the court and during the swearing-in, you could hear the shouts of Obama from the crowd. Your supporters attributed this to the dividends of Obama elections in the US. Do you have anything to say about this?

I don’t think they were talking about the dividends in a wrong way. I think what the people implied when they shouted is that the ordinary Nigerian understands what is happening even in America. You know what the Obama phenomena represents, a departure from the past - the end of ethnicity and race as a basis of choice. It is not where are you from but what do you know, that is what Obama represents. So any time you hear Obama it is associated with merit over primordial sentiments. Like many of the people were saying, Oshiomhole is not a politician, and in some interviews I said I don’t even want to be called a politician. And then Obama’s incredible message was irresistible, one that demonstrated that he understood the challenges of the 21st century and his message was we must break from the past - the operative word was change. In Edo State, the battle we are fighting is to change from a regime in which it is who you know that determines what you are. I think that it is in that sense, and between the forces that want to sustain the status quo and the forces of change, is how I understand the crowd’s comparison to Obama.

[RAYNOSA]

I will demystify governance in Nigeria – Oshiomhole


How do you intend to tackle the elite who might resist change?

The average enlightened elite you can classify them. You have the productive elites those who work and have made money and are making money, then you have another class a section of elite that are just parasites, they don’t work, they prey on the system, they manipulate levers of power and enrich themselves. They often don’t have a business address, they have cellular phone numbers and with that become billionaires. For the latter, the one I have just described, they are terrified. For the former, those who work and have made money, they want changes so that they can enjoy their legitimate wealth. They have business addresses and among those who funded my campaign are young men and women, some not so young, from across the country who believe that good governance is necessary for them to enjoy prosperity. It is of no use that you have to be inside a bullet proof vehicle each time we want to enter the road because I can tell you that there is very little comfort driving an armoured vehicle. There is no fun in establishing a police post inside your compound manned by AK47 trotting mobile policemen because you suspect that every other person wants to kill you because you are wealthy and your neighbourhood is poor. There is no fun in sacrificing your comfort when you put mobile police in front of your vehicle and you are with your wife at the back, but you cannot discuss private family matters because the policeman is by you. For those people who have to resort this kind of tactics to protect themselves, they are anxious to see a progressive Nigeria that can keep young people busy so that they can be turned away from crime, they can drive their vehicles without carrying mobile policemen everywhere. But for the other parasitic class, yes because they are not used to earning their up keep, they maybe worried and for them we have what it takes to defeat them. So we have too classes those who are working and have a lot to show for it and those who do not work and have too much excess and cannot explain it. I think in terms of balance of forces, the overwhelming majority of those who are in legitimate business will be in partnership with me for us to clean up the system, empower the unemployed, empower the youth so that the wealthy can enjoy their wealth while the poor are also kept busy and be able to put something in their mouth to chew. But for the small tiny group, we will crush them. It’s not a problem.

On the day of the judgement, workers at the Federal Secretariat were jubilating but were hopeful that you do not fail. This is an indication that you are a national symbol even though you are governor of Edo State. Yet the workers identify with you. Do you see this as a burden?

Is a big challenge, no doubt. I recognise that I represent the progressive side of Nigerian politics. The only amendment I want to make is that it is not just workers. By workers, you mean salary earners. There are many market women, Okada riders, the local entrepreneurs, even a good section of the top business community that contributed to my campaign that says, look we made money but we want a Nigeria that works so that we can enjoy our wealth. And one told me Adams, I am in PDP but I wish that you win this court case, our support is not based on political party membership but about you and what we think you can do. He told me Adams, you just know that you must go and succeed. I appreciate the level of expectation and for the entire progressive community I am carrying their flag and they have a stake in my success or otherwise. I am conscious of that but I am very confident that we will make it and do them proud because once you open up the system, you engage the people, you are transparent, they can see that within the limited resources, this is what is possible.

What are the key areas you will be concentrating on?

We identified them yesterday. The starting point is education and human capital development, begin with free and compulsory education at primary and post primary levels. So education is key, and this is more so in a knowledge driven digitalised world. Right now in Edo State, as in many parts of Nigeria, you have primary one and two in one classroom, primary three and four in one classroom. That for me is criminal. Those children can only give birth to motor park boys, they can never make it to the polytechnic level. So the labourer will give birth to another labourer and to another labourer and they are sentenced for life. So we want to bail them out because I am the product of public free primary and secondary school education policies. The second is, if you have a license to drive and you have no vehicle to drive, it can be extremely frustrating. So why do you go to school, knowledge can be said to be an end in itself, the fact that you are educated is an advantage but you shouldn’t stretch it too far. So you must create opportunity for quality employment, what in the labour world is called decent employment. So we want to create employment for our people and I believe through public works, construction of roads, drainages, beautification of the city, planting grasses, maintaining lawns, keeping the environment clean across the states. At a stretch we can create 10,000 jobs and we are going to do that. In addition to do that, because government alone cannot create all the jobs, we will liaise effectively with those businesses that are already in the state. The big, the medium and small and see what is it that government can do to enhance opportunities for growth and expansion which of course will lead to more hands being hired. In addition to that we must create some micro credit scheme that will enable those who have viable business ideas to set up businesses which hopefully will lead to one or two or three, four, five persons being employed in business. And overtime his can amount to creating more jobs. I also believe people can not be productive if they are not healthy, so the health delivery system has to be revamped such that no Edo person or any one who lives in Edo State should be allowed to die of a disease that is curable. I believe it is not too much it is not beyond government to ensure this happens. Lastly, the bulk of our people are still in the rural areas. So to fight poverty decisively and on a sustainable basis, we must engage the rural communities in ways and means of advancing rural communities. Rural productivity is low and young people are voting with their feet and to do that you just need a combination of incentives to engage the farmers. Edo state has very fertile land. Of course I also believe that if you are going to keep people healthy, it not just about improving the health care delivery system, but about ensuring that at least they have access to clean water. With clean water, you can outrightly eliminate water born diseases and if you achieve that you would have reduced the number of people dying from water borne ailments by a reasonable percentage. There are several other challenges. But for me, these are the key areas in addition to culture, tourism, sports, etc.

You are coming into governance when the price of oil is going down and that is likely to affect the federation account allocation that accrues to the state. How are you going to tackle this problem given the scope of your programme?

That is a very valid point you have made. This afternoon (Thursday) after seeing the President, I met the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and this is what we were discussing. He said Adams, you are coming in at a time when the price of oil has gone down by more than 50 per cent and yet from what everyone has seen in Edo State, your coming in has also shot up the level of expectations. So you have increased expectations and declining resources and the gap is obvious. My reply was yes it is true but whatever we are going to do Edo, people know I am not a magician and everything is relative - relative to the means available. If I have N10 to spend I will be judged on the N10 that I had. I know that sometimes the ordinary man hardly knows the difference, because how many ordinary people know that oil is now $50 and that three months ago it was $140 but it is your duty to let them know, educate and enlighten but you must truthful about it. But like I uses to say at the NLC, when you accept a job, please don’t complain, don’t go making excuses, don’t give reasons why you failed. You must rather find ways and means of taking extra steps, making extra efforts to ensure that you succeed because challenges are meant to be overcome. There cannot be excuses for doing nothing. So, irrespective of what happens in the oil market, we will deliver on our promises within the resources available. After all, as I said earlier, I am a product of qualitative primary education at a time Nigeria was not an oil exporting country and nations that are doing well are not oil exporting countries.

So one of the things I have to do is to look at things available for us to diversify our resource base. I mean look at Lagos, incidentally an AC state, when Tinubu came in 1999, their internally generated revenue was about N6 million but as we speak I think they get over N12 billion. So they can pay their salaries comfortably. This was achieved through a lot of thinking, a of lot creativity, a lot of efforts went into that. I don’t believe government should just depend on going to collect cheques from Abuja, I think any lazy fellow can do that. So there will be challenges and I am not pretending it is going to be easy but life is not meant to be easy. I have survived up to this point not because it was easy.

There is a disturbing trend in Edo State. Benin is one of the oldest state capitals in the country and there is the belief that most magnificent buildings are owned by Edo State indigenes engaged in prostitution abroad?

(cuts in). That is not true. I listened to you just to make sure that I understand you very well. That is not true. Based on the history of prostitution in Nigeria it is clear that Edo people were not at the forefront. But it is not for me to mention any specific tribes and states that were known, notorious or famous for prostitution. So it is not correct to suggest that Edo girls are more into prostitution relative to other parts of the country. But we have very enterprising people, so let’s look at the other side and I will point out other areas. Edo is a minority state but when you look at the private electronic media who are the owners? The private print media, weekly news magazines until they brought the federal character who dominated the Nigerian police? Who dominated the federal civil service? Under Gowon, which state contributed the most? We had a fare share of super permanent secretaries. We were the best but because you see I am basically a Nigerian, I don’t like to reduce myself to representing a section but the truth of the matter is that Edo did represent the best of the country. So it is out of mischief that those who are in Italy or else where are prostitutes from Edo. How about those who are into drugs? Those who have been arrested for child trafficking, ritual murders they are not Edo people!

I am very proud of Edo people.

You met with the President today (Thursday), what are the key areas you discussed?

Oh the President gave me a blank cheque. I got a blank cheque which I am sure will be the envy of many because he told me, Adams I am ready to do anything to assist you to succeed because I know you mean well. If my president says that to me, I am three, four, five feet taller. So I was very happy and I also pledged my total support and loyalty and I pledged the loyalty of the people of Edo State to his person and his government. And I said after the next one or two weeks when I have a clearer picture of the state of affairs I will know those areas we will need federal help for and I am sure we will need a lot of help. I have his assurances on that. In his words, he said ‘anything in any area,’ I can’t ask for more than that. So I am going back to Edo people to tell them that you have a president in Abuja who is very anxious to assist our state and we look forward to drawing on that goodwill.

On Channels TV you said you are not going to probe your predecessor(s) but when you see some glaring things you may be inclined to.

The rule of law will be invoked. That is clear. I mean it is bad enough that he never had the mandate to be there but if he decided to play with state funds; and already there are negative signals, but like I said earlier in the day I don’t want to jump into conclusion because I want to be sure of the facts. I think by next week the picture will be very clear. But I wouldn’t want to speak at length on that.

[RAYNOSA]

Given your activism and advocacy for workers, the nations as well as governors from other states will look at the way you treat your workers. Are we likely to see something different?

How do you mean?

In terms of welfare, etc, because you have struggled all your life for workers.

Did you listen to my address yesterday and what did I say about the workers? I said workers, this is your government. It is their own. They have a duty to make sure it succeeds. Just like they don’t need to preach to me about the import of a well motivated work force, I also don’t need to preach to them about the need for them to be productive and to join forces so that their own government succeeds so that another worker can take over from me, so that we can put this idle class out of business for a long time in our state. So I have no problem with that. I think the workers are very confident that they have someone now who speaks their own dialect, we have the same fears, I have represented them before and together with them we have marched on the streets. They know I know the pains, the never need to tell me the frustrations of a man or woman who was due for promotion and he was never promoted? They don’t need to remind me of the evil of a man being retired and his gratuity has not being paid. The pensioner doesn’t need to preach to me about what it means to parade an 80 year old man in pension office so that he can die, so that the state can save some money because I have spoken for them. They don’t need to remind me that the worker is also a husband with a wife and children and therefore he has needs and that he is entitle to plan his family life, therefore the pay day should not be negotiated. The pay day must be seen as sacrosanct so that the worker can plan his own family budget. They never need to make petitions for me to know. But they will expect that because it is their government I expect them to put extra efforts so that other people will not laugh at all of us. And if we have to go on strike all of us we will go, myself inclusive - having been their president, once a president, always a president - I will lead to ensure that we workers of Edo State are well looked after, the governor as well because I am on a salary. So it is going to be a win-win situation. The good thing is that we speak the same language so we don’t need interpreters.

Was former President Obasanjo among those who called to congratulate you?

I don’t think it is in his character to accept defeat. I have defeated him and I am sure he has not recovered but life goes on. May he live long to see and to suffer more defeats and I am sure he will. I pray everyday for his good health, for his long life to see Nigeria grow, to see future presidents and present presidents conducting free and fair elections and the whole world celebrating his successors where people were booing him. And to see Nigeria making it where he thought war will break out. May he live long enough to see the country that is at peace with itself and the people so that he can live with the shame of a president that mismanaged a life’s opportunity. A country that was so grateful to him and he rewarded it with evil. So I forgive him, Nigeria will forgive him but God will decide how to record his place in history. So I don’t have personal bitterness.

[WaleAkin]

Oga, Stop all these rhetorics and buttered semantics, get down to work ASAP and lets do a duty check cum appraisal in 100 days.

[Dapxin]

Originally Posted by WaleAkin

Oga, Stop all these rhetorics and buttered semantics, get down to work ASAP and lets do a duty check cum appraisal in 100 days.

He needs to be reminded 48hours+ is GONE out of the 365x4 he's got now

and the PDP thugs are waiting in the wings....

[Sapele Man]

Originally Posted by WaleAkin

Oga, Stop all these rhetorics and buttered semantics, get down to work ASAP and lets do a duty check cum appraisal in 100 days.

WaleAkin

There is a medal in the post to you for your excellent comment. More grease to your elbow.


PS. Don't worry if you don't get your medal, a jealous postman may have taken it!

[Chief Kalu]

Originally Posted by Sapele Man

WaleAkin

There is a medal in the post to you for your excellent comment. More grease to your elbow.


PS. Don't worry if you don't get your medal, a jealous postman may have taken it!

Wale,
You got it there. I am skeptical about Oshimole. He pushed himself to the front burner of Nigerian politics using the labour movement to become governor of Edo State. If we look closely at his achievements with petroleum pricing agitation,one can not say for sure that he won the fight for the masses. We never through labour stopped price increase. He tried nontheless at creating a semblance of opposition. But in terms of tangible results, I doubt if we got much result. So lets get down to business in Edo State and see what happens in a while.Plenty talk may amount to small action.

[chidi opara reports]

Originally Posted by Chief Kalu

Wale,
You got it there. I am skeptical about Oshimole. He pushed himself to the front burner of Nigerian politics using the labour movement to become governor of Edo State. If we look closely at his achievements with petroleum pricing agitation,one can not say for sure that he won the fight for the masses. We never through labour stopped price increase. He tried nontheless at creating a semblance of opposition. But in terms of tangible results, I doubt if we got much result. So lets get down to business in Edo State and see what happens in a while.Plenty talk may amount to small action.

Oshiohmole should first tell the world the kind of pact he entered into with the influential Igbinedion business and political dynasty, Which prompted Lucky the eldest scion to provide him with all the money and the evidences of rigging with which he won the election and ofcourse the court cases.

We congratulate him all the same. It is just that we think he will likely not be able to shake himself off from the Igbinedion stranglehold, all the rhetorics not withstanding.

[RAYNOSA]

With all eyes on Edo State................We can only hope to see physical developments we are not interested in all these long stories.
I sincerely wish Oshiohmole all the best and his success in office means a lot to us the good people of Edo State.
My fear is that he does not come here with long story as to why he failed.Lets wait and see.
As i have said in other threads:4Four years no be for ever.
Time will tell.

72 hours gone.


I will be back in 100 days time.

[RAYNOSA]

Check this out after 72 hours in Office.
www.edostate.gov.ng/ - 31k

[WaleAkin]

Originally Posted by RAYNOSA

Check this out after 72 hours in Office.
www.edostate.gov.ng/ - 31k

I know that once you assume office, the first 24hrs is of high importance, it is believed in political parlance that this time bracket 00:00-23:99(Day One) is used in the erasure of the predeccessor's insignia. Atleast to show and potray a breath of fresh air and to indicate the advent of a new sojourn! The trick is to remove every semblance and in today's governance, Information Technology is one of such tools and i am therefore surprised(Am i?) to still see the face of former Governor Osunbor on the home page of Edo State website!

I therefore posit without any iota of doubt that Governor Adams Oshiomhole is NOT prepared in the area of IT for the betterment of Edo State, if indeed, he has an IT team in place and on assumption of office, one of the Boys would have changed the face of Edo state on www! Error 1!! Nonetheless, i wish him all the best!

[Mikky jaga]

All we are saaaying.... Oshiomhole!!
All we are saaaying.... Oshiomhole!!!
All we are saaaying.... Oshiomhole!!!!

People's Governor.. Abeg Carry Go!!!
Na you biko... No shaking!!!
The progressive people are behind you!!
The reactionaries will always react
But be assured Victoria acerta!!!

Finally, May God answer your prayers for OBJ! I say a thousand Amen and a million Ise.

[VOR]

Originally Posted by WaleAkin

I know that once you assume office, the first 24hrs is of high importance, it is believed in political parlance that this time bracket 00:00-23:99(Day One) is used in the erasure of the predeccessor's insignia. Atleast to show and potray a breath of fresh air and to indicate the advent of a new sojourn! The trick is to remove every semblance and in today's governance, Information Technology is one of such tools and i am therefore surprised(Am i?) to still see the face of former Governor Osunbor on the home page of Edo State website!

I therefore posit without any iota of doubt that Governor Adams Oshiomhole is NOT prepared in the area of IT for the betterment of Edo State, if indeed, he has an IT team in place and on assumption of office, one of the Boys would have changed the face of Edo state on www! Error 1!! Nonetheless, i wish him all the best!

You guys should leave Adams now abi? whatever Edo state website says temporarily, Edo people know who their governor is, shikena!

As we are always told here - report it!

[chanchaga]

WaleAkin,
Allow the man to rest. The previous gov is still packing his things out of the state house. Adams needs to do thanksgiving and honeymoon.

[VOR]

Originally Posted by chanchaga

WaleAkin,
Allow the man to rest. The previous gov is still packing his things out of the state house. Adams needs to do thanksgiving and honeymoon.

Don't mind Wale jare Chanchaga, I think he is a closet PDP person

[salstep]

Originally Posted by RAYNOSA

Check this out after 72 hours in Office.
www.edostate.gov.ng/ - 31k

I emailed Oshiomhole campign about this last thursday. I cant believe they haven't at least taken the site down. Then again the PDP web administrator may have changed the password before he left.

[WaleAkin]

Originally Posted by Mikky jaga

All we are saaaying.... Oshiomhole!!
All we are saaaying.... Oshiomhole!!!
All we are saaaying.... Oshiomhole!!!!

People's Governor.. Abeg Carry Go!!!
Na you biko... No shaking!!!
The progressive people are behind you!!
The reactionaries will always react
But be assured Victoria acerta!!!

Finally, May God answer your prayers for OBJ! I say a thousand Amen and a million Ise.

Are you seeing my position from the opposing angle?

............And this came from VOR?

Originally Posted by VOR

You guys should leave Adams now abi? whatever Edo state website says temporarily, Edo people know who their governor is, shikena! As we are always told here - report it!

OK, I'd let this slide this time only! Check Salstep post, hope this answers your post with regards to politics reportage?

Originally Posted by Salstep

I emailed Oshiomhole campign about this last thursday. I cant believe they haven't at least taken the site down. Then again the PDP web administrator may have changed the password before he left.

Originally Posted by Chanchaga

WaleAkin,
Allow the man to rest. The previous gov is still packing his things out of the state house. Adams needs to do thanksgiving and honeymoon.

Chan, Is the above a joke or something cos i see no smilies attached! If this is the perceived mentality in Nigeria, then we have a very long way! I have in no way rubbished Governor Adams Oshiomhole at all, i have only posited an argument based on written and seen facts.

Originally Posted by VOR

Don't mind Wale jare Chanchaga, I think he is a closet PDP person

VOR, with this coming from you, i can guarantee you that some mischiveous fella will use the above against me in the near future!

[chanchaga]

Originally Posted by WaleAkin

Chan, Is the above a joke or something cos i see no smilies attached! If this is the perceived mentality in Nigeria, then we have a very long way! I have in no way rubbished Governor Adams Oshiomhole at all, i have only posited an argument based on written and seen facts[/B]

Wale na joke. The man is not guility of anything at all. This just reminded me of a deputy gov who came to London with his family to buy gold for his swearing in ceremony. Please don't ask me for source. Just trust me.

[RAYNOSA]

Originally Posted by salstep

I emailed Oshiomhole campign about this last thursday. I cant believe they haven't at least taken the site down. Then again the PDP web administrator may have changed the password before he left.

Make you dey waste time send email how many response you don get.One thing is for sure responses from most Nigerian based site is ZERO.
Salsteps perhaps they have still not recovered from the election victory party hangover.
Please send a mail directly to our dear "Commrade Governor" via
adams@oshiomhole.com

Cheers

[Auspicious]

Some of the same persons who are still busy telling anyone who believes their opata {that Obasanjo -- that disgrace of a President -- was good for us, despite the obvious} are the ones dismissing an Oshiomole who so far appears to have his head screwed-on right - unlike the others.

I am for Adams Oshiomole speaking his mind very well about his plans and policies for his Edo State. Ain't nothing wrong with a sitting Governor speaking to the Press about his plans for his people in a manner that seeks to encourage same people to support his government.

This are the kind of men we should be supporting, not deriding.

Better Oshiomole than Obasanjo..

I am Auspicious.