ADESOLA YAQUB

  Please permit me a space in your newspapers to lend my voice on an article on your dailies, published on the 28th October, 2022, titled “Okey Oramah: The Calm in Global Business’ Storm” by a guest columnist. The author depicted our world as though, an abode of endless possibilities, an enclosure of multiple turbulence, both natural and man-made. But alas, in all these adversaries, mother nature has endowed man with capacity and intellect to rule his territory, confront his challenges and transform for greater good. Once in a long while, great people rise and stand above all worthless tendencies of pettiness and flesh greed. They lunch into humanity to deliver influence and shoot for greatness. They deliver a rare kind of leadership through service and they uphold service to excellence through diligence and ingenuity. Okey Oramah belongs in this class. A renowned change agent, silent revolutionary and an achiever of international repute, with a trial blazing record of excellence a...

  Tinubu was asked 10 questions during his interactive session at Chatham House but Tinubu did something strange before answering the questions. Tinubu before taking on the questions said he has a team and the questions will be answered by not just him but also by some members of his team which hopefully will form the next government. Tinubu went on to answer 4 of the questions leaving Governor El-Rufai, Femi Gbajabiamila, Betta Edu, Wale Edun, Dele Alake and Ben Ayade to take on one each of the remaining 6 questions. The Tinubu administration when he was Lagos State Governor had a similar approach to governance as Tinubu allowed his commissioners bring up ideas for deliberation and eventual implementation. Tinubu idea of governance is quite a strange one but an effective one as it worked perfectly in Lagos State and has continued to work with successive governors of Lagos State. The President can't be everywhere and this is why Tinubu believes in having a team that can be everywhe...

  ALAKE ADEYEMO: A UNIQUE POLITICAL BRAND (28TH MAY, 2019) The “Great Man Theory” of leadership assumes that the capacity for leadership is inherent and that great leaders are born. It teaches us that leaders are exceptional people, born with innate qualities destined to lead. In a few hours, on the 29th of May, 2019 precisely, our father and elder statesman, Sir Moses Alake Adeyemo, shall wind down and bow out after serving meritoriously as the Deputy Governor of Oyo State for eight good years. A position that providence and destiny thrust on his lap at a time when he thought he has given enough in service to humanity. One position that has put him into various delicate and dangerous tests and queries before the people he serves and even God. Our joy is that Elder Alake did not fail in his duty. This is not a partisan patronage and those who know my political lining cannot agree less. A 1979 graduate of University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Sir Moses Alake, an indigene of Igboho, ...

  RE: OLANIYAN DECIDED TO BE SMART, WE SHOWED HIM WE ARE SMARTER (14/11/2022) We read with amazement another stage-managed interview of Hon. Dayo Ogungbenro, the chairman of the Oyo State chapter of the PDP, made public on Sunday 13 th November, 2022, where among other things he reiterated all the already known half-truths   and super-hyped pseudo-achievements of the Governor Seyi Makinde led administration in Oyo State, forgetting well that the good people of Oyo State are wise and politically savvy enough to identify a well packaged scam even when properly coloured as real and cannot be taken for granted into a repeat of a missionless trip into futility. After rigorous blabbing about a not-coming second term , the non-ending crisis of the Oyo PDP and an ass-licking position on Ayu/Atiku imbroglio, the chairman took a field day in highlighting how he and his co-travelers are smarter than the then Deputy Governor, His Excellency, Engr. Rauf Olaniyan in the political crisi...

  THE GIDEON AREMU THAT WE DON'T KNOW !! The present political situation in the land can best be described as a 'jankara' market (a black-market sort of) whereby any product goes for as long as money comes in. But even at that, the few who are equipped with age long antecedence and who can still reason and see, will still pass a fair, mild and accurate judgment and as such, take their decision in the good side of posterity. I have known Gideon Aremu, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for the Oyo State House Assembly election coming up on Saturday, the 11th of April 2015, since in the 90s. He was a year ahead of me at the highly exalted Irepo Grammar School, Igboho, where he graduated in 1993 with a record that called for the envy of many. He was a very intelligent student with a very abnormal and scary skill, Further Mathematics was his best subject and he, with the combined efforts of his co-scholars then, influenced a lot of students then, especially, in the science...

  WE RAISED THE BAR OF GOVERNANCE AND RESET LEADERSHIP STANDARDS IN OORELOPE LG (31/7/2021) It is imperative that we engage after months of loud silence because in silence one cannot be misquoted and for those who listen carefully, silence has a lot to say. The momentary hibernation has given us yet another opportunity to reinvent our energy towards productive conversation on our political philosophy and in the pursuit of good governance, only for those who yearn for development and know the meaning of leadership. In retrospect, the dynamics of politics in Oyo State and in Oorelope Local Government in particular, is interesting and most often defies all known globally acceptable principles and norms. That is the historical reality of the ancient town, Igboho, that headquarters the Local Government. I owe a huge load of gratitude to our leader, His Excellency, Governor Seyi Makinde, the Executive Governor of Oyo State, for giving me the privilege to serve my people as the Caretaker ...

 *THE MANY GAINS OF FOLARIN’S VISIT TO OKE-OGUN* The timing of the just concluded tour and political consultations embarked upon in the Oke-Ogun geo-political zone of the state, by the Distinguished Senator Teslim Folarin, flagbearer and gubernatorial candidate of our great party, the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) Oyo State, could not have been more appropriate.  With a basketful of gains, excitement and total turnaround, the tour could only be described indeed as a total success. The tour which preceded the commencement of campaigns proper was embarked upon by leaders and stakeholders of the party to, among other things, showcase our candidates, have extensive consultations, far reaching grassroots engagements, furthering efforts on reconciliation, familiarization with party members as well as seeking royal and spiritual blessings all across the zone. The trip which started from Ibadan on Monday 26th September 2022 was led by our amiable father and leader, His Excellency I...

 RE: NGF RETREAT AND SEYI MAKINDE’S INGLORIOUS OUTING A gentleman (or is it a lady) who operates in anonymity and with a fictitious name in the social media space, as the “EAGLE EYE”, took it upon himself to assassinate the character of the Oyo State governor-elect, Engineer Seyi Makinde, trying to drag him into the mud, to malign him, to prematurely distract him, to drag him into their gutter politics and to create a collision course between his administration and the good people of Oyo State, even right from embryo. In a badly written, ill-informed release by the “EAGLE EYE”, adorned with terrible spellings and bad intent, titled as stated above, he made mention of Seyi Makinde stepping into “shoes bigger than his feet”. He fingered out his “vulnerability”, “indecorous nature” and “deficiencies in public speaking”, as well as so many other unprintable phrases, far out of context of acceptability and realm of constructive criticism. He even queried if our governor-elect is “well r...

 TASOOLO: BETWEEN AMBITION, FATE AND STATESMANSHIP The last 48 hours have been very dramatic and revealing to me as a man and as a politician, returning me to that important teaching of the of the Holy Quran which says “With Him are the keys of the invisible. None but He knows them. And He knows what is in the land and the sea. Not a leaf falls but He knows it, not but a grain amid the darkness of the earth, nor anything green or withered but is recorded in a clear book” (Quran 6:59)  I have a vision on serving humanity and I have committed my entire life growing it. I have put my best learning the rope, taking tutelage, seeking knowledge and strategically positioning myself to the realization of my dreams and aspiration. But Allah is the final decider. And only God knows the time and the hour, I do not know but definitely, THE TIME HAS NOT COME! The waves of the results of the presidential and national assembly election conducted on the 23rd of February, 2019, in Oyo state, n...