The Ogun State Governor, Prince
Dapo Abiodun’s first 100 days in office is being trailed by indigenes of the
state with mixed-reactions.
Abiodun’s first 100 days in
office was marked on Friday, September 6, amidst pomp and pageantry.
The highlight of events marking
the day was the donation of 100 patrol vans and 200 motorcycles to the police
in Ogun State. The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, was in Ogun to
commission the items.
Same day, the governor also
launched a soft loan empowerment programme for traders in the state, titled
‘Oko owo Dapo’.
In the same vein, he gave out
loans and acres of land to youths as a way of making agriculture attractive to
them.
However, there have been knocks
on the governor for what the masses described as his inability to fulfill some
important aspects of his campaign promises.
Few days before and after his
inauguration, Abiodun was quoted as saying he would commission some projects to
mark his first 100 days in office.
As reported, the governor
promised to commission 236 primary health centres in each of the 236 wards in
Ogun; while also promising to commission 236 public schools in each of the 236
wards in the state.
Abiodun also promised to
commission 60 rural roads across the state; that is three roads in each of the
20 local governments in Ogun.
The governor also promised to
make education free in all public schools across the state.
In a statement, the Chief Press
Secretary to Gov Abiodun, Kunle Somorin, said the governor’s promises in
respect of the 236 schools and hospitals, as well as the 60 rural roads had
been fulfilled.
Somorin, after itemising some
Abiodun’s achievements within hundred days without having to ground core
governance, ended his statement by saying:
“These have been Governor Dapo
Abiodun’s efforts to reset governance in Ogun to what techies would call
‘factory setting’ (what it was designed and ought to be) from the personal
deplorable tweaking of the immediate past. Interestingly, he has done so
without disrupting or having to ground core functions or ‘default setting’, so
much that even if 100 Days in Office is reduced to the kind of symbolism ( that
is, pomp and pageantry attached to 100 days celebration by commissioning
buildings or structures) mentioned in the opening of this piece, he has
achieved it too; although more as a side attraction than the main plan. They
include: the renovation of 236 primary schools and 236 primary healthcare
centres in the state, representing one school in each ward. Three roads per
local government have also been repaired.”
But indigenes of Ogun State said
Abiodun had failed to deliver on his campaign promises as far as the schools
and health centres are concerned.
While some said he had started
repairing or palliating roads across the state, others opined that the governor
is doing more of road repairs in Ogun East than other zones, especially Ogun
West.
Speaking, the
Labour Party in Ogun State said, “Dapo Abiodun came into office with tons of
promises, that among very many include, rehabilitation of public schools across
the State, immediate payment of pensioners, building of health care facilities
across the state, renovation of roads, a quick re-addressed positive security
in the state; it should be noted that the security situation in the state has
become alarmingly worse. These are some of the promises he made at his
swearing-in ceremony.”
“He failed woefully in all of
these. This his first 100 days in office is a mind-boggling failure. He has
logged catalogue of mis-steps depicting serious lack of direction. His govt has
been loaded with misdirection; a govt without motion.”
“Till today, he has no Executive Cabinet
in place as a result of the puppeteering by the Political Goliaths who
manipulated him into office.”
“But he was quick to set up
useless and unproductive committees all over the place; borrowed N7bn in his
first week in office. Even the most daft in Ogun State knows that Dapo Abiodun
and his ‘Ponzi Scheme’ government is a disaster.”
Arabambi spoke further, “In
addition to the foregoings, it is sad that some of his very sheepish followers
could think that signing OGROMA and MAUSTECH bills into law are achievements.
These untenable scores by the stomach-infrastructured elements celebrate
distribution of relief materials to flood victims, an invisible palliative work
on imagined roads, hoping to revoke the most appreciated legacy project by the
citizens, commercially friendly Itoku Adire Mall in Abeokuta and so many other
“we shall” on paper claims.
“Should one talk about Dapo
Abiodun and his government’s scheme to cause violence across the state by
illegally imposing his political yes-men on the elected Transport Executives in
the state; the attempt to desecrate the institution of traditional Obas in the
State? By and large, the state has been sentenced to a very pitiful governance
by evil federal forces. For as long as it takes the judiciary to remove the
pretending governor, Ogun State is on auto pilot.”
One Mr Bayo Osiyemi also
condemned the alleged cancellation of free education in Ogun State by Abiodun,
saying, “It is not cheery at all to have reneged on a campaign promise to
provide free education in the state, 100 days after assuming a four-year term
as governor. Does that show that the governor did not do his homework well
before promising free education during his electioneering campaign?
“Why should the state government
go back on its promise to offer free education, the basis on which the
education-hungry citizens of Ogun State voted for the APC? Was sufficient home
work not done before the promise was freely given during the rancorous
electioneering in the state.?”
Concerted efforts
to speak with Somorin was not successful. However, calls made to his line timed out, after which
he messaged our correspondent to sent him a text.
He is yet to reply to the text
message sent to him, neither has he called back, hours before this report was
filed.
Meanwhile, the Senior Special
Assistant to the governor of Ogun State on New Media, Emmanuel Ojo said, “I can
assure you that a practicable step will be taken in order to ensure that our
people are not subjected to any form of hardship under Gov Abiodun.”
Also, Ogun State All Progressives
Congress Youth League, (APCYL), has applauded Abiodun “over his achievement
after clocking 100 days in office.”
Comrade Olamide Lawal, the group
Coordinator while addressing journalists in Abeokuta, said ”We are happy that
in 100 days, you have proved yourself to be a true administrator and strategist
per excellence.
”It is indisputable that you
started the process of governance in Ogun state as a true democrat who was
desirous of taking the people to the next level of all-round development.”
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