On Saturday, I had such amazing time asking questions and allowing the representatives of the PDP Candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore and that of the incumbent Governor of State of Osun, APC's Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola trade words and have a bit of a #ShoutMatch. Each time it seems to be getting out of hand I play the puppeteer and stopped them. When they go on for a bit longer, I threatened to put an end to the conversation because its becoming a #ShoutMatch.
I asked the DG of Omisore Campaign Organization what his principal has on his manifesto, offering the good people of Osun. He have a 5-point agenda that has Education, Agriculture and Infrastructure Development on it. The unfortunate part of this kind of conversation is that you never get the details of how these 5-point agenda will be achieved, especially details of where the money will come from, considering there is limit to what the state generates (IGR) and what it gets from Federation Account (FAAC).
But it was interesting to see how excited each of the representatives were when it was time for them to shoot down the achievements of the incumbent or the track record of the other candidates.
At the end of the segment, Alero, my co-presenter said we didn't want a fight in the studio, and all of them in unison said, "no way", we are all friends, all that argument is just politics and argument for television.
The one word that seemed to have gained a life of its own since the Ekiti Election is #StomachInfrastructure and it was mentioned in the same breath with bags of rice, which made me wonder if this has now become the norm. Is it a case of how big your bag of rice is that determines your number of votes now or how you cater for #StomachInfrastructure.
We will have to wait and see how things pan out come the August Election in the State of Osun. One's prayer and hope will continue to be that there will be a huge turn out, the people will vote, not for popularity or #StomachInfrastructure, but rather for manifesto that make sense and can deliver gains of democracy for the good people of Osun.
Finally, I can not shout this out loud enough, we have to create a groundswell of voters enlightenment, so that there is a clear link and understanding of the fact that a good choice will determine quality of education, job opportunities, improvement of infrastructure, quality health service and more, while bad choice based on bags of rice and #StomachInfrastructure will lead to poorly equipped hospitals, regular problems of unpaid salaries, corruption that pays back those who delivered the bags of rice and of course impunity.
I asked the DG of Omisore Campaign Organization what his principal has on his manifesto, offering the good people of Osun. He have a 5-point agenda that has Education, Agriculture and Infrastructure Development on it. The unfortunate part of this kind of conversation is that you never get the details of how these 5-point agenda will be achieved, especially details of where the money will come from, considering there is limit to what the state generates (IGR) and what it gets from Federation Account (FAAC).
But it was interesting to see how excited each of the representatives were when it was time for them to shoot down the achievements of the incumbent or the track record of the other candidates.
At the end of the segment, Alero, my co-presenter said we didn't want a fight in the studio, and all of them in unison said, "no way", we are all friends, all that argument is just politics and argument for television.
The one word that seemed to have gained a life of its own since the Ekiti Election is #StomachInfrastructure and it was mentioned in the same breath with bags of rice, which made me wonder if this has now become the norm. Is it a case of how big your bag of rice is that determines your number of votes now or how you cater for #StomachInfrastructure.
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