He affirmed that the governor had taken the lead among his peers in the area of infrastructure as manifested in the spate of developments the state has recorded in the last seven and a half years of his government.
Oba Akanbi, who stated this while playing host Aregbesola and his entourage who were on a goodwill visit to Iwo Federal Constituency as part of activities marking the All Progressives Congress (APC) visitation tours to the nine Federal Constituencies in the state maintained that it was obvious that the present administration had brought dividends of democracy to every household in the state.
According to the monarch, “I am not a politician and I am not being sentimental about what I am about to say, among all the governors and leaders in Nigeria, Aregbesola has redefined governance, he has brought a paradigm shift to governance in the country and he has brought a change to leadership in our land.”
“He has shown us the way it should be done and I strongly think others should take a cue from this; I so much love Aregbesola and the All Progressives Congress because they hate what I hate and they love what I love. I detest corruption and I am happy that the APC too are seriously fighting corruption because it is destructive.”
“I am happy Aregbesola is using government resources to develop the state and not embezzling the funds. I am not a sycophant and also not a praise singer, if Aregbesola has not done well, I will say it but the achievements of this administration are out there for all to see and this is the way it should be done.
“We have never seen an overhead bridge in Osun but now we have several of them to the pride of everybody in the state,” Oba Akanbi remarked.
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Meanwhile, Aregbesola, who later addressed party members and people of Iwo said he had not anointed or endorsed any governorship aspirant on the platform of the APC in the state, affirming that the flag bearer of the party would emerge from primary exercise to be conducted by the leadership of the APC.
He underscored the need for APC members not to relent in their efforts to ensure victory for the party during September 22 governorship election in the state, saying “what happened in the last Osun West Senatorial bye-election which the APC lost should not be allowed to happen again.”
“We are here to inform you on the need to buckle up and sit tight by forming a formidable frontier that will help to take our party to victory in all elections, particularly in forthcoming governorship polls. As we all know, the result of the last Osun West Senatorial Bye-Election in the state was not too palatable for our party and we don’t want this to repeat itself,” Aregbesola posited.
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