IN CASE WE FORGET (PT.1)

The kind of government we had between 1999-2003 under His Excellency, Aremo Olusegun Osoba was such that gave preference to the rural development. Villages and suburb towns witnessed high presence of government activities and programmes. Hardly will you find any village without the "presence" of Aremo Osoba's led government hand. Roads, water, electrification, health care centres were major projects that got the attention of the Osoba led government. These projects were not only initiated, majority of these projects were completed and delivered before the end of Aremo Osoba last year in office. Except for paying salaries of civil servants, little did the elite/urban areas got desired attention of the Osoba administration. I remember the popular saying of that time "Osoba S'ogbe d'igboro, o s'ogboro d'igbe". During the build up to the 2003 election, Osoba believed so much that "his works" will speak for him at the polls not minding/remembering his political blunders he has committed through his utterances to individuals and organised labour. At a point when it was getting clear to Osoba that he his going to loose the 2003 return to the government house, a state-wide broadcast was organised and people can't imagine the pains he was going through so much that a sitting governor was causing the voters that didn't vote for him (Adabi). The rest is now history!!!