KALESANWA
His Excellency,
Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa
The Executive Governor,
Ondo State.
Your Excellency,
Ondo Primary Election 2024: The Morning After
It was a long night that ended in a victorious dawn, yet I have to write to give you
updates from our last primary election in which the Kalesanwa group played a
decently active role to support your aspiration and also ensure your deserved
victory. Our participation was made possible by your outstanding virtues, capped
by our people’s support and cooperation.
We went into the contest with high hopes in a quest to deliver our very
downtrodden people, victims of bad governance with no hope of deliverance in
sight, from the few that have formed the tail wagging the dog of affairs of our
beleaguered State.
From 1999 to date, political activities in Ondo State, have been filled with much
pains and little gains. We can only thank God we are still here, despite all odds.
The resources are enormous, the manpower is available and the business climate
is right for great yields. All we need, as a people, are selfless leadership to harness
all we have, to the benefit of all.
It was in view of these that we decided to channel part of our God-given
resources, natural and material, to support your course so that we can correct a
system that has all the while presented itself a hell for our people.
We started from a humble beginning with a lot of doubts and fears. However, your
temperament, diligence, perseverance and patience restored confidence in
us and that has brought all of us thus far.
Although our State is not where we all hope it should be, we are confident that
with modest men of integrity, like you in the saddle, there is hope of a
shining light at the end of the tunnel.
It is in view of this that we will implore you to see the victory at the last primary as
a collective victory for the people . The primary has come and gone and we
have to now come together again to face the bigger challenges ahead, which
are the main election and the other elections coming up in another two years.
This is the time to embark on aggressive reconciliation drive that will bring all dissenting
voices back into the fold and assuage every frail nerves.
We implore your Excellency to take a thorough and selfless analysis of our society and
co-opt all credible sons and daughters of our beloved State into your coming
government.
We believe we should be consistent in taking assured steps, believing that with more grit
and God’s guidance, we shall collectively achieve our dreams. This we hope to attain
through you and other indigenous people, who share in our quest to bequeath a just,
egalitarian and economic viable society that will guarantee a healthy living of the human
race.
Let us sought the cooperation of men and women, people of all clans, of varying faith,
religion, creed and class, friends, volunteers, the oppressed; who view the oppressors
with disdain, the oppressors, who in turn see the oppressed as irritants; which resulted
in a perpetual conflict that has made life in Ondo State a hell for the oppressed and a
furnace for the oppressors.
The unfolding at the last primary election should prepare us better for the major election
and the envisaged victory that will lead to a fresh four year tenure.
Our people have demonstrated through your last victory that they are determined to
liberate themselves from the chain of oppression that has made development a mirage in
a State flowing with milk and honey. We saw a people who presented themselves as
deprived and wanted liberation.
To this end, my group also gave in our best; we ran a very educative and purposeful
campaign. We talked to the consciousness of the educated, the illiterates, the high and
the peasants. We toured the cities and villages, preaching the gospel of good governance
through selflessness, transparency, equity, justice and egalitarianism, we believe your
government would bring.
We educated the people to, for once, vote to their conscience
and eschew falling for cheap inducements that formed baits with which they are being
robbed of their destinies in the past. Our messages cut across farmsteads, villages and
the cities.
We relied on the people and went to the polls, still relying on them to do their
beat.
At the end of the exercise, the voice of the majority of voters came loud and clear. The
people of our party in Ondo State chose who they want to lead them into the next
government in you. My wish for us is all the best on the path we have confidently
chosen.
But it is not yet Uhuru.
We still have a lingering pathetic situation where leaders in government are yet to wake
up to their assigned responsibilities. All our industries are moribund and our youth are out there in the cold, jobless and helpless.
Ondo State has been home of peace and development because we are hospitable,
energetic and harmonious. The insensitivity of the entrenched circuit governance, has
only berthed favouritism and injustice, even as successive government make out to the
world that all is well with us, in the face of lingering agony that our people are passing
through.
In the words of Vaclav Havel, we should “work for something because it is good, not
just because it stands a chance to succeed.”
Today, I speak from the bottom of my heart, against the growing frustration of the
people of Ondo State; a State where life is becoming as worthless as a cockroach on the
sidewalk and where the reigning socio-political order is a hangman.
While congratulating you for the well-deserved victory, I will still reiterate that you
should not relent in the resolve to bequeath a better future for our dear State.
Let us
continue to making efforts to peacefully mobilize our citizens towards the people’s
sovereignty and the full independence, as a State of one people, one history, one culture,
one love, one heritage and one philosophy.
Not only do we hold the dream of a better Ondo State in our heart, we are always ready
to join hands with you and your government to make it a reality.
We are humbled by your tireless dedication. It inspires us daily.
Moyosola Niran-Oladunni
Convener
