I was in consternation when I read the report credited to the Mr Muthalubi Ojo that Governor Seyi Makinde social media handlers are lairs but after pondering on the allegations and the motives behind it, I knew our big Uncle has chosen to mislead the unsuspecting public due to partisanship.
This is another reason why politics has greatly demeaned the integrity of the Nigerian Judicial system because some of our revered learned fellows have also succumbed to the weakness of the system; biases, stomach infrastructure and lack of integrity. I would have expected Mr Muthalubi Ojo to do a more thorough research into this issue before pronouncing judgment against the innocent Social Media guys.
THE FAMILY COURT INAUGURATION: Mr Muthalubi Ojo has allowed partisanship compromise his assessment of this issue. It would have been innocent mistake if Mr Ojo tried to find out the true situation of the family court from the Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Abimbola before claiming the media guys lied. Justice Abimbola in his speech confirmed that nothing was done before now, since the bill was passed into law in 2006. Yes, Justice Abimbola made efforts for the inauguration last year but was not successful. The question now is: was the family court ever inaugurated before? That Governor Ajimobi paid for a building doesn’t make the building a court. Even without being a learned lawyer, I know it’s the judiciary personnel and their duties that make a building or shelter court, hence we have mobile courts in vehicles too.
GOVERNOR MAKINDE AND OLD PROJECTS: Governor Seyi Makinde has affirmed several times that his administration is committed to completing good projects initiated by past administrations in the interest of the people and this shouldn’t be cause of controversy. With over two hundred projects completed by first anniversary of this administration and many more still ongoing, then there is no need to suspect prevarication in this matter. This project was neither initiated by present nor the immediate past administration of late Governor Ajimobi and the fact that the administration attempted to do something about it didn’t translate to ownership of the project. Rather than call innocent people liars, I think Mr Muthalubi Ojo should have blamed Ajimobi administration for leaving so much uncompleted projects despite spending eight years in office.
THE TRUTH BE TOLD: Rather than complete many laudable projects initiated or embarked upon by the (Ajimobi) adminstration, I think the former helmsman was distracted with personal projects and aggrandizements. Governor Seyi Makinde rightly described the late Governor as the architect of great projects that this administration is building on and I believe that’s enough
for sincere members of the public to know Engr Seyi Makinde is not contending to be architect with Ajimobi, he has simply gone ahead to be the builder of structures initiated by the architect.
Finally, Mr Ojo has not proven beyond reasonable doubt that Gov Seyi Makinde’s social media handlers are embarrassing him and one can’t help but wonder if Governor Makinde complained to him or anyone about any of these two subjects of contention. I would advice Mr Ojo to join the social media too, so that he can get more informed on things as they happen in Oyo state.
