Osun State governor, Gboyega Oyetola has been tagged the weakest governor in the history of the state.
An expert in Political Sociology and Conflict Management, Dr John Kolawole, who called on stakeholders to save the state from impending doom, said the governor has not been a help to the state in any manner.
According to him, the level of development witnessed in the state in the last two years has exposed the incapability of the state governor and his team.
In a statement titled ‘Osun in disarray; an urgent call for action’, Kolawole alleged that the performance of Oyetola’s government is deteriorating the state development.
He said, “This Oyetola is obviously bereft of ideas about governance and impeccable administrative strategy, to make matters worse, he further displayed naivety by surrounding himself with people with lesser cognitive strength and professional savvy.
“This Governor’s pattern of appointment is directly proportional to his intelligence quotient. How could a man of that social status surrounded himself with mediocre out of illogical sentiment, thereby putting the state into serious jeorpardy.
“You are approving an appointment of a wife as a Personal Assistant to her husband who is an Attorney General of the state. This is indeed very strange and unbelievable.
“The security of the state is in an unprecedentedly sorry state, as the state is presently in a Hobessian state of nature, where life is short, poor and nasty.
“Unlike previous administrations, Oyetola appointed his like as Special Adviser on Security, who remains inertia when cultists and kidnappers have taken over the state, killing and maiming at will.
“Look at how Governor Seyi Makinde deceived the governor and the two elements he appointed as SA and Commissioner in charge of education, to get the sole ownership of LAUTECH and reneged the so-called agreements they ignorantly signed.
“Critical stakeholders in the Osun project must quickly come to the rescue of the state and salvage the state from a bigger crisis”.
Kolawole, also criticised the governor on construction of a bridge at Ola-iya junction, describing it as a misplaced priority, adding that by the experts’ positions on the axis, the area with urgent intervention is Oke-fia area of the metropolis.
“I read the watery narrative put forward by the Commissioner for Information, one Funke Egbemode, titled: ‘Should We Spill More Blood’ to justify the necessity for the construction of the bridge and wept for the state, we have never had it so bad like this. I couldn’t fathom the state of mind of the Governor at the point he was considering the appointment of Mrs Egbemode.
“The other day, Mr Oyetola was attacked by hoodlums during #Endsars protest, the next thing I would see was his spokesman, Ismail Omipidan, speaking Hausa to explain what happened on that day; it was bizarre as it appeared senseless.
“Those are the characters this governor is parading in Osun. Oyetola seriously needs help”, he said .