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As if he was already preparing for 2015
presidential campaign, Yemi Osinbajo, the
vice-presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), as far back as
August 2014 defended charges of religious
extremism against Muhammadu Buhari.
Buhari has now won the party’s presidential
nomination and picked Osinbajo as his running
mate.
Responding to an attack on Rauf Aregbesola,
governor of Osun state, in his re-election,
Osinbajo reserved special praise for Buhari for
his handling of religion when he was military
head of state.
He asked that credit should be given “to Gen
Buhari, and his deputy Gen Idiagbon (also a
muslim) who refused to join the OIC despite
pressures”.
Nigeria’s membership of the Organisation of
Islamic Conference (OIC) resulted in a
controversy, pitching Muslims and Christians
against each other and stoking religious
tension in the country.
He said Buhari “remains the one head of State
who was able to defeat an extremist
insurgency, the Maitatsine” ─ referring to the
religious uprising in Kano in 1980 when
President Shehu Shagari was in power.
Osinbajo also commented on various national
issues, which were probably a pointer to the
fact that he was preparing to dive into the
political terrain.
THE FULL TEXT IS REPRODUCED
BELOW.
I was greatly saddened to read the material
written by Mr. Eyieyien urging “The Remnants”
to vote out the current Governor of Osun State
Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and vote in Chief Iyiola
Omisore. I am also still somewhat puzzled as
to how what appeared to be an opposition to a
bond issue and other sundry allegations
degenerated to the running down of the APC as
an Islamic party, a propaganda tool notoriously
deployed by the PDP through its various
organs.
Are we as Christians now being urged to
support the PDP or what exactly is the
message? Reason is one of the most important
contributions of the Gospel to development.
From it emerged the practical concepts of
fairness and justice for all, especially our
enemies. Which is why lynching, even of an
intellectual kind, is unacceptable.
I am not an unbiased intervenor. I had the good
fortune of serving in an AD/ACN government in
Lagos State. The ACN is a major partner in the
APC. I will come back to the PDP APC issue
presently.
Also, I have known Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola,
Governor of the State of Osun, since 1999. We
served on the policy committees of the then
newly elected AD governor of Lagos State. He
served in the infrastructure sub-committee and
I, in the Justice sub-committee. I also served
with him for 8 years in the government of Lagos
State. He as Commissioner for Works and I as
Attorney General. I developed a close personal
relationship with him. His early ideological
belief was shaped by Marxist-Socialist
thinking, which probably influences his left-of-
centre worldview in governance. His first son
Kabir went to university in Cuba on a
scholarship. In 2005 when he graduated, only
Rauf and I attended his graduation. He is a
devout Muslim but liberal in his approach to
other faiths. This is not unusual amongst the
Yorubas largely because most families have
both Muslim and Christian members and have
always interacted without rancour. Of his six
siblings only one other is a Muslim. All the
others are Christians. His sister who is of the
RCCG is widowed (her husband died a
Christian) her two sons have lived with Rauf for
years, he insists that they must practice their
father’s faith faithfully. They both attend the
RCCG.
He and I shared and still share a burden to
provide honest, transparent, people-centered
governance. He is a scrupulously honest
person, as Commissioner for Works in Lagos
State he left office without a home and no
financial comforts. I know, because aside from
my personal and official interaction with him, I
coordinated his legal team for the reclamation
of his mandate for over three years. I know
first-hand, his difficulties with sustaining his
family, and a small staff for that period. Not
surprisingly no one can accuse him in Osun
State of corruption. He is just not wired that
way.
Indeed, in keeping with that commitment to
serve the people with complete fidelity, his
major projects have been solely directed at
alleviating the suffering and deprivation of his
people. The hiring of, now 40,000 unemployed
graduates, the provision of free balanced meals
for all primary school children, provision of free
uniforms, the provision of tablet computers for
senior secondary school students containing
all their textbooks, past jamb questions etc.,
monthly stipends to the elderly – all of these in
a State that is the third poorest in Federal
allocations and currently gets N2.6 billion
monthly, a 40 percent reduction from 2013,
courtesy of the Federal government. Mr.
Eyieyien perhaps was not aware that even the
10 billion sukuk bond was purely for the
building of 24 model state-of the art schools,
most of which are now completed. The Wole
Soyinka-led Osun education summit
recommended the replacement of the
completely broken school infrastructure in Osun
State with schools capable of accommodating
1000 students with modern labs, classrooms,
power and sports facilities. The idea was to use
economies of scale to benefit the largest
number of students.
When Mr. Eyieyien describes him as “Sheikh” it
is clearly to give the impression that he is an
Islamic fundamentalist. The facts on the man
completely belie this. First, as Commissioner
for Works in Lagos State, he built the chapel at
the State House Marina. Pastor Adeboye at the
opening commended him and remarked that he
would be a pastor soon! Within a year of
coming into government, he commissioned in
Ilesa the Open Heavens Christian Evangelical
Arena, a purpose-built facility for evangelism
which according to him was to celebrate the
icons of the Christian faith who are from Osun
namely- the Late Apostle Babalola , the Late
Apostle Obadare, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, Pastor
W.F Kumuyi and Pastor Mathew Ashimolowo .
Today, his government supports the
establishment of five Christian universities in
Osun, including The Redeemers University at
Ede, the Joseph Babalola University, Dominion
University , and Bowen University.
How about the composition of government in
Osun State? You will notice that his critics are
never able to say that Christians are
marginalised in government, why? Because
only Muslims can make that allegation! In the
Cabinet of Osun State there are 10 more
Christians than Muslims. In addition, the
largest Ministries are headed by Christians –
Ministries of Finance, Justice, Education,
Health, Environment , Agriculture, Physical
Planning and Youth and Sports. The Legislature
(House of Assembly), which came into office
after he won back his mandate in court in
November 2010, has a majority of Christian
members – 18 Christians and 8 Muslims.
Everyone knows that at that level if the
Governor does not support your nomination by
the party your ambitions are dead in the water.
The State Judiciary is headed by a Christian
who he appointed although he had preferred
and proposed a judge from Lagos Justice
Olubunmi Oyewole also a non-Muslim. Of over
30 new Permanent Secretaries appointed by
him 22 are Christians. If the majority of your
cabinet (including your Attorney-General), your
Legislature, Judiciary and top echelon of your
civil service are Christians how can we in truth
say that such a person has an Islamisation
agenda? Surely the least a “Sheikh” with an
Islamisation agenda should do to achieve his
objective is to populate the structure that can
achieve that objective with Muslims! It is also
entirely false that he patronizes or uses
“TAAWUN” guards for his security. It is
common knowledge that he hardly even uses
any security at all, except for a couple of SSS
men, his monthly LIFE WALKS , where he walks
alongside his people for kilometres without any
significant security cordon was commended
recently by a former Governor in the South East.
It is incredible what prejudice can do to us.
Everyone in Osun knows that the State was
nicknamed “State of the Living Spring” in
reference to the Osun River after which the
State is named. Renaming the State “the
Omoluabi State ” – meaning “the State of
children born of God” or “the State of men and
women of virtue” certainly gives greater glory
to God.
To suggest that benefiting from a Sukuk bond to
better the lives of his people of all faiths, is
enough to justify the grave allegation of an
Islamisation agenda, is with all due respect ,
calling a dog a bad name simply to hang it. I
agree that it may have served the politics of
religion better not to take the bond, but it is a
fairer judgment of his motives, knowing him,
that this was borne out of his desire to serve
his people well. The 24 mega schools with
state-of -the art facilities is a quantum leap in
education for the majority of children of the
poor who before now schooled in what the
Soyinka committee saw as scandalous. The
alternative was not to build the schools. When
a man who is doing right by the poor and
deprived people he governs, is being
condemned by those of us who are called to
serve the poor, the sick, , the naked, and the
hungry then it is fair to ask what the values in
governance we really intend to promote are? In
any event the alternative is Chief Iyiola
Omisore whose antecedents we ought, to put it
delicately, be cautious to associate with.
A problem with uncritically accepting as useful
advice this viciously anti-APC propaganda, is
that it throws the baby out with the bath water.
So we are now expected to reject the landmark
achievements in Lagos, in Ogun ( the huge
infrastructural developments), Oyo (which for
the first time most admit is making real
progress) , Edo, and Ekiti (where almost
everyone agrees the governor did a good job
but Fayose understood stomach infrastructure
better!) Or now Kano or Rivers (where a REAL
rail service is about to begin; Lagos is also
about to complete a rail service amongst other
exemplary achievements)!
It is also false that the APC’s new executive
reserved its top positions for Muslims! The
Chairman of the party Chief John Odigie-
Oyegun is a Christian, the Deputy National
Chairman (South) Engr. Segun Oni is a
Christian, so are the National Organizing
Secretary Senator Osita Izunaso, Deputy
National Secretary Hon. Orji Ugofa and Chief
Pius Akinyelure , theVice Chairman of the South
West. For what it is worth, there are 22
Muslims and 21 Christians in the APC National
Executive Committee.
Regarding the rather thinly veiled ‘support the
PDP/ JONATHAN’ message, it is incredible that
we are invited to ignore the cynical manner that
our President Goodluck Jonathan uses
Christianity and the church to further his
political ambitions. Why are we being urged to
support a PDP/Jonathan bid again? The
platform has largely on account of its tragic
failure to perform, decided to exploit Nigeria’s
religious fault lines in the most cynical manner
to win support, in the process he continues to
divide Nigeria in by the far most extreme
manner in our history.
I have worked with many brethren since 2002
on issues around Islamization in Nigeria, in
particular with Revd. Ladi Thompson of the
Macedonian Initiative and the Omoluabi
network. It is clear that Al Qaeda, ISIS , and
more recently Boko Haram and their splinters
are committed to an Islamization agenda. Their
symphathisers certainly cut across all
boundaries. The Late General Azazi, then NSA,
pointedly accused the PDP of being behind the
escalation of Boko Haram, I have that
statement on DVD. The President, also openly
lamented the infiltration of his cabinet by the
Boko Haram. Recently a Nigerian pastor in a
widely circulated CD, speaking on the Jihadist
agenda accused General Babangida of funding
the Islamization agenda from his days as
President. Today President Jonathan’s most
influential Northern supporter is General
Babangida. His narrative unfortunately gives no
credit to Gen Buhari, and his deputy Gen
Idiagbon (also a muslim) who refused to join
the OIC despite pressures. Or that Gen Buhari
remains the one head of State who was able to
defeat an extremist insurgency, the Maitatsine.
How can we fail to see that the incredible
corruption, incompetence, poverty of 2/3 of our
people after almost seven years of the present
government is unsupportable? How is it that
Diezani’s use of 10 billion Naira to run her
private jet (the same amount of money for the
building of 24 mega schools in Osun!) and the
complete silence of the President on this
travesty does not lead to calling for him to be
voted out in 2015? So the allegation of the
missing or unaccounted for 20.8 billion USD
with 110 million desperately poor, should be
dismissed as pure propaganda? So it doesn’t
make a difference to us that under the PDP
Nigeria has fallen behind in every human
development indicator? 55,000 women dying
yearly of maternal related ailments, only
recently Stanford’s Professor Larry Diamond
compared the yearly deaths of over 300,000
children yearly in Nigeria to the killing of 800,
000 mainly Tutsis in Rwanda. The latter was
described as genocide, what is the description
to give to mass deaths of infants caused by
grand corruption?
We discredit our treasured platforms such as
this when we mask our political preferences
with a religious veil. The vast majority of our
people need to be delivered from terrible want
and deprivation, what is required now are
capable, honest men and women of all faiths,
who know that this country may not long
survive the daily punishment of its own people.

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.....what a vibrant VP!!!

That's an intellectual Governor unlike.....


some pple without shoe & clue ;DThat's an intellectual Governor unlike.....


some pple without shoe & clue