An African
Democratic Congress (ADC) gubernatorial aspirant in Oyo state, Barrister
Sarafadeen Abiodun Alli has declared that past governors who have ruled the
state failed because they had no knowledge of the problems the people of the
state had been facing.
The
ex-Chairman, Odu’a Investment Company Limited who said that, “The best mode of
governance in modern times is the integration of community development system”,
adding that most of the governors who governed the state in recent times
performed woefully because they were not part of the community, so they would
not know what the people need.
The former
Secretary to the State Government while speaking during a meeting with some
community leaders led by Elder Samuel Agboola in Ibadan, the state capital on
Sunday, said that the major reason governance fails is, “because those who have
been leading us in recent times have never been part of us”.
Alli said,
“In the full spirit of participatory democracy, communities should be the
center of attraction, they know where the shoe pinches, they understand the
roads that are bad, they know the state of the health centers, their children
are in the badly managed schools, and it is not just that they know, they have
the appropriate solutions.
“I know all
these because I have, for years, been a part of community development
programmes.
“And, I have
come to terms to the reason why governance fails, it is because those who have
been leading us in recent times have never been part of us.
Alli while
speaking on the type of people the electorate in the state should vote for
during the 2019 general elections, warned the people against voting people who
don’t know what they are lacking.
He said,
“Imagine someone who studied abroad, worked abroad and coming from the blues to
determine our fate, what does he know about the feelings of people living in
the countryside?
“This is why
it is in our agenda to fashion out a ministry that will adequately address community
development in our state.
Alli told
the gathering that “communities too have an important role to play in the
emergence of candidates that will recognize” their importance in the scheme of
things in the state.
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