Berates abandonment of Ode Omi people in the hands of the deadly militants
Autonomy must be given to Judiciary, State House of Assembly and Local Governments as it was one of the electioneering campaign of President Mohammed Buhari
Ogun State as the gateway state is blessed with so many social amenities and industries cuts across the 20 local government.
Amebo Online News in a tour on the ongoing development met with honorable representing Ogun Waterside at the State House of Assembly, Honorable Harrison Adeyemi who gave our correspondence audience in granting interview at the state capital in Abeokuta laments bitterly about the abandonment of his constituency by the Amosun led administration after he signed agreement with him before he decamped to the All Progressives Congress APC with the beliefs that the governor will embark on meaningful projects to Ogun Waterside.
Can we meet you briefly?
My name is honourable Harrison Adeyemi. I am the House of assembly representative of Ogun waterside at the state house of assembly. I hail from Ogun waterside, I was brought up there. Normally, I am supposed to be Prince Harrison Adeyemi because my dad is the present King of Ibu community of Ogun waterside.
What is your position ahead of the forth coming 2019 elections?
There are lots of questions here and there regarding my withdrawal from the support of Amosun. I was elected in 2011 as a member of the state House of assembly through the platform of PDP. So, when I got to Abeokuta here, the governor invited me and asked me to support them and their party due to one reason or the other because there was conflict between him and Osoba then. Of course with what we were seeing then in the state, I believe what we needed then, is change and we believe what he (Amosun) has been doing then is what the state needs by then. So, we joined the party, we dialogued and came together. Our dialogue was that if I join the party, the governor is going to develop my local government. That is, he was going to tar some roads, roads like Ifire to Ibu community which I had earlier told them. I told him of Togburin and agodo – Lokula road, as well as from Ayila to Itibu Manuwa road. We also discussed the road from Ifire to Imakun. I told him then that my ticket for second term will be given to me. We were about four that joined from PDP, he told me to go and get him support from the others which I did. I did that because I believed what we want from government is the dividends of democracy and that with these, things will be possible. I don’t want a situation whereby the government will be hiding under the disguise that ‘the honourable is not doing anything, the honourable did not join me, the honourable is an opposition, and he doesn’t do anything’. I had to team up. As the first tenure was going to an end, we started contesting, we started campaigning but he did not fulfill his promise by tarring those roads. Before these, I built a school, before building that school, I told them that I want to build a school in Ibu community and that I need the government's approval because, it is my time and i was with the government. There are about five primary schools in that community and the nearest secondary school is about five kilometers, so I felt the school should serve them all. People were very happy when I built the school. I built six classrooms with two offices and two toilets there as a constituency project. Till date, I pay the teachers about #280,000 monthly for the past four years.
Is it a public school?
It is a public school, it is a constituency project. I did it and I am still the one running it, for the fact that we hope the government will approve it in time as a constituency project. So, it is as if we are complementing his effort. We went to him, appealed to him, called Dapo Abiodun and lots of people to him ,even ,Odubela who was commissioner for education then, we met with him and discussed, yet he turned a deaf ear and didn’t do it. Till the last two months when we had a meeting, but, before then, before the elections, I went to him in company with the speaker, Mr. speaker knelt down to beg him that he should approve our school. He promised that day that he would call the commissioner for education to approve that school, but, after we left there, nothing was done about it. That is about three years now, he didn’t do it and he said that after elections, he will attend to rural needs which we agreed. We went into the election, we started campaigning and willingly without anyone forcing him, when we went to campaign at the primary school in Abigi, he told the people that he will tar the roads even before his election and we believed him. As I talk to you, nothing has been done in that regard. So, after our election, at a meeting we told him that ‘governor, you are not helping the situation, it is as if you stand to destroy the image of the party ’. It is as if I am not competent to represent the people of that local government, you shouldn’t abandon that community. He told me he would do something but he didn’t do anything. There was a meeting we held last month, suddenly we saw a message from the speaker that there would be an emergency meeting with the governor ,but, firstly we must assemble in his office before going to the governor. He said we should all put on white cloths, so I was wondering, from waterside I had to drive down to the office to ask them, ‘why should you ask us to wear white dresses?’ Because, that was the time we had issue with commissioner for works, that was when we suspended him. So, we had to get to that place and on getting there, the commissioner for works was already there with some other commissioners. So, he was talking about how we suspended the commissioner, he was even bragging, we just had to exercise patience. We expressed our own side of the matter, he asked the commissioner for works to apologize and he did. The governor appealed to us and we agreed that day that the suspension will be lifted. After the governor introduced that he is interested in taking loans, that was when my annoyance came up, that was when I separated from him. He called us that we should support this loan, we listened, but, it was a shock for all of us except for those that were formerly aware like the speaker. We asked that ‘why this emergency loan since there are other loans he had been involved in, can he explain how he has spent the other loans?’ He tried to maneuver that, he didn’t explain, but, he declared the floor open for questions on his N65.7bn loan. He asked every member to say his mind on the loan and how they feel they will contribute to the loan. When it got to my turn, I told him he was unfair with the people of my local government, that he was a bunch of regret to people of that local government in the sense that since he has been in office, since I have come to the party, I have been supporting him. I have never one day deviated from the loan because I believe it will be of benefit to every one of us, but, I see no reason why it is difficult for him to do any capital project, even 5km road, I see no reason. I told him that it is unfair, I told him to his face in his office. I also spoke about the school he refused to approve, he felt bad and he was annoyed with that statement. By his response and submission, he said he is not interested in the rural areas now, that he cannot abandon central such as Ifo and Ota where there are good votes and go to the rural area to spend his money there and at the same time, the vote from that side does not count. In the presence of us, he said the vote of Ogun East does not count which means a lot to us. That means in his tenure he will not do anything, that means my being with him will not fetch us any benefit in my local government. Then I decided, I accessed my journey with him for six years like I am going to market and an armed robber takes away money from me; I was not killed by the armed robber so I decided to go out and arrange myself, then I decided to dump him because he has nothing to offer my local government, he doesn’t see the vote from my local government as part of his success. So, this is how I decided to just stay away from him and be on my own.
The Two term member of Ogun State House of Assembly and a term councillor has condemned white elephant projects going on in Ogun state most especially bridges and pedestrian walkways in Abeokuta.
However, he said there is no economic importance of the pedestrian walkways as it has been closed since 2015 without anyone plying it. Also he said the bridge under constructions in Abeokuta is of no relevance when Abeokuta is not a swampy area that it's a means of embezzling ogun funds.
He says as I quote:
_I have postrated to the governor publicly which I know it's wrong as a legislature just to remember my constituency in his projects but all he do say is that my constituency votes is irrelevant in Ogun State_
_Ode Omi people are under attacks from the militants and the Lagos State Government sent security boat to kill 16 of the perpetrators, yet Ogun governor has been silent on his people without any press release or official visitation to the affected people and area_
He also vowed not to be part of any legislators to sign any loan whichever after the last one the governor brought to them, makes position known on Judiciary, Local Government and House of Assembly autonomy as a means of cagging the people not to voice out on issues.
He advised the good people of Ogun Waterside both homes and I diaspora to troop out to register for their voters card and decide who becomes the next governor of Ogun State in the upcoming 2019 election.
Autonomy must be given to Judiciary, State House of Assembly and Local Governments as it was one of the electioneering campaign of President Mohammed Buhari
Ogun State as the gateway state is blessed with so many social amenities and industries cuts across the 20 local government.
Amebo Online News in a tour on the ongoing development met with honorable representing Ogun Waterside at the State House of Assembly, Honorable Harrison Adeyemi who gave our correspondence audience in granting interview at the state capital in Abeokuta laments bitterly about the abandonment of his constituency by the Amosun led administration after he signed agreement with him before he decamped to the All Progressives Congress APC with the beliefs that the governor will embark on meaningful projects to Ogun Waterside.
Can we meet you briefly?
My name is honourable Harrison Adeyemi. I am the House of assembly representative of Ogun waterside at the state house of assembly. I hail from Ogun waterside, I was brought up there. Normally, I am supposed to be Prince Harrison Adeyemi because my dad is the present King of Ibu community of Ogun waterside.
What is your position ahead of the forth coming 2019 elections?
There are lots of questions here and there regarding my withdrawal from the support of Amosun. I was elected in 2011 as a member of the state House of assembly through the platform of PDP. So, when I got to Abeokuta here, the governor invited me and asked me to support them and their party due to one reason or the other because there was conflict between him and Osoba then. Of course with what we were seeing then in the state, I believe what we needed then, is change and we believe what he (Amosun) has been doing then is what the state needs by then. So, we joined the party, we dialogued and came together. Our dialogue was that if I join the party, the governor is going to develop my local government. That is, he was going to tar some roads, roads like Ifire to Ibu community which I had earlier told them. I told him of Togburin and agodo – Lokula road, as well as from Ayila to Itibu Manuwa road. We also discussed the road from Ifire to Imakun. I told him then that my ticket for second term will be given to me. We were about four that joined from PDP, he told me to go and get him support from the others which I did. I did that because I believed what we want from government is the dividends of democracy and that with these, things will be possible. I don’t want a situation whereby the government will be hiding under the disguise that ‘the honourable is not doing anything, the honourable did not join me, the honourable is an opposition, and he doesn’t do anything’. I had to team up. As the first tenure was going to an end, we started contesting, we started campaigning but he did not fulfill his promise by tarring those roads. Before these, I built a school, before building that school, I told them that I want to build a school in Ibu community and that I need the government's approval because, it is my time and i was with the government. There are about five primary schools in that community and the nearest secondary school is about five kilometers, so I felt the school should serve them all. People were very happy when I built the school. I built six classrooms with two offices and two toilets there as a constituency project. Till date, I pay the teachers about #280,000 monthly for the past four years.
Is it a public school?
It is a public school, it is a constituency project. I did it and I am still the one running it, for the fact that we hope the government will approve it in time as a constituency project. So, it is as if we are complementing his effort. We went to him, appealed to him, called Dapo Abiodun and lots of people to him ,even ,Odubela who was commissioner for education then, we met with him and discussed, yet he turned a deaf ear and didn’t do it. Till the last two months when we had a meeting, but, before then, before the elections, I went to him in company with the speaker, Mr. speaker knelt down to beg him that he should approve our school. He promised that day that he would call the commissioner for education to approve that school, but, after we left there, nothing was done about it. That is about three years now, he didn’t do it and he said that after elections, he will attend to rural needs which we agreed. We went into the election, we started campaigning and willingly without anyone forcing him, when we went to campaign at the primary school in Abigi, he told the people that he will tar the roads even before his election and we believed him. As I talk to you, nothing has been done in that regard. So, after our election, at a meeting we told him that ‘governor, you are not helping the situation, it is as if you stand to destroy the image of the party ’. It is as if I am not competent to represent the people of that local government, you shouldn’t abandon that community. He told me he would do something but he didn’t do anything. There was a meeting we held last month, suddenly we saw a message from the speaker that there would be an emergency meeting with the governor ,but, firstly we must assemble in his office before going to the governor. He said we should all put on white cloths, so I was wondering, from waterside I had to drive down to the office to ask them, ‘why should you ask us to wear white dresses?’ Because, that was the time we had issue with commissioner for works, that was when we suspended him. So, we had to get to that place and on getting there, the commissioner for works was already there with some other commissioners. So, he was talking about how we suspended the commissioner, he was even bragging, we just had to exercise patience. We expressed our own side of the matter, he asked the commissioner for works to apologize and he did. The governor appealed to us and we agreed that day that the suspension will be lifted. After the governor introduced that he is interested in taking loans, that was when my annoyance came up, that was when I separated from him. He called us that we should support this loan, we listened, but, it was a shock for all of us except for those that were formerly aware like the speaker. We asked that ‘why this emergency loan since there are other loans he had been involved in, can he explain how he has spent the other loans?’ He tried to maneuver that, he didn’t explain, but, he declared the floor open for questions on his N65.7bn loan. He asked every member to say his mind on the loan and how they feel they will contribute to the loan. When it got to my turn, I told him he was unfair with the people of my local government, that he was a bunch of regret to people of that local government in the sense that since he has been in office, since I have come to the party, I have been supporting him. I have never one day deviated from the loan because I believe it will be of benefit to every one of us, but, I see no reason why it is difficult for him to do any capital project, even 5km road, I see no reason. I told him that it is unfair, I told him to his face in his office. I also spoke about the school he refused to approve, he felt bad and he was annoyed with that statement. By his response and submission, he said he is not interested in the rural areas now, that he cannot abandon central such as Ifo and Ota where there are good votes and go to the rural area to spend his money there and at the same time, the vote from that side does not count. In the presence of us, he said the vote of Ogun East does not count which means a lot to us. That means in his tenure he will not do anything, that means my being with him will not fetch us any benefit in my local government. Then I decided, I accessed my journey with him for six years like I am going to market and an armed robber takes away money from me; I was not killed by the armed robber so I decided to go out and arrange myself, then I decided to dump him because he has nothing to offer my local government, he doesn’t see the vote from my local government as part of his success. So, this is how I decided to just stay away from him and be on my own.
The Two term member of Ogun State House of Assembly and a term councillor has condemned white elephant projects going on in Ogun state most especially bridges and pedestrian walkways in Abeokuta.
However, he said there is no economic importance of the pedestrian walkways as it has been closed since 2015 without anyone plying it. Also he said the bridge under constructions in Abeokuta is of no relevance when Abeokuta is not a swampy area that it's a means of embezzling ogun funds.
He says as I quote:
_I have postrated to the governor publicly which I know it's wrong as a legislature just to remember my constituency in his projects but all he do say is that my constituency votes is irrelevant in Ogun State_
_Ode Omi people are under attacks from the militants and the Lagos State Government sent security boat to kill 16 of the perpetrators, yet Ogun governor has been silent on his people without any press release or official visitation to the affected people and area_
He also vowed not to be part of any legislators to sign any loan whichever after the last one the governor brought to them, makes position known on Judiciary, Local Government and House of Assembly autonomy as a means of cagging the people not to voice out on issues.
He advised the good people of Ogun Waterside both homes and I diaspora to troop out to register for their voters card and decide who becomes the next governor of Ogun State in the upcoming 2019 election.
