Ogunbiyi charges electorate to resist clueless candidate to run Osun

By Ismail Azeez, Osogbo

Former governorship aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi, has charged the residents of the state to do all within their reach to elect a credible candidate in the forthcoming elections.

He warned the electorate not to choose a leader who is clueless in running the State.

He gave the warning on Monday at a summit organised by the Civil Society Committee for Anti-fraud Election Security in Osogbo, the State capital.

Ogunbiyi who recently dumped the main opposition party in the State is yet to make public his new political party but declared at the event that he would contest in the July 16th governorship election.

He said one of the candidates contesting to become the governor of the State is a secondary school dropout and the people must watch that happen.

Ogunbiyi was referring to the candidate of the PDP, Ademola Adeleke, favoured by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, which he accused of bias in his resignation letter.

According to him, “A secondary school dropout wants to become the governor of Osun State, can you watch and allow that to happen? because the consequences will be serious.

“The problem in Osun is not civil service, it is not the infrastructure, it is about making Osun an industrialised state. It was the vision of the founding fathers to make Osun an industrialised state, that is yet to happen.

“The only thing to make change happen is to elect credible leaders. Do everything within your power to have a credible election in Osun State.

“I want to participate in the governorship election in Osun state. I am presenting myself to the people of Osun and I want to say that did not say that you must support anybody but present a level playing ground for all to allow credible leaders to emerge,” he added.