Osun guber poll: Group urges electorate not to gamble with leadership

By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo

A socio-political group under the aegis of The Osun Masterminds has advised the electorate to vote for candidates based on their track record during Saturday’s governorship election in the state. 

This was contained in a statement signed by the group’s director, Dr. Wasiu Oyedokun-Alli on Wednesday. 

According to the statement, Osun State cannot afford to put someone who has shady character in position of authority.

“Osun is at a time in her history, when we cannot afford to gamble with leadership. We cannot afford to hand the State over to charlatans at this critical period.

“Citizens must therefore interrogate the plans and programmes of each of the candidates and decide the best person in whose hands they feel the State will be safest.

“It is not a time for irrelevant emotions; it is a time for deep reflection and rejection of any candidate that lacks the understanding of the issues at hand and the best way to manage them,” the statement said.

The Osun Mastermind also condemned the alleged attack on the residence of Rt. Hon. Lasun Yusuf, the Labour Party governorship candidate and a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

“However, it is preposterous and rather unfortunate that the Labour Party candidate was quick to point accusing fingers at another candidate. 

“Such hasty and still baseless accusations make it easy to think the entire narrative was hatched by him to discredit and blackmail another candidate.

“We are concerned that a few days to the election, issues like this are cropping up in the polity, needlessly supercharging the atmosphere and making it unsafe for ordinary citizens of the State,” the statement added. 

The group commended all relevant agencies involved in the planning and execution of the July 16 governorship election and pleaded with them to remain neutral and committed only to the true tenets of democracy.