The re-election of governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has been described as the will of God that could not be controverted.
The gubernatorial candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the April 11th election, Engr. Seyi Makinde disclosed this at the Omi Titun 2nd Annual Ramadan Lecture held at the premises of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Agodi, Ibadan
According to Makinde, the election of 2015 went the way God wanted it, my own time will come. “We have played politics and the politics has put somebody in office, there cannot be two governors in the state at a time. There is no more politics now but governance, how to make life easy for everybody.
“What is expected of the citizenry is to support and cooperate with those in power so as to be able to deliver on their promises. There’s nothing God wants to do that He will not do in His own time. The time of political attack has gone and will not resurface until 2018”, he added.
At the programme which was sponsored by Engr. Makinde, he told the congregation composed of Islamic faithfuls and his political supporters, some of who were calling him ‘Your Excellency’ that there could not be two ‘Excellencies’ in the state at a time.
He urged the congregation to attach the necessary importance to the programme described as ‘spiritual meal’, saying, “a lot of people believe that Seyi Makinde can only assist with money, that’s very far to where we are going in the hereafter, that’s why I implore all of you to pay diligent attention to the sermon by our guest speaker”.
The guest speaker, Sheik Muideen Salmon Hussein, the Chief Imam of Ofa, Kwara State, who spoke on ‘What is Ethics’? called on leaders at the various levels to appreciate their followers by being concerned about their lives and to be sure that they are not in anyway exploited.
The cleric specifically tasked the elected leaders not to distance themselves from the masses, whose votes put them in their respective offices, noting that the masses should be seen more by the elected leaders, because, without their votes, they could not have gotten to the positions.
He equally tasked the followers to be sincere and committed to the cause of their leaders and not just be parasitic in their relationship because, “as the leader is promoted, so also his/her followers indirectly if the leader is a good one and that is why, as followers, we must lead faithfully to be positively rewarded through their elevation”.
The Chairman of the occasion, Engr. Lere Adigun in his words of exhortation described the lecture as a very unique one, being an annual event being sponsored by a Christian and a means of preaching unity and oneness among the people, irrespective of creed, race or religion.
The octogenarian, who recalled that he chaired the first edition of the programme last year commended Engr. Makinde, who he described as a humble, kind- hearted and a man of few words, asking the people to emulate his good virtues.
He equally charged the young man not to loose hope on his ambition to govern Oyo State, but to remain steadfast and resolute just like the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari who achieved his ambition on his fourth attempt, stressing that the will of God concerning him will surely come to pass.
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