By TRIANGLE News Media
Power isn’t control at all, power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. Dr. Eddy Eniola Olafeso is indeed a great leader who is worthy to be elected to direct the affairs of Ondo State.
In a world laden with numerous structural and ideological inconsistencies, the need to have a good leader cannot be overstated. These leaders don’t just inspire to achieve their fundamental objectives, but they also help bridge the social, economic and political divides. In all, societies become much stronger, bolder, resilient and efficient. That’s what we need in Ondo State and Dr. Eddy Olafeso represents.
He has said it times without number that he is not just campaigning to be Governor of Ondo State on the basis of geography but on competence and capacity, which according to his are his our driving force. And that is how Olorogun Eddy Olafeso is calling on all to come together to make Ondo’s sun shine again.
Dr. Olafeso, a former DHL
Regional Manager for Africa, is challenging the status quo in Ondo State. The experiences gathered from past positions held, where visible results were produced without blemish provide the required preparations for his present gubernatorial ambition. He is the kind of man Ondo State needs now to do well.
Having excelled in the corporate world, Eddy decided to pursue his dream in partisan politics. Thus he ended his fifteen years sojourn in the USA and returned home to join the PDP in his Ward and Local Government. He rose to become the State Secretary of the Party and later Commissioner for Information in Dr Olusegun Agagu’s government. He used this position to advance State and people, also established his imprimatur on the political scene. Thereafter was appointed National Coordinator of the Goodluck Jonathan Support Group and he excelled!
Under his watch as National Vice-chairman (South-West), our Great Party, the People’s Democratic Party, dislodged APC government in Oyo State, to produce Gov. Seyi Makinde. Still, under him, we were able to make tremendous impact in the last Osun State governorship election, until the powers that be subverted the will of the people, by stealing the mandate.
Also in Ondo State, in concert with other dogged stakeholders in the party, his tenure witnessed the defeat of APC presidential candidate, in addition to having two out of three Senators, and three out of Seven House of Reps. members, in the 2019 general elections–All of these happening in an APC controlled State.
Especially now that governance has been restricted to a very minute few in our dear Ondo State, and both the small and medium scale businesses have taken a major hit with the economic policies of the incumbent administration. Olafeso is offering to render generous assistance to the poor and needy as governor.
A PhD holder who would not have been educated if not for the free education policy of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Eddy is not comfortable with kids like him starved of such opportunity again. So, he has offered himself for service to provide free and compulsory education.
He regrets the present challenges in the state, such as capital flight and lack of depth in the resourcefulness of our leaders in recent times. He identifies thee as part of the many reasons responsible for the bastardisation of Ondo State’s economy. Dr. Olafeso has the capability to transform Ondo into a cynosure of eyes, and his abilities are not in doubt.
For him, for too long, Ondo State have been starved of accountable leadership, and it is one major reason for the stagnation of our agricultural sector. Ondo must use this opportunity to resolve to rescue Ondo State from the cogs of nepotic, villainous despots, who have held us by the jugular for quite too long. There and then we will build the Ondo State of the dream of our fathers.
In all the capacities he served in his life, Dr. Eddy Olafeso left iconic footprints behind. He is a man whose intellectual prowess is in same proportions with his robust physical stature.
Ondo State today is at a crossroad as the maladministration of the present has wiped off the gains of our recent past! Fortunately, an opportunity to change guards at the Government House beckons and it is a chance that must be taken serious by citizens of Ondo State. This is where Eddy Olafeso is relevant! He has thrown his hat into the ring and offers to provide service to the State and its people. Eddy has impeccable credentials to perform and distinctional experience that will reshape the fortune of Ondo State.
Therefore, it is time for all good people of this State to support an achiever to impact positively on the life of our dear State that is currently in the vice grip of incompetence, nepotism and burgeoning corruption. We invite all people of goodwill in Ondo State and even beyond to key into this project and help make a new dawn of positivity and progressivism possible in Ondo State.
With these uncommon feats, among several others, we are confident that he will make a good Governor, any day, any time. For a wholesale reengineering and reinventing of governance in Ondo State, Dr. Eddy Olafeso is your best bet. He is a quintessential party man.
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