Osun guber: Youth groups shut down Osogbo over zoning
Organisation in collaboration with Development Advocacy group, on
Tuesday locked down Osogbo, the Osun State capital, in protest against
agitation for zoning of the governorship seat to Osun West senatorial
district.
They staged a procession, which kicked off from Ayetoro area of the
metropolis and terminated at the popular Ogo-Oluwa junction, where the
leader of the group addressed newsmen.
The leader of the group, Dr Ademola Oyedokun, in his address, berated
the clamour for zoning system, describing it as antithetical to
democratic principles and ethos.
He accused zoning proponents of striving to protect their "parochial
economic interests ", alleging that majority of them are senior
citizens who are apprehensive of their political fate in the coming
years.
Oyedokun emphasised the need to insist on competence and vibrancy in
the choice of who would lead the state to enviable heights.
He said that equity, as protagonists of zoning system canvassed,
implies giving equal opportunities to every individual in the state to
showcase competence and requisite political-economic strength needed
by the state for advancement and sustainable development.
"As young citizens of the state, our concern finds expression in the
submission of Mao Tsezong that: The success of a society depends on
the ability of the leader.
"The imperative of leadership in propelling development or otherwise
is more crucial than that of a surgeon in the hospital, because the
greatest disease is poverty, which could only be cured by political
surgery and care.
"For us, the agitation for zoning, aside the fact that it finds no
expression in any extant laws, party constitution, party ethics, and
our political culture, is also retrogressive and undemocratic.
"Democracy, Justice, Fairness, and Equity, are to allow every eligible
citizen from any part of the state to express interest and face
delegates, and ultimately the electorate.
"More compelling is the fact that the international political
community is now inclusive-driven, development inclined and no more
individual, sectarian and regional focused.
"As at today, Nigerians and people of other races and colour are voted
as mayors and chancellors in white-dominated European countries. Why
then do we continue to fan the embers of division and discord on our
soil?" he queried.
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