In a passionate address shared on his Facebook page on Friday, Barrister Wale Odusola, a constitutional lawyer from Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State and a kinsman to Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has stirred significant conversation by criticising the governor’s performance in office.
The video, delivered in the Ilaje dialect and transcribed into English by Starnews NG, has already garnered over 6,000 views within 24 hours, along with a flurry of shares and comments.
Odusola’s remarks reflect deep concern for the development of Ilaje and a strong plea for Aiyedatiwa to prioritise the needs of his constituents. He expressed his frustrations by stating, “We only know of today, not tomorrow. We may think it is time and it won’t be. We can also think it is not time and it will be. So whatever is at hand now, we must do.”
He urged the community to engage with the governor, warning, “I plead with you all to help me talk to him because if I get annoyed and scold him publicly, he might have to arrest me. I must have poured my mind now. I said this because I was even sleeping and tired, but I thought I should just pour out what I have in my mind.”
Odusola continued, “Let Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa hear—now they are saying he is doing projects for Ondo State. That was the same thing former Governor Olusegun Agagu did then. Whenever he was asked to develop Ikaleland, he would say he is not an Ikale Governor but the Governor of Ondo State. Consequently, throughout his stay in office, we cannot point to anything the Ikales benefited from his government.”
He recalled past governance decisions, stating, “Even OAUSTECH today – he only gave out the contract reluctantly during his second tenure when he realised he might lose the Tribunal case to Dr. Segun Mimiko. He actually thought the Tribunal would order INEC to conduct a rerun election. He did that maybe to get votes from the Ikales. He wasn’t ready to do anything good for the Ikales at all. Look at the substandard roads he constructed in Ikale, saying it’s because he is the Governor of Ondo State.”
Odusola asserted that the same pattern is emerging with Governor Aiyedatiwa, lamenting, “That’s the same thing happening with Governor Aiyedatiwa again. They say he’s just sharing contracts about. I don’t know who sent him, but he has abandoned Ilaje now. If Ilaje should miss this opportunity, they shouldn’t think they can become Governor again in the next 30 years. This opportunity God gave him – he should know that if not for the death of former Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, could Ilaje become Governor after Akeredolu?”
He drew comparisons to other governors, stating, “When Adefarati was Governor, was he the Governor of Akoko or Akungba when he took the Ondo State University to his hometown Akungba? When Mimiko did his own, was he not the Governor of Ondo State when he took UNIMED to Ondo town? Visit Ondo now – roads everywhere that he built. Similarly, when Akeredolu came, he constructed all the roads in Owo and transformed it into a big city.”
Odusola emphasised the urgency for action, saying, “Now it’s our turn, but they’ve started doing what Agagu did, saying he wasn’t the Governor of the Ikales. That’s the same path Aiyedatiwa is following. I heard he’s saying ‘he is not the Governor of Ilaje.’ You people should talk to him well.”
Addressing rumours about the governor’s alleged influence from his Finance Commissioner, he stated, “About all these scandals we hear regarding a woman or wife, the Commissioner of Finance – I don’t want to believe that’s true, but if it is, Ilaje people better quickly call him. We have examples of what happened here before. I don’t like how Ilaje is always carried away with women, running after them helter-skelter. Be careful – Ilaje must be developed.”
Starnews NG reports that Odusola concluded with a call for immediate action: “My belief is that they should be grading everywhere, sandfilling should be ongoing everywhere in Ilaje. He should be transforming Ilaje into a big city. That’s what I expect. All this slow motion thing – I don’t support it because we only know of today, not tomorrow. We may say it won’t be quick and it will be, or we might say it will be quick and it won’t be. So the one we have at hand now, let’s do it.”
“Please help me beg him. If I get annoyed and come to scold him badly in the open space, he will be forced to arrest me. Okay… no problems, but I have said my own,” he added.
As his video continues to circulate, it remains to be seen how Governor Aiyedatiwa will respond to these strong criticisms from a prominent member of his own community, Starnews NG reports.
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