Ayo Fayose and the will of destiny- Olusegun Ariyo

‘’Our destiny remains in our hand, we only need to take delivery of what belong to us’’-Bishop David oyedepo.

Everything works together for good and for those who truly believes in the will of the highest God. For Ayodele fayose, the governor elect, it was a day of reckoning when the twisted hand of faith drop dawn to pave way for another regime with different party affiliation in the state of Ekiti that is having him as their change agent, Changing the entire baton of leadership through the will of destiny that can be attributable to ray of hope in the minds of the people and the act of God that must prevail above all things.

’’Indeed, our destiny remains in our hand; we only need to exercise it in other for us to take delivery of what is in provision for us’’. To the electorates, it was time for the change they truly needs.

How, many would ask, it was indeed their desires for change that gave them the zeal to exercise their franchise and vote for who they truly needs.

From the look of things, the people truly demand change in governance not minding whose ox is gored, since what they want is of importance , paramount and is determined through their ability to choose, having their franchise, and that they truly know how to go about it with their sovereignty and if indeed, that happened to be the reasons for having different submission from various quarters matching against the verdict of others, one is tempted to believe what the governor elect said ‘’that the opposition are people that is good in making noise ‘’only, on the pages of newspapers. ‘planning and strategizing are not something that is being done in the open, more especially when it involves individuals that are in competition, it’s like having the concentration of market base that has something to do with buying and selling ideologies, the people are the end products, that must have to choose.

In that wise, we should expect that what must be their choice must be of interest to them, part of which must be that the candidate is sellable to them, and be popular. Above all, must truly understand the needs and desires of the people.

The simple analogy here is truly that the Ekiti people are people of sophistication; they are individuals who know what governance is all about, the rudiments and the understanding of what is quality assurance that is devoid of quality control.

Expensive mistakes are made and usually the leaders are those who give birth to such some-time, and are such, majority would have to bear the consequence and live with it.

Take for example, when you bring in someone that is not popular in the midst of his people and the opposition had otherwise, what magic can such a party do to win election in an era where the people are more enlightened, and where our pattern of voting has changed drastically and equally making it more and more difficult for anybody to manipulate—today we see obvious mistakes as result of being selfish and self-centred in most political party.. Just because of personal interest.

As an indigene, did some samplings through focus group discussion in the state of Ekiti, and the outcome without any prejudice is that the people of Ekiti are tired of ‘’baba so pe’’ To further buttress my points, Some analyst even gave their verdict as having more of poverty on ground, some say its defile all logic and theory as to what made the people vote for alternative. Some even went as far as saying our people are having more recourse to ‘’stomach infrastructure’’ other than the effort of the present governor in revamping physical infrastructure generally in the state.

Accordingly, we should not forget that this governor elect has succeeded in defeating two incumbent governors, at first was when he contested against the incumbent in 2003, was at my local government in Ijero, and his methodical approaches were that he brought water tanks to various location and ensure everybody had access to drinkable water, shared things of livelihood that can sustain the people like sewing machines, tricycles and other form of putting food on the table of the low income earners which if classified, are indeed the needs of the majority that is termed as priority to them that earn him his personality as individual.

In that, even if he contested under any platform, he will always come out victorious when compared to the elites. To me, what is more important is that the people are willing to get what they can take away instantly as means of life sustenance given the higher proportion of poverty index the country is battling with, instead of what the entire state stands to gain. Indeed, building human capital development.

From the views of all said, one wonder if those seeing it from those perspective were able to discover for the present governor before now, the need to mould his policy toward such process in the past in other for his people to match towards that line, and be able to use as testimony during his campaign of what he was able to achieve in terms of empowerment of various form which indeed would have been a game changer for him in the past compare to what the governor elect has done as well for the people individually and collectively in the collation, collection and distribution of wealth to evaluate from, since they the people of Ekiti are the one to determine their coming back, and as well, determine who they want.

For instance, when the governor elect was bold with his word and stand mien in Ikere Ekiti during the electioneering campaign that he had once proposed university education in that settlement and that the present government went ahead and relocate it to another location, and went further, that if re-elected, he was going to replace it back, the people of Ikere held that and indeed formed part of what influence their decision among other things.

Then, their direction of vote cannot be wrong as insinuated from various quarters. Indeed, there are many factors that truly worked for the governor elect, one of which was issue based campaigning, and the legacies he left behind which truly made him stand tall among his peers to raise shoulder high above others as goods, worth given out to sell, and was able to achieve results. Other ideology is indeed his understanding of the social stratification with the low income earners essentially within their environment.

The understandings and believe of the governor elect on local content policy and indeed, the will of destiny that is above human comprehension. First, let me analyse this sharp contrast when it comes to social stratification that is embedded. In quoting from Fayose’s word when he said’’ the people of Ekiti are my people, they are part of me and I am part of them, anytime there is any social interaction such as naming ceremony and other related programmes that involves them, I personally make out time to attend personally’’.

There is one thing about human behavioural science that has something to do with relationships variables when it comes to social stratification that transcend beyond human imagination sometimes and the way they affect us. When sampled with different variables, it’s usually turns out yielding different results. For instance, if you have committed relationship with any woman, that may blossom into marriage forever. Even if not, those moments and memories are not something that could depart so easily from both parties. Indeed, this comes as a result of sharing things in common, seeing themselves often, and always on time when both party is in need of whatever form of assistance.

Those little things are of importance and usually, they lingers in memory and could draw sympathy of whatever kind through the affection showed in time of need as a result. Could this then be said that the ideology of this nature defies all logic or theory’’ the truth is that the environment remains our surroundings which simply explains that we are where we live’’ especially when we are part of those sustaining the inhabitants, the environment has a way of given back.

The inhabitants are no angels, they have had enough experiences of both the governor elect and this present governor, and they understand what both has for them and not what some insinuate as to be ‘’stomach infrastructure’’ with which this writer take an exception, hence the ultimate decision lies in the hand of the electorate to choose.

 If the present governor has the best policies ever and the people believes his style of governance is not good for them, and were able to use their franchise and exercise it in whichever direction, it should be commendable.

To me, what matter most is their right of sovereignty bestowed on them through their franchise, and did not came as surprise when the incumbent governor was quoted as saying’’ if truly this is the will of the people, he stands in difference to it’’ Was watching and following both rallies, looking at the progress of things, one can be tempted to have a tentative conclusion as to where the pendulum would swing.