Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola today formally assumed duties as the 4th executive Governor of Osun state with a pledge to transform the state within the first 180 days of his administration.

  Governor Aregbesola who arrived the state secretariat at Abeere,along Gbongan Road,Osogbo at about 10,00.a.m in company of his deputy,Mrs Grace Laoye-Tomori went round the secretariats complex and drove out almost immediately.
  He also visited the state House of Assembly Complex and the State High Court complex to solicit for the support of the two arms of government.
  The new state helmsman asked that he should simply be addressed as Mr. Rauf Aregbesola saying that he should not be addressed as His Excellency.  

Governor Aregbesola lashed out on the former President Olusegun Obasanjo as he described his involvement in the crisis of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso as unacceptable to  his government and the people of Osun State as well as the good people of Oyo State.
    Aregbesola noted that the joint ownership of the institution will remain since the aim of joint patrimony for Oyo/Osun is for the youth to develop academically.

 “My government will embark on wide consultation with leaders and stakeholders in Education in the two states so that the action of Olusegun Obasanjo will not jeopardize the interest of education in the two owner states”,he said.

 He stated that in as much as he would not discriminate in governance, all political parties in the state will be adequately taken care of because he said that he would not only represent the ACN which elected him into the office ,but the interest of all will be paramount to him.

 The governor in his maiden interaction with journalists at the party secretariat pointed out that it would be a great disservice for him and the ACN government if he fails to carry other political parties along which he stressed is members of the same family.

    According to him, the new government will change the bad perception of the people within the shortest possible time as the administration will be committed to stability, promotion of wealth, freedom and development in all ramifications of life.

    He said,  himself, and his Deputy, Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori will give room for positive economic social and political changes since the government will be the government of the people irrespective of political party, religious affiliation and ethnic colouration.

According to him, all ACN members will not be allowed to participate in all forms of violence, hooliganism and acts capable of disuniting the people of the state but also warned all political parties to desist from any form of destabilization since the government will not tolerate any act of indiscipline in governance.

 Governor Aregbesola also emphasized that malice will never be part of his government since “I represent the value and symbolize the party in all ramifications and have also ceased to be a partisan politician while my government will be fair to all shade of opinions in the state”.

 He however warned that he would not tolerate people masquerading to cause violence and provoke crisis in a bid to retaliate because anyone caught will not go scotch free and will be made to face the wrath of law.

    His words: “it is a source of pain to me that some people went out on the covers of ACN under the guise of retaliating the injustice done to us, I want to make it categorically clear that revenge is of God only and therefore it will be a disservice to God for anyone to in tend to take over the work of God”.

 While describing those people that engaged in violent attack as enemy of  his  government, he directed law enforcement agents to make whosoever is found culpable of violent act to face the wrath of the law.

                                                                            

Osun State will deter and punish violence

By Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola

My good people of Osun state, I once again wish to express my profound gratitude for your unalloyed support during the dark days of the recently ousted impostors. You stood on the part of justice, fairness and emancipation. Those small steps of showing your undying love for our struggle became a big step towards the attainment of our collective dream and a giant step in heralding a new dawn in Osun State and Nigeria as a whole.

 Together we have won a legal battle that many skeptics had deemed impossible just a week ago, against the full money, guile and machinations of do or die politicians that had a strangle hold on the Osun state political space some days back. This is a miracle that we created together and now we have created history.

 November 26th 2010 would forever be remembered in the annals of Osun State as the day of Redemption for Osun State and transforming the hitherto rudderless state into the bastion of hope for all development loving Nigerians. You have so altruistically demonstrated your resolve that never will anybody take you the good people of Osun for granted.  

It is, therefore, on this note that I wish to draw your attention to the alleged plans by some of our detractors to stoke violence and create chaos under the guise that it is Action Congress of Nigeria members that are retaliating the oppression, repression and depression that they suffered under the ousted despotic regime of Brigadier General Olagunsoye Oyinlola.

I wish to note that the struggle for political emancipation is often frustrated by thoughtless individualism. We are currently celebrating a fresh breath of hope, freedom and liberation from the shackles of fear, tyranny, maiming, killing, retrogression and opportunism.  Therefore, those who may wish to perpetrate clannish or individual vendetta would unwittingly be jeopardizing the very fundamentals of our current joy.

To this end, we have directed all security agents to take care of any criminal that may wish to corrode the joy, happiness and celebration that currently pervade Osun State. The maximum weight of the law would be invoked upon any lawlessness that may be perpetrated by anybody or group irrespective of political affiliation.

It is a new day in Osun state. In our bid to actualize the Awolowo slogan of freedom for all and life more abundant, the only things we need to fight now are poverty and backwardness and together we shall win!

God Bless you all.

Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola

Governor,

Osun State

BEING THE TEXT OF  GOVERNOR RAUF  AREGBESOLA’S  MAIDEN  SPEECH TO THE PEOPOLE OF OSUN STATE