The politics of Ondo state, over the last decade has not been much different.
The same characters, the same jingles literarily fill the space at election time; Barely little movement in terms of developmental index.
It would be interesting to see how he approaches the myriad of static problems facing the namespace – Ondo state.
Personally, I argue that the greater mass of the state’s citizen remains broadly mis /dis informed. The state controlled media could do with a lot more freedom as to their capacity to educate and entertain. But that is minimal in terms of what must be handled with intense passion.
The core resource of the state remains in the hugely under-rated agricultural positives;- capacity to grow food, hugely undersubscribed.
Other pertinent task that would determine his government’s fate in the coming months is the so critical need to re-organise a fundamentally “dead” government ( civil service).
His ability to ensure that a sense of “going-to-work-to-actually-work '” is restored to the civil service (and ‘servants’ – that so colonial word) is so central to any form of traction he may wish to build upon.
In terms of health services, the extent to which the state hospital could provide and sustain basic healthcare – with nurses not needing to frisk patients for the need of syringes – would also be crucial when the jury goes out.
Politically, the game cannot be any clumsier.
Mr Mimiko is an ex-PDP ex-AC man by curriculum. PDP embodies thuggery and in-your-face levels of thieving, crass corruption.
Party politics in namespace Nigeria remains paddy-paddy phenomenon.
Conventional logic dictates that the unseen actors and cast of the ill-fated PDP regime would be plotting their next moves. This would include defection.
The Labour Party – Mimiko’s electioneering platform – accommodate all sorts of characters as the plot thickens….
The onus will be on Mr. Mimiko, to always evaluate every single decision he has to make, that they be resolved in favour of one, and ONLY one question: -
Is this in the ultimate interest of the people of Ondo state ?
