Two weekend ago, the entire Ondo state treated itself to some serious party.
Well, it was not like the everyday people on the street was involved in some spectacular way.
It seems to be a glittering collection of the who-and-whos of the state - to put it the way OSRC likes to headline this kind of stuff back the days invited together, with Olu Maintain music, and supporting cast to treat themselves.
It was supposedly about a new identity – whatever that means.
In reality, it was about this logo this logo.
Yeah, you heard that right!
So much partying for the design of a simple mix of colours on Photoshop. It is a creative job that would take 5 minutes. Hardly worth fussing about.
In attendance, scores of mega-men and their wives who has dominated the state, but hardly defined the state.
Granted, there has not been too much reason for excitement in a state flowing with embedded riches with the state just recently surviving the logo of the PDP in the frightening colours of Olusegun Agagu – a catalogue of intellectual accident and gross waste.
So, for a new labour party to organise a get-together is not entirely a wrong thing in itself.
What is new and disappointing is the premise. And all that goes into such premise, in terms of cost in the Nigerian namespace. We will never know.
Or put in a different way, we might get to know, only when we do not remember even the colours of the logo. But make no mistake about it, lots of useful funds would have gone in different colours into the jamboree.
There are no accessible policy paper, or visible directions, heck! parties on transforming, if not championing the rebirth of the derelict state of education in the state. You paint that colourless.
In the long-winded manifesto of the government, there was a 12 bullet point agenda that has no colours in this logo. As of yet.
We might have another party for that, maybe sometime…. Colour that patience.
Ondo state has in its deep underbellies, some of the most potent belts for massive agriculture .
How this government intends to translate such richness of blessing to visible colours of commerce, mass food production, and guarantee is , at best, an exercise in mind reading. That is, no one knows.
But everyone expects. That is the colour of ondo state’s logo in the mind.
The governor is a medical doctor. It takes a lot of imagination and vision but would it not be befitting, if he was able to lead the state in the rejuvenation of her healthcare systems , perhaps with an all too needed plan to create a world-class teaching hospital ? stuff of dreams….
But if you have any idea how a specialist hospital is organised – and the governor should have some idea – then you would see colours that is needed for the logo of the Ondo state specialist hospital. It won’t merit a party.
The most depressing bit of the logo jamboree, was the statements credited to the former governors of the state as reported here.
One of the state’s ex-rulers – you can’t really be hard, he is one of those khaki men – apparently forgot what it was all about. He thought it was his birthday.
Hear Olukoya:
‘‘Mimiko has got it right, Ondo State has got it right and I am wondering whether today is my birthday’’.
It is a disgrace. But we have gone past that now.
The Sun, reports Mimiko saying the colours stood for vibrancy, brightness and progress.
It would appear his government needed some bright, and perhaps brave men, to remind him, it is no election time no more.
But it will be elections time soon.
And the colours of the logo then, he would not be defining.
He would be on trial for the real colours of Ondo state, the logo of which are in people’s minds. Not graphics designers!
