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What is the secret of your staying power in Kwara politics since you have been consistently voted in four times as a senator for Kwara South Senatorial district?
Well, I think this question will be best put to the electorate, to be honest with you they are the best to answer you because I may not know why they keep voting me back. But the little I can say is maybe because I am relatively close to the grass root, I relate with them at their lowest rung and even i give from my little resources. For the mere fact that you relate with them, you respect them, there are chances that they will also reciprocate your gesture by voting. To God be the glory, five times I have contested, four out of which are for senate and I won. So, that is what I can say and I thank God for that.
Well, I think this question will be best put to the electorate, to be honest with you they are the best to answer you because I may not know why they keep voting me back. But the little I can say is maybe because I am relatively close to the grass root, I relate with them at their lowest rung and even i give from my little resources. For the mere fact that you relate with them, you respect them, there are chances that they will also reciprocate your gesture by voting. To God be the glory, five times I have contested, four out of which are for senate and I won. So, that is what I can say and I thank God for that.
You are also said to have spent so much on indigent scholarship and sundry philanthropist gesture; where do you get all the nerve to be so generous especially to the ordinary people?
I think my strength lies in the ability to take care and pay salaries of temporary teachers which is bigger than giving scholarships to selected ones. If you give scholarships, it can only go to selected ones but if you decide to take over the payment of some of the teachers’ emoluments, then you can give a lot to the people through them, you duplicate the opportunity for education which is bigger than anything else. To God be the glory I have also assisted in the area of provision of class rooms; building of few laboratories. These are the areas I have been able to touch our people; you can see that whatever one is doing is generalized so that all of them can benefit from it. That is the way I do my things, I identify with the needs of the people and I don’t believe in doing things in a way that you bring the world to see it and the next thing is you go to the pages of newspapers to show all you are doing. It is a contract between me, my people and my God and I enjoy doing it that way.
I think my strength lies in the ability to take care and pay salaries of temporary teachers which is bigger than giving scholarships to selected ones. If you give scholarships, it can only go to selected ones but if you decide to take over the payment of some of the teachers’ emoluments, then you can give a lot to the people through them, you duplicate the opportunity for education which is bigger than anything else. To God be the glory I have also assisted in the area of provision of class rooms; building of few laboratories. These are the areas I have been able to touch our people; you can see that whatever one is doing is generalized so that all of them can benefit from it. That is the way I do my things, I identify with the needs of the people and I don’t believe in doing things in a way that you bring the world to see it and the next thing is you go to the pages of newspapers to show all you are doing. It is a contract between me, my people and my God and I enjoy doing it that way.
Your people have asked you to come out and run and deliver Kwara in 2015, being the only surviving PDP Senator in that state, how are you planning to make history as the first Governor from Kwara South in a very long time and with leadership presently in the hand of the opposition?
Well, the aspiration is on to fly the party’s flag in 2015 as PDP flag bearer. The consultations has been made and very soon, there is going to be a public declaration and let’s see what comes out of it at the primary level; then if I succeed in picking the party’s ticket then the next stage will be to face the other political parties at the general election whereby the Kwara electorate as a whole will determine which of the party’s flag bearers would be voted in. I wish to give my people the best of leadership. I wish to make a difference in the lives of the people of Kwara especially people in rural Kwara, our government will solve their problem no matter what.
Well, the aspiration is on to fly the party’s flag in 2015 as PDP flag bearer. The consultations has been made and very soon, there is going to be a public declaration and let’s see what comes out of it at the primary level; then if I succeed in picking the party’s ticket then the next stage will be to face the other political parties at the general election whereby the Kwara electorate as a whole will determine which of the party’s flag bearers would be voted in. I wish to give my people the best of leadership. I wish to make a difference in the lives of the people of Kwara especially people in rural Kwara, our government will solve their problem no matter what.
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Deji Sadiq, a.k.a DEJI OF LAGOS is a LASU trained Economist turned freelance journalist, a Blogger, an information strategist, a public affairs analyst and a committed activist with a passion for equal opportunities.
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