Foremost, let me congratulate the new Oyo Global Forum Team. The team I want to call, ‘The Moving Train’ not only for winning the much anticipated maiden OGF election but for having themselves come on board in the time of great challenges bedeviling not only our town but the nation as a whole. In the same vein, despite the enormous challenges so also the avalanche of opportunities to redeem them stare us in the face.
Having said
this, we must realize that the just concluded election has presented to
us opportunities to ride on and allow to blossom for the good of our
dear town and the state. This is in one part, a challenge to the new executives and the entire members alike.
As at last count, OGF could boast of over a thousand members (financial and
non-financial), however, less than a hundred could participate
actively as financial members and eligible to vote during the election,
this in itself is not too good for the vibrancy and effectiveness of our
forum. The challenge before the new men at the helm of affairs of OGF
is to come up with modalities that will make members comply with the
token annual fee - a way that will make members willing to pay and
actually pay. After all, the enthusiasm exhumed by our members during
the election process shows this is possible.
Like ‘Ajise bii….’
that we are, OGF has shown again, that, apart from making a huge number
of people form allegiance towards the same purpose of community
development, it can also organize a free, fair and credible election
electronically. This is another opportunity will must explore and make
better, we should find means as a body blessed with diverse
intellectuals to develop this mode of election to be more transparent
whereby voting process can be viewed on-the-time and followed by all
members on-the-go. Perhaps, this noble innovation can be sold to INEC
for national elections. We can only dare to try.
Individually,
the new executive came in on the back of each promising this and that,
however, we expect that the team gel in no time, form cohesion and find a
level plain enough to absorb individual ideas to generate a more robust
and large but actionable and realistic programs of action for the town.
We are watching and your electioneering promises are BOLDLY embossed on
our diaries. Time is ticking.
Experience has shown about
election that the winner sometimes might not have the best of
programmes, therefore, it is expected that the new executives extend a
hand of friendship to the contestants in the last election to bring
forward their intended ideas and work as a team for the actualisation of
our dream for a Better Oyo.
Like our fathers will say, ‘O tan lenu, oku nikun’.
While I indulge the new executives ably led by our indefatigable Dr Seun Kolade to listen more to the yearnings of our people both on and off cyber space and be strategic in approach, I will also advise the entire OGF congress to lend a hand of support big enough for the executives to rest and rely on.
In this, we can truly achieve success and bring our town out of the shackles of underdevelopment.
Agboola Afeez is a true born son of Oyo town.
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