The political impasse that has characterised Ondo State in recent months could have been avoided had Governor Rotimi Akeredolu taken the right decision to step down in the face of the ill-health that effectively precluded him from serving the people of the state.
By holding tenaciously to power against the dictate of his health, the governor has further narrowed the gap between core professionals in power and career politicians often reviled for despoiling the majesty of public office and the rule of law. While it is human for leaders to be ill and temporarily indisposed, personal issues should not grind governance to a halt or give an inkling of government on holiday.
Unfortunately, ill-health has been Akeredolu’s albatross. The loss of vitality for the highly demanding office has rendered Arakunrin more absent than present on his second-coming to the office. After weeks of speculation on his health, on July 7, 2023, he proceeded on a 21-day medical leave in Germany, which lasted for three months.
There are also narratives that Akeredolu could govern Ondo state from anywhere but from Ondo. However plausible such mockery sounds in the ears of the narrators, what is clear is the massive depravity akin to a government in absentia in Ondo. The enveloping darkness around the Alagbaka Government House corridor symbolises stalled development in the state. And routine payment of salaries can hardly compensate for lack of real development or progress of the Redeemed agenda.
Indeed, Ondo State is too intellectually endowed and enlightened to be shoehorned into democratic backwardness of a one-man political circus show. Granted that the ‘more sensible’ professional could also drop the ball, it is most unfortunate that the State House of Assembly shamelessly took sides against probity in this matter.
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