Osun State governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke, speaks in this interview monitored by Jamiu Afolayanka on Channels TV, on his victory in the keenly contested July 16 governorship election and what he intends to do for his state, among other issues.

How does it feel to be the winner in the race?

I feel good. I feel good because the people of Osun State have been yearning to retrieve their stolen mandate and it happened yesterday (July 16, 2022). So, I feel good and I’m proud of the Osun people, and it’s just joy and all, all the way.

Did you have any inclination that this might not go your way?
Well, not really, because I believe in God so much and I always have faith. I’m a fighter the more you are telling me that I can’t do this, I can’t do that, the more, I’m more determined, take for example, when they were talking about my education, blah-blah, like that. I was determined to be a role model, not that I need it because I’m already established, my business and all that, I don’t really need it, but just because I want to be a role model to young people, even to the adults, so I went back to school to let them know that look, it’s not, I can do it.

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At the age of 60?
At the age of 60 and I did it and this is why I went back to the United States to complete my education. I didn’t want to do it here, if I do it here now, you know Nigerian factor; my opponents, some are saying oh maybe, because of my position, I know one professor, I know one this and that, but in the US there’s nothing like that, it’s what you have to work hard, you have to study hard.

So, you wanted to prove your naysayers wrong?

That’s right, that’s what I did.

And you achieved that?
I achieve that and I’m happy.

How do you feel to be the second Adeleke to be Governor of Osun State, how does that feel?
Well, like I feel good because all I can say is it’s only God that can do that. It’s not common; I see it in the Kennedys and other people. When you look at a lot of big politicians and everything, once they die or once they’re out of politics you can never see, maybe a family member that just rises over there but I think God just smiled on me, God just smiles on our family, you know maybe for our goodies to people. So, I guess God has a lot to do with it.

President Buhari has congratulated you
Yeah

When you saw the message from the President congratulating you, the President of the APC, how did it come to you?

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Oh, when I heard it, I felt good, I said well the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, really congratulated me, when I saw it, I said, wow this is good, this is good for our country, democracy is at play here and I’m sure after I received my certificate of return from the INEC, which we are planning to go and visit him and see him and tell him to thank you for the message because most of the time, the opposition don’t even congratulate and everything so maybe he’s trying to leave a legacy that he meant in the Electoral Act that he signed, that he meant it, so, I’m really happy.

Do you think President Buhari has some role to play in your victory?

Well, I have to give him credit because if he didn’t sign it, there will be room for rigging because they did that to me in 2018, but this Electoral Act, wow is great because everything is just when the result was coming out it was just pam, gbagam (laughing) just going, just going inside the, what do you call it.

Come to think of it, the PDP has never held sway, in Osogbo in Olorunda
Yes.

And you won those local government areas, was it a tough battle?
Yeah, it was

What did you do differently?
What I did differently was that I campaigned so hard during the campaign period, it was the message, and message and that message got to them.

And what was the message?
The message was that look, our economy is so bad, the roads are terrible, I can do better, Osogbo as a state capital needs to be given a facelift and especially the economy, the whole place. I mean go round Osogbo, you will see that the roads are so terrible and everything. So, the message was that look, we can do better economically, even, in our health. So what are we even talking about, Osogbo as the state capital needs to be beautified and I as an international guy know what to do? So, I said the message.

So, another Ede son is going into the government house
Yes.

This time around it’s Senator Jackson Ademola Adeleke
Yeah.

Has your opponent, the governor, reached out to you?
No, not yet. Maybe, he will do it but I’m still expecting him, to call me and be civilized about it and just accept defeat, that’s all, this is democracy.

Let’s talk about your party. Things went awry, a lot of things didn’t go exactly the way you wanted. You had a lot of people who left the party, a lot of them were not happy with you, they thought that you took the structure of the party off their hands and they were not happy, what is your plan for reconciliation?

Well, this conversation has begun, even a long time ago, talking to them and everything. They thought I took the structure, I did not take any structure, it was after the structure was formed, and they believed that I’m the candidate to beat. I mean I’m not yet a candidate, I’m the person to beat and the Osun state PDP’s working committee, then believe that look I’ve done it before, tested and trusted in 2018. They believe that I should have the first refresher to contest, and they believe in me. They see that if I can defeat the incumbent in 2018 and they looked around and say please we know you can do it for us again. They believe I have what it takes to do that, so that’s why they thought, I hijacked the party and all of that. So, we’ve been talking to each other concerning that, you could see the former governor came for the final mega rally, you know, and then it’s still on, you know, no victory, no vanquished, let everybody come around.

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Are you not holding any grudge against anyone?
I hold no grudge, why do I need to hold a grudge

So, you’ve forgiven everybody?
I’ve forgiven everybody that offended me, a lot of people offended me but I’m not God, and God has done it for me

Did you imagine or envisage if you were going to win the election at all, defeating an incumbent governor, especially with the election coming a few weeks after the Ekiti election which the APC won? You probably would have had some kind of down high in your spirit that maybe Osun would go the way of the Ekiti?
I was even thinking more

Were you that confident?
Big time, because I know. I’ve studied Osun people and I know what they want. I’ve sent the message and with that faith that I have. See from the time I started to contest for the senate in 2017 landslide, the second one landslide but they started removing my result until they got to 300 and something or whatever. So, I was determined not to let it happen again. So, all these strategies and everything like that you know, I’m not going to let everybody know our strategy because you don’t reveal your strength and all that, so that was what we did. I was determined to make sure that it’s going to be a landslide and I’m not going to let it come close, because look, it’s not easy to defeat an incumbent anywhere in the world but I’m making sure because what happened the last time was because of the margin, that was why they were able to manipulate it but this time around I said no way, it’s not going to happen and with faith, and I thank God that, it did not happen.

Did you in any way work with Rauf Aregbesola, the former governor?
No, I didn’t work with him, I did not work with Aregbesola, I didn’t even talk to him, but all I know is, his associates, for example, Kolapo Alimi, you know during the tribunal, he’s one of the lawyers that represented Oyetola then, so, anytime I see them in the court, because, I’m a civilized person, I will go to them, greet them and say ‘how are you, how are you doing? It was later that he apologized and he told me that he’d been thinking why will Senator Adeleke be greeting me? We are trying to mess him up and he’s still greeting me. But he later told me that while I was greeting him, I didn’t know that I was giving them poison, that somebody they knew that ‘I won the election and they rigged me out, I was still greeting them. So, it was later that time, I believe, that Aregbesola and Oyetola fell out. And he came to me said, he has watched me and everything, that he wants to join our party and I said come on, in but just to Aregbesola directly? No, but I knew a lot of top APCs who joined and worked.

Don’t you think that perhaps Rauf Aregbesola indirectly worked with you, if his associate and his allies joined forces with you maybe that was tactic support for you from Rauf Aregbesola?

Well, I wouldn’t say, I can’t answer that, assuming that I’ve been talking to ‘Aregbe’ one way or the other, then, I would say that maybe, he gave them go ahead to support me. Look, these people are grown, they have their minds, to decide if they want to join me or not, they believe that I’m the one, the one to do it, and they come to me, so I wouldn’t know whether Aregbesola gave them go ahead or not because I’ve not been talking to Aregbesola

When a former governor and Minister Rauf Aregbesola, fell out with Governor Gboyega Oyetola, what was going on in your mind?
I said man, God is good, these are the people that colluded that time they were together because Kolapo Alimi told me the truth that, “yeah they robbed me even the President said it when he came over here that they won the election through remote control and I’m sure you heard about that too, so they knew. There’s what they call “Orimi ja fun mi” “mo joko mi jeje, orimi de ja” (laughing) So, that was what happened, they fell out and that’s to my advantage, and it has paved way for me to victory too.

It does look like family was everything in this race for you, yes, you have the support of your family, your brother, Dr Adedeji Adeleke, and yes, some videos went viral about how you were so emotional when you were announced the winner and they talked about your sister also, a popular sister, Dupe, that’s what she’s called isn’t it?
Yes, (laughing) she’s now my mother, she took over.

Cut-in, she’s sitting as your mother.
My mother you know, at 62 she will still be telling me what to do, well, like my mother but I love her because she meant well to me.

What did you mean to them, did you get monetary support from your brother too?
Me, big time, oh my god, my brother called me, he said, Ademola listen, you don’t have anything to be ashamed of, you contested two elections and you won both, the second one, they stole it from you but this one, because we are going there to serve, we are going there to help the people of Osun state out of poverty, out of slavery, you’re going to do it and I’m still going to support you, whatever that it takes financially. Monetarily may draw you back, so that is why I have to do what I have to do because I don’t know what else

So, he gave you all the backing, and a lot of money and sister Dupe was also behind you like a mother with her hands over your shoulder
Let me tell you something, we’re so close because when we were growing up, I was the last born but at the same time, the family elected me as the president of the Adeleke family, so I always take advantage of that, because sometimes I will just say, okay hey you said you’re my mommy go ahead pay this bill, she will say go and use your own money, I will say ha-ha, I will withdraw you from being my mother because, if my mother was alive she will do the same thing. So, I use to tease her like that and I always get her. We are so close, our father made us and my mother for us to be close and I wish all family can be like that. We’re so tight, we’re so close, we do things together, a lot of people don’t understand that we do things together and I have to do that, I prostrated for my brother and hugged him, crying on him that listen, brother, I love you and thank you so much.

So, did this situation ever make you remember your brother Senator Isiaka?

Ah All the time, this victory I dedicated it to him because he taught me how to… (Adeleke Ademola crying)

Cut-in: I know it could be emotional, that’s okay
The first Executive Governor of Osun State, Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke, his spirit still lives, he died for this course, we wanted to be the governor to save our people from slavery, and look at what happened he died because of this course and I’m so happy that his spirit, still lives. He was the first Executive Governor of Osun state and the younger brother now a governor-elect, I thank you God because his spirit lives, I love him so much because he trained me, he trained me… (Crying)

Cut-in: It’s okay, it’s okay and I think, it’s okay to be emotional for someone who you love and it shows that you miss him but what does your nephew Davido remind you of. How much support, and he seems to have thrown himself into the arena just for your course?

Yes, he did that in 2018 and because Davido and my sons, my kids all grew up together, I even train them together, dancing competitions all that

So, did you teach him how to dance?
Of course, all of them, even my son, B-Red, and Sina Rambo, all of them, they’d been dancing and I have a daughter, that one is the best dancer, Adenike Adeleke, that one is always winning them, so even my son, I will go and buy a drum, he’s very good in beating drum because I can beat the drum too,(oh wow) I love music, I know that. After all, I was supposed to be a musician in the family.

But Davido has that from you
He has taken over, B-Red has taken over, during the time we were growing up, our parents doesn’t encourage us to be a musician or go into the army or go into police and all that, so I had to just give it then and go for business but I’m glad that they pick it up and are doing very well

So, when you saw Davido took to the street in your support and campaigned for you how did you feel?

Ah, I felt good, said wow this is our family, it is a fantastic family.

Do you think that act by Davido pulls any effect on your victory at the poll?

Yes, he pulled effect too, you see with my popularity as the dancing Senator now turned dancing Governor (laughing).

And for those who said you have danced your way into the Government House big time… are you not ashamed of it?

I’m not ashamed of it, there’s time for everything, yeah, I like people to underrate me, when I was in the Senate, the only thing everybody thought of was that ‘this guy is not serious, the only thing he knows, is to enjoy and dance, I said okay no problem, so when it comes to my work they say wow, so you are even good at your work, I say there’s time for everything but when it comes to dancing, I will dance.

So, when you become governor you’ll create time for dancing too?

Big time, entertainment will be one of the things that I would bring, entertainment is a big business here, now in Africa, Nigeria has captured Africa in terms of entertainment, I will make Osun State…, Osun state is a cultural state, it’s rich in culture, so in fact, I will bring entertainment here, maybe I will build entertainment village in the state and the next one year or so Davido will come and do a concert with B-Red and some artistes, all of them will come and do a concert here and see how much it will fetch Osun state. Entertainment is a big business, so that would be part of our programme in the nearest future

Quite interesting. You’ve said a lot of things to the people of Osun state and they have huge expectations, especially the youths, how do you hope to perform in such a way that you do not disappoint them?

Let me, first of all, tell the youths and the people of Osun State that I’m a goal-getter, I know how I do it, when I say I want to do something and I put my mind to it, God has a way of helping me out and I will do it one way or the other. So, for example, the youths, I keep telling them that agriculture is very, very important. A lot of people feel like agriculture, maybe not be lucrative. A lot of people for example in the U.S are farmers and they are making money. When I was in the Senate, I introduced snail farming, some of the youths I introduce it to give them some money and they’re now making money from it. Today they’re now independent, they’re now independent they have it all over there and then you train them. We have a farm settlement that Baba Awolowo built and it has been abandoned, look at our cocoa processing in Ede they are abandoned, so those are the type of things that.

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So, you are going to revive all of those?

I will revive, I will revive it

How many jobs do you hope to generate through agriculture?

Well, the way I’m looking at it, between 20,000 to 30,000 jobs, you know slowly, slowly and like that and of course, you invite investors.

In terms of agriculture if there is one thing that you wish that Osun state should be known for, what would that be?

Cocoa is one of the things that made the western region to be popular. The first tallest building was built through cocoa, the Liberty Stadium in Africa, a radio station, everything in cocoa, we have to do that because we export cocoa too, to foreign lands and then deposit, especially the processing

Are you hoping to establish a factory?

No, we have a factory already that process cocoa in Ede, in my town here.

What did they make out of it?

Well, they just abandon it, they process it during the time of Baba Awolowo

Are you hoping to revive that?

I’m hoping to revive it, I will invite some private investors and they will do it, we’ll partner with them.

So, you will focus on cocoa?

Cocoa and food crops, some other things, poultry, piggery, and all that

Are you able to? Because you don’t necessarily have to be the brightest person (yeah) if you have the leadership quality but if you can bring to the table innovative and creative people to help you in government, are you thinking in that direction?

Yes, I’m thinking already, I have a blueprint but I cannot do it alone.

So, you put a round peg in a round hole (period), is that what you’re going to do?

That’s what I’m going to do.

Are you identifying those people already?

I’m doing it, yes I’m.

Who would you say is perhaps the right-hand person that you’re working with that you trust?

That I trust, well I have some people here, but I’m not going to mention their names, I don’t want them to go and do something to them, (laughing) I’m not going to mention their names, but I have them.

Will you be a governor of your colour, shape, and quality, will you not be tossed around?

No, me I’m…, oh my God, you just don’t know me, when you get to know me, you’ll believe that I’m a man of my own.

Now, let’s talk about education. Are you satisfied with what is going on presently in terms of education, perhaps improving it or you will leave it the way it is?

No, I have to improve it, I’m not satisfied. When PDP was there, we used to be from one to ten doing their WAEC examination that year, but now we are almost second to the last, so I’ll improve on that. First of all, you have to look at the infrastructure, look at the environment of learning. Go to some schools, ordinary grass is like grown so high, mosquitoes everywhere, you go in there the ceiling is leaking, maybe if anytime there’s rain, it will be coming down on the students, that’s not fair just little something that someone can do, no equipment I will invest in education

Will you build new schools?

Well, yes, I’ll build new schools but I will renovate the existing schools there, then the library, I’ll make sure that the library that we have are highly equipped, put equipment there, then train teachers and encourage them, give them an incentive, apart from their salary, you give them an incentive, when maybe they want to travel, holiday blah-blah like that, you give them an incentive and make them happy so that they’ll be able to teach the student, yes and of course technical schools

You have about 10 of that in Osun state, some of them are morbid, and some of them are not working

That’s why I’m going to improve it, my (our) government is not going to be a government that you’ll just go and sit in the office, no way, I’m not going to be wearing Agbada, once I go like this, or put on my jeans t-shirt I’m gone

How would you like to be referred to Mr Governor, Senator Adeleke, or Governor Adeleke, how do you think you’d like to be best referred to?

Well, I think people will decide, they might say I’m Governor-elect, (Governor Jackson) some people just call me Jackson, they say hey Jackson if you say Gov. Jackson there is no problem…

It is coincident that you love to dance and there is a Michael Jackson (laugh)

Let me tell a story about that and then later you pay for that. In my school days, the school that I first went is called Jacksonville State University, so during the time in the 80s, 83 and all that, so Michael Jackson was the one reigning. The Michael Jackson family, and then of course Jackson Five, (Janet …), so Jackson is not my real name, it was a nickname, that became my name like that. I love to dance, so I will go and sign in for the dancing competition, I will beat everybody and when it gets to the final I will beat everybody and I will win a lot of prizes and everything, the day that the president wants to hand over money and the cup to me, so he was trying to pronounce my name and he couldn’t pronounce it very well, he said…. ‘you know what since you are number one here and he danced very well, well I’m going to call him Jackson, so that was it and that’s how it’s stuck, that Jackson stuck in my certificate and everything, so everybody started calling me. My name, the one my parents gave me, Ademola Nurudeen Adeleke period, and my mother, an Igbo gave me Ifeanyi, but you can only have three names in your maybe I’D or whatever middle name… Ademola Nurudeen Adeleke, which is the name my father gave me, my father was very smart Nurudeen, Imole… (Laughing)

Cut-in: Which is good, it has helped you big time, and that Imole is very, very spiritual (where did you get it from)

Okay I’ll tell you, my father named me, Christian Nurudeen, so, listen my father was a Muslim and my mother was a Christian from Abia State, Akwete to be precise so I’ve experienced both religions, so during my senate election, so everybody was bringing so many ideas Itesiwaju Osun, this and blah-blah, I said okay no problem the next day that we’re going to go for a campaign, I will tell you which one I pick and I pray a lot before I do something. I go privately and pray, I said God I want to give a slogan to my campaign and I want you to show me, I slept off, one hour later I just saw a big capital letter Nurudeen, I said Nurudeen, am I going to be saying Nurudeen, what’s that, so, later I saw Imole and light, I said wait a minute Imole and light, ‘oh wait a minute in Quran Nurudeen means Imole, and it means light and when the light comes darkness vanishes, so I said wow that’s it, God has shown me what I’m going to use, so I went out to campaign that day, I think I remembered in Gbongan, so when I stood up everybody was agitated oh, what is Oga going to say, this and that and I just said “Imole de, okunkun parada” “ti Imole ba de, ki lo ma shele, okunkun parada” so when I come what happens, darkness vanishes” and it stuck, so if you go round everywhere now, Imole, Imole revolution, (wow) yes the revolution.

Are you going to embark on electrification projects, since you are Imole? Electricity is an expensive commodity in the Nigerian economy, so are you hoping to do something about it despite it’s usually in the federal government’s purview?

That’s what I’m trying to tell you, we have four electricity projects that we have on the ground now, as a matter of fact, we are the most distant giving generating electricity into the Nigerian grade, as I’m talking to you,

So, as a family you have companies?

Yes, we have a company, pacific energy

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And so how do you hope to transpose that for Osun State?

Yes, with our partner and everything we bring them because Osogbo has… so, we will tap from that, I’m already talking to people. let me tell you something, even the governor of Edo state, we’ve already started talking that he wants us to do something about that, so we’re going to do something, I’m on that too

So, you’re promising the people of Osun State stable, 24-hour electricity?

No, it might not be 24 hours, because I’m not going to lie, it’s not easy to get 24 hours now but what I’m saying constant electricity, but there’s nothing wrong with 24 hours, it could be done, it could be achievable but we’ll try from somewhere to have stable electricity

Now the economy of the state, how do you hope to change things around, how do you hope to generate income, the IGR, what are your plans, what are you thinking in that direction?

Like I said before to generate the IGR, we will invest in agriculture, agriculture is going to be the priority, we will invest in agriculture because you see we have fertile land in Osun state. Anything can grow, even lemon can grow here in Nigeria, then I can invite the Zimbabweans, they are very good in farming, we’ll invite them to come and invest here, so agriculture is going to be one of our agenda to improve, of course, our economy and bring investors.

There’s a very huge backlog of old pension and salary, it even transcends this immediate administration of Governor Oyetola there’s been a lot of backlogs, now you are going to be inheriting some part of that (of course) how do you or not to offend pensioners whom governor are owing already or workers, how do you plan not to owe workers a salary?

Okay, well like I said before paying salary I don’t think that’s an achievement. If people work you must pay them, it’s what you bring to the table, like the economy, improve your IGR, that’s what you can call your achievement. When I was debating with Governor Oyetola, the outgoing governor, he said “I paid salaries”… I said, please, please, please, paying a salary is not an achievement, what have you brought to improve the economy?

Cut-in: Maybe if it is bankrupt if people are been owed salaries for a lot of months, several months of unpaid salaries (yeah) it could be an achievement. They made the lives of those people better, their families would be happy that they were bringing money back home

Well to me, I will not say it’s an achievement, if you improve the economy, if you bring you improve your IGR, you are bringing in money, everything is flowing and that’s what I would call an achievement, He was the chief of staff for eight years they said he was the one that introduced that half salary, but what I will do is that I will work with the pensioners, the retirees, we will sit down and have a meeting, okay these are the money they are owing you and everything, why they cannot pay them is that a lot of our money is going outside.

What do you mean by going outside?

What I meant by outside is that a lot of our money they will take it back to Lagos or somewhere I don’t know, so, I will block that leakages, the problem is that when somebody wants to run for governor, you go and borrow something or you have one godfather that will borrow you money and at the end of the day you’ll be paying debts, you will not be able to do anything anymore. So it’s not right, I will block all those leakages and of course, there are so many intelligent people in Osun here, we will do direct labour, it can be done for the next three years, do direct labour, fix the road, infrastructure and all that and then improving the economy, so I would call the pensioners and say look, is going to be open, this is where they owe you, I’m going to start here, so by blocking all those leakages, I would have a lot of money to make sure….. I can even use some of the money for security too, I can either turn it around or schedule our debts and all that and then pay them on time and until something will come up and then.

Because you’re going to inherit some debt also (I know, I will because the government is a continuous process) does that scare you?

I’m not scared about it.

Will you be borrowing?

Well, if I’m going to borrow, I will utilise it, if it’s like grants, grants are not much but I prefer to get grants to fix the roads or to do grants on education and all that, and I will avoid because already we’ve been indebted, we’ve been indebted a lot.

So now there are some key phrases that we resonate with the people of Osun state when they remember or when they hear some of these phrases it means something to them and as their new governor they would like to know what these means or how you react to some of these phrases first is the issue of security, this phrase I mean security is a major issue how do you react to that kind of phrase, what does it mean to you, what would you do?

Well, when I was in the Senate, I pushed out a motion on community policing and of course, I’m talking about state police and so community policing is very important. When I was growing up, even in Ede here, there’s neighbourhood watch, they call it community policing, so we see all the hunters, ‘Odes’ and everything like that by 9, 10 o’clock they block the roads and they make sure they check you, where are you going this and that, so that community policing will be back again and with through the help of our Obas and everybody because everybody knows each other in their neighbourhood. So, if a strange person comes in they know. They use to do that even in America too, they call it neighbourhood watch everybody knows each other and everything. You can arrest, you can do this and everything, so community policing, and I’ll bring it back because the federal government cannot do it alone. I will make sure that I buy some equipment for the police, I will join the task force with police, army, civil defence, and even Amotekun, but I will retrain Amotekun, and I will make sure that they are well equipped. I will retrain them too and everything like that, so all those will join together so that our bank will have rest of mind. Now some banks close at noon because they’re scared of armed robbers and everything like that, so we’ll retrain them, put some army, put them together they’ll join taskforce, I don’t know the name that we will give them but later, we’ll come up with that, so security is very, very important. For investors to come in, you must assure them that their lives will be safe, and the security will be safe. We’ll buy the equipment and as I said, I’m still talking about the surveillance that’s why, I asked the governor, where is our helicopter? Because you owe the Osun people what you call accountability.

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What would you do to the helicopter, would you sell it to buy a new one?

Well, I don’t know the condition of the helicopter, we have to find out what happened to the helicopter, but if it is still in good shape, he said they are fixing it, I hope it’s in good shape. It is very good for surveillance because if you see maybe if any robbery or something is going on here, once they see helicopter surveying the area and everything they will just run away because you can hit from the top there, so surveillance is very important, that is my area as a criminologist. So, I’m a security expert.

So, another very important phrase that will also mean something to the people of Osun state is the word unemployment, what would you have to say, specifically to the issue of unemployment when the people of Osun state hear that word and they are hoping that you will react to that kind of word, what would you like to tell them?

I’ll tell them that, we’ll make sure we create jobs, because I think unemployment has increased, if I’m not mistaken and I’m sure, I’m right, 96 percent unemployment, that’s terrible, it’s going to take a lot of work, I have a lot of work coming for me, on unemployment. We’ll create more jobs including agriculture too, we will bring it in, and when you create more jobs a lot of people will start getting jobs. Can you imagine the present administration we talked about it during the debate they asked people to come and collect the form and they collected money from them, collected money from poor people? They said they would give 30,000 jobs to teachers, these and that, they collected money, within the line in two years only one thousand the rest of them that they collected their money, as that is not fair that’s why I said, if you want to be a leader or a governor or wherever you are, you must have the fear of God

I’d like to ask you after this victory what is next

Next is to promise my Osun people that voted for me, first of all, Osun, I love you, voted for me in 2018 and I told you that I’m coming back so that we can work together to retrieve your stolen mandate and you have retrieved your stolen mandate yesterday, I love you so much, I thank you and I promise you, I will not disappoint you, all my campaign promises, I will fulfil it and I will make life better field for Osun, Osun money will stay in Osun, everything that I’ve said that I will do, God help me, I will do it for you, I will not disappoint you Osun people.

As you close this conversation, I would like to ask you, after being the governor of Osun state or trying to enter into office as the governor of Osun state, what would you say you would like to leave as a mark in the life of the people or the kind of legacy you would like to leave for Osun people?

I would like to leave a legacy that improved the lives of the Osun people, I have to leave a mark that Osun is great again, in terms of a close gap so that unemployment will be reduced so that we would not have a lot of kids roaming around the street, I have to leave a mark of entertainment, culture in our state, so that they will remember that, and I have to leave a mark that education is very important. I’ll declare a state of emergency on education, infrastructure, and agriculture, and of course, I would have to leave a mark that if you go to the state hospital, that is our primary, they call it secondary but that’s our focus in the state.

“There’s what they call “Orimi ja fun mi” “mo joko mi jeje, orimi de ja” (laughing) So, that was what happened, they fell out and that’s towards my advantage, and it has paved way for me to victory too