FORMER GOVERNOR AMOSUN IS ARCHITECT OF OWN POLITICAL CALAMITY, SAYS ALANI BANKOLE

The father of the former Speaker House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole pointed out that, never care  to reasonable to take to cautions and suggestions from well-meaning peoples surrounding him, as his administration lasted.

Penpushing further reports that, the 79 year old Bankole said Amosun was not a listening Governor, adding that while these anomalies lasted, nobody could  persuade him to adopt options different from his, adding that from his assessment of Amosun and his predecessor,  Gbenga Daniel, the immediate past Governor was the worst.

The Egba High Chief, cited example when the immediate past Governor, Amosun approved installation of 75 traditional rulers in a swoop, a development he described as ‘pure madness’, also lamenting that in the last four or more years, the immediate past administration of Governor Amosun spent the State’s resources only on two  Local Governments at the expense of  18 others.

 Penpushing also reports that,Bankole who is  Oluwo of Iporo Ake declared that, this was one of the reason why he(Bankole) will not support any call for restructuring that could confer enormous power to the States and Local Governments in the country, adding that should that happened, nobody would be able to tame or hold State Governors and Local Government Chairmen accountable

The former Chairman of West African Aluminum Products(WAAP)  while comparing administration of Amosun with his predecessor, Daniel posited that, “Daniel has turned out to be an angel in comparison with Amosun”,expressing  fears over what he considered as an emerging pattern in Ogun State where the incumbent end up worse than the predecessor at the exit gate.

The political warlord prayed that Governor Adedapo Abiodun could learn from the history of his predecessors and “change the curve’, and also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to return the country to the parliamentary system of government if he meant business with his anti – corruption crusade.

 Penpushing reports that, Bankole  said  the Presidential system being practiced today in the country has not only reversed the nation’s gains from the previous Parliamentary system, but also choking since it is prone to an endemic corruption and wastage of resources.

Bankole  noted that if Buhari could just return the country to the parliamentary system, it would be his “biggest and best gift” to Nigerians,  lamenting that the nation’s politicians are not matured or cultured for Presidential system.

He urged the President to restructure the country along the path of reverting to Parliament system and make himself the “last President of Nigeria” as panacea to the country’s sundry challenges, emphasizing that,”the best gift President  Buhari can give to Nigeria if truly he wants to fight corruption which I believe he is fighting, is for him to revert the Presidential system to the parliamentary system of government’. 

“The Presidential system has concentrated too much power in the hands of the President. Also those practising politics in Nigeria are not ripe enough to practice the Presidential system of government. If Nigeria is restructured by giving more power to the state government, in my opinion, it will only worsen the system.

How do we explain in the case of Ogun state where all the resources of the State has been spent on only two local government, what then happen to the rest of the 18 local governments?  Therefore, if President Buhari wants to be remembered, he should return our system of government to parliamentary system’.

‘He should be the last President. Honestly, Nigeria is going to the point of collapse and the only thing that can be done to rescue the situation is for the President to go back to the parliamentary system of government” ,he added