AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR AKEREDOLU, by: Meduoye Adeyinka

                       

                 AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR AKEREDOLU


As the era of new epoch unfolds like a flash of illuminated lightening, the euphoria of victory might have withered in the face of daunting challenges, in which your political triumph at the historic poll underscored a fulfilling audacity of courage.

The popularity and salient acceptability of your political personalities and antecedent among the electorate remains intact and unharmed like never before, which in turn birthed the unalloyed support from the citizens of Ondo State, as your emergence was massively realistic.

Considering the fact that "Path Function" plays a vital role in attaining a "State Function" enveloped in positivity and productivity doesn't place it higher than the latter especially on the screen of governmental scrutiny. Sir, you must have inherited the power and prestige of the State gubernatorial seat, but it will be pertinent on your side to note that you have also inherited the burden of governance in a highly enlightened and sophisticated State where voters and citizens are thirsty for dividends of democracy.

In furtherance of this, it is consequential to dance to the promise made to them as highlighted in your pre-election manifesto, as it will be difficult for any elected politician to escape the electoral wrath of Ondo voters.

The positive results of your administration layouts are manifesting at slow pace but the overall happiness that will be appreciated by citizens of Ondo State cometh as soon as the confidence reposed in you will not be betrayed, but you must understand that time is exigent for a wound to heal.

Writing this is an unprecedented but concerned citizen whose billets of his mind shall continue to be express via writing, as the ink of my pen shall never seize to dry up. The paramount reason for this writing boils down to the outrage hike of tuition fee in AAUA, which thoroughly hearkens my heart upon stumbling on it.

Reeling on sincerity, it was indeed laughable when the administration under your leadership tagged the present AAUA tuition fee as not being able to buy a "Pair of Shoe". The fact that you can plausibly get what you need following your financial status doesn't aid in placing others in derailment. Generalizing others people situations by your very own present situation is character killing.

Yes, I had refuse to be a product of conformity, as I never choose to pitch my tent at the side of mediocrity. Confidence flows in my bloodstream like a free-flowing water down a hill cliff.

Mr. Governor Sir, since the announcement of the fee hike in AAUA by your administration, I have had every reason to think about the rationale in the tuition fee hike. What could make a so-called "Progressive" government hike the tuition fee of her tertiary institution? The tuition fees were hike from #30,000 to #180,000. I keep pondering over the rationale.

Sir, as part of your ideological premises to promote Democratic ethos in Ondo State, I had vividly recalled a paragraph of your post-election speech which goes thus, "On education, my administration shall promote functional education therein providing conducive atmosphere for learning". The place of education can never be relegated but promoted in the political league for the development of a State. How on earth will a State government hike tuition fees without considering the inability of her downtrodden citizens to pay?  Even at a juncture where it finds it difficult to increase minimum wage.

Sir, I urged you to awake your consciousness that education is a panacea for ignorance and illiteracy, then the knowledge acquired through education should be well utilized for the utmost benefit for the State at large. The diversification of knowledge will serve a good purpose in creating employment  opportunities be it: in agriculture, manufacturing, information and communication technology. But it is unfortunate that the hike in tuition fee will be an insurmountable mountain to overcome, for the downtrodden to send their children to tertiary institution.

Mr. Governor Sir, it is consequential to cede that worthy education seems to impacts morality, attitudinal dynamics and logical reasoning on sane minds, but this can only be accessible through affordable education. A corrupt mind will always tilt towards violence as there is no alternative to peace when disagreement occurs, but education teaches that grey areas be properly dissected with the hope of peaceful resolutions.

A daily struggles of humans to accomplish needs for survival attune to our inclinations for peace but most of us are not mindful of this assertion in the real sense of evaluation. Sir, kindly soak your center of reasoning that is, the mind in an imaginative realm of the out crying downtrodden to see if you will be capacitated to embrace the financial scourge which had erupted from the breaking news of the purported hike fee. I am sure you will combat that if you were in their shoes?

To a great extent, poverty troubles the mind as the simple summation of negativities in our society clearly expose majority of young people involve in flurry of immoralities as a result of knowledge deficiency, most especially in a society where the affluent continually oppress the middle class and downtrodden.

The students' populace and the downtrodden shall in great delight swing their banner of joy higher into the aura of jubilation, if you would have a rethink into modernity by abruptly reversing the educational policy which might have enclosed the fabric of hike tuition fee.

As your administration seems to achieve an unprecedented feat by shape-shifting the governmental policies of the State to an ideally perfect state; especially in its social, political and moral aspects. I urge you to see to the cry of the students' populace and the downtrodden.

Thanks, as you continue to have a blissful tenure in office.

God bless you
God bless Ondo State Students
God bless Ondo State
God bless Nigeria


         Meduoye Adeyinka